25. 12. 2013

ILIC NOT PAYING FINE BECAUSE OF LATIN SCRIPT

Cacak, December 25, 2013 ( Beta ) - A court in Cacak annulled an enforcement order for payment of court fines by Velimir Ilic, because the lawyer of journalist Vladimir Jesic used in Latin script in writing the trial brief.

The Basic Court in Cacak returned the case to the first instance court for retrial on the grounds that it is not in accordance with the Law on Civil Procedures and the Constitution of Serbia, where Serbian language and Cyrillic script are specified as an official language and script, is written in the ruling to which agency Beta had access.

The president of the court council that made ​​this decision was judge Gordana Suluburic, and judges were Tatjana Kandic and Svetlana Mitrovic.

Legal representative of journalist Vladimir Jesic, Dragica Horovic said in October that Minister for Civil Engineering in the Government of Serbia, Velimir Ilic is not paying compensation to her client, although there is a final court ruling ordered Ilic to pay Jesic 1.3 million dinars.

The court issued a final ruling in which Ilic must pay Jesic 1.3 million, because the politician during the recording of an interview for Novi Sad television Apolo in 2003, at the premises of the New Serbia (party) in Belgrade kicked, insulted, swore at, and tried physically to attack him.

Dragica Horovic told Beta then that there were "unexplainable" difficulties in the collection of funds, due to the fact that the court in Cacak on 19 June approved a decision on forced execution and sent it to the addresses of Ilic's ministry and the Government of Serbia.

According to this decision, the relevant payout cashier is obliged to remove two-thirds of Ilic`s earnings at the ministry, but as of June it has not acted  according to the court decision, said Dragica Horovic.

Former journalist Vladimir Jesic told Beta that this case is yet another indication of how the ministers in the government are "arrogant" because they do not recognize court rulings.

"If the court has determined that Ilic has kicked me, and he claims the opposite, it is clear how absurd it is to expect any of them to obey the laws, and we can expect them to repeat the same things, and especially attacks against journalists," said Jesic.

He added that the money from the ruling will be paid for charity to help the Center for Children and Youth with Special Needs in Veternik.

He recalled that the he filed criminal charges against Ilic for the same case, but Ilic then used parliamentary immunity and thus "avoided" trial .

Jesic reminded that the bully who attacked Ilic in 2010 on the streets of Belgrade was soon arrested and later sentenced to two years in prison.