Saric trial: court to call Vucic and Parezanovic
Judge Vladan Ivankovic said the former president of Serbia and a Security Information Agency member will testify in Darko Saric's retrial for laundering 20 million euros.
Former Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic and Marko Parezanovic of the Security Information Agency (BIA) will be called as witnesses in the retrial of Darko Saric for money laundering. Vladan Ivankovic, the presiding judge of the panel in the Special Department of the Higher Court in Belgrade, announced the decision on November 10, 2026, and an Insajder reporter was the first to report it.
Once the decision was read out, all the defendants left the courtroom and only their lawyers stayed behind. The sources give no reason. They also do not say who proposed the witnesses, the defense or the prosecution, or on what date they would testify.
What is Saric on trial for?
Saric and the other defendants are accused of laundering at least 20 million euros earned from selling cocaine. The indictment was filed in 2010, which makes this one of the longest-running cases in the Special Department’s history.
In 2020, the court of first instance sentenced Saric to nine years in prison. Judge Sinisa Petrovic, then the presiding judge, said it had been established beyond doubt that the money Saric controlled came from cocaine sales and that the verdict rested on a large body of evidence. Two years later, in 2022, the Court of Appeals overturned the verdict, finding it unclear and contradictory, and sent the case back for a retrial.
What did Radar publish about Saric’s messages?
Alongside the news of the panel’s decision, N1 recalls a story by the weekly Radar, based on Sky messages. According to the paper, while in detention at the Special Court, Saric wrote to his brother Dusko Saric and his relative Zeljko Vujanovic: “We call Vucic Oskar” and “Cvarak is Oskar”. Radar also claims that these nicknames refer to Aleksandar Vucic, and that Vucic’s brother and son were in contact with Saric’s associates. N1 reports these claims as originating with Radar. None of the three sources we read links the panel’s decision to these reports, and Vucic’s response to them appears in none of the texts.
We previously reported that students are demanding an investigation of Vucic over the Sky correspondence; at that time there was no court decision to call witnesses.
Who is Marko Parezanovic in this story?
Marko Parezanovic’s name appeared earlier in a document published by KRIK. It is a police report dated April 15, 2022, which names Nebojsa Stefanovic and Parezanovic as helpers of the Saric clan. Parezanovic denied any ties, and prosecutors did not open an investigation against them.
What the witnesses will tell the panel, and when, is not yet known. The panel has decided to call them, but no date has been announced for the hearing at which Vucic and Parezanovic would appear in court.
