Milan Beko

The Higher Court in Belgrade will hand down a new verdict in the retrial of a former Serbian economy minister, Predrag Bubalo, on Friday. The retrial was ordered after his earlier acquittal of charges of abuse of office was reversed.

The shooting happened at 20:10 hours CET, while the victim, 44-year-old D.M., died instantly.

The Interior Ministry said police were working on the case "intensively."

BELGRADE - The Special Department for Organised Crime of the Higher Court in Belgrade on Tuesday acquitted former Serbian minister of economy and privatisation Predrag Bubalo and several others of fraud in the 2005 sale of state-owned shares in the Port of Belgrade to the Luxembourg-based company Worldfin, owned by Serbian businessman Milan Beko.

B92 learned this on Tuesday.

The group was charged with abuses committed during the 2005 sale of state-owned shares in the Port of Belgrade (Luka Beograd) company to Luxembourg-based Worldfin, whose owner is businessman Milan Beko.

Beko, who also followed the closing arguments of the prosecution and of the defense, was in the courtroom today for the reading of the verdict.

The Higher Court in Belgrade has confirmed the indictment against Maja Adrovac, who has been charged as an accomplice in the attempted murder of Milan Beko.

Adrovac can appeal against this decision before the Court of Appeals that will rule on the indictment's validity. The trial can be scheduled only once this takes place.

Businessman Beko denies he knows who shot him

BELGRADE -- Milan Beko, who was wounded in November, has denied that he knows who shot him and that he is withholding this information from investigators.

BELGRADE - Businessman Milan Beko (53) is in a stable condition and his postoperaive recovery is going well, director of the Clinical Center of Serbia Miljko Ristic said on Monday.

It is difficult to make any prognoses but so far there are no signs to indicate the risk of developing complications, Ristic told Tanjug.

BELGRADE - Businessman Milan Beko received two gunshot wounds outside of his home in Belgrade on Friday.
Beko was ambushed and shot twice in the stomach.

His driver took him to Urgentni Centar, a hospital that only takes emergency cases, where he was immediately sent into surgery.

Milan Beko was shot with two bullets in front of his home in Belgrade on Friday afternoon and police are searching for the pepetrators of the attack.

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Businessman Beko seriously wounded in attack

BELGRADE -- Serbian businessman Milan Beko was seriously wounded when an unknown attacker shot him twice in the stomach and once in the chest....