Chinese National Held for Bribing Belgrade Border Police
Chinese national Y. Q. (23) is suspected of offering money to a border police officer during an identity check. His arrest was ordered by the Belgrade prosecutor's anti-corruption department.
A Chinese national identified only by the initials Y. Q., born in 2003, has been arrested on suspicion of offering a bribe to an officer of the Border Police Directorate. The Ministry of Interior announced on September 5 that the 23-year-old is suspected of committing the criminal offense of giving a bribe.
Y. Q. is suspected of having “offered money to a police officer of the Border Police Directorate during the identification and inspection of persons,” the Ministry of Interior said in its statement.
The arrest was carried out jointly by the Anti-Corruption Service of the Criminal Police Directorate and the Border Police Directorate, acting on the order of the Special Department for the Suppression of Corruption of the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade. That means the case has gone straight to the prosecution’s anti-corruption unit from the start, rather than through a routine police report.
The suspect has been ordered held for up to 48 hours. Once that period expires, he will be brought before the competent prosecutor along with criminal charges. Until a final verdict, the presumption of innocence applies, and for now the allegations come from the Ministry of Interior, not from a court.
The statement does not specify how much money was allegedly offered, nor where the identity check took place, meaning it is unclear whether the incident happened at a border crossing, an airport, or a checkpoint further inland. The ministry also released no photo tied to this case that day, unlike three other arrests it announced the same day with accompanying footage.
The outlet has not previously reported on this arrest, nor on earlier cases of bribery involving border police.
