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Serbia nabs motorway toll fraud ring

Police have arrested 43 people on suspicion of embezzling millions of dollars in toll money on Serbia's main motorway. Serbia's Investment Minister Velimir Ilic said police were planning more arrests in a crackdown on a large group of people who worked on

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Serbia landslides cause $18m in damages

Landslides and floods have swept large areas of central Serbia, wrecking about 1,000 houses and leaving thousands of villagers homeless.

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According to my assessment in counties across the country, about 200 houses were destroyed, about 500 were in a critical stage and 700 were seriously damaged. Repair and construction work for these houses is assessed at 15 million euros
Serbia landslides cause $18m in damages Mar 28, 2006

Velimir "Velja" Ilić (Serbian: Велимир "Веља" Илић, born on May 28, 1951 in Čačak) is Serbian politician and a former Minister of Capital Investments in the Serbian government in the cabinet of Vojislav Koštunica.

After graduating from University of Belgrade's Faculty of Technology (Department of Construction Materials), he worked for various construction firms, and then became a private entrepreneur in 1986.

In 2005, he obtained his Masters Degree from the University of Kragujevac. His qualification was granted by an academic supervisory board entirely composed of officials of his own New Serbia party. The academics who granted his degree stated they acted purely as academics in this case and not as party officials under the leadership of their student.

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