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Zlatibor Lončar | |
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Златибор Лончар | |
| Minister of Health | |
| Assumed office 27 April 2014 | |
| Prime Minister | Aleksandar Vučić |
| Preceded by | Slavica Đukić Dejanović |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 3 August 1971 Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Nationality | Serbian |
| Children | 1 |
| Occupation | Doctor, politician |
Zlatibor Lončar (Serbian Cyrillic: Златибор Лончар) is a Serbian doctor and politician. He serves as a minister of Health in the Government of Serbia from 27 April 2014.
Education and career
After finishing primary and secondary school in Belgrade, he enrolled at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, which he finished in 1997. In 1998, he started the specialization of general surgery and finished in 2003. In 2008, he enrolled in a PhD in Medical Epidemiology.[1]
From 2012, he served as a director of the Belgrade Emergency Center, Clinical Centre of Serbia and from 2013 as the Head of Transplantation department.[1]
Minister of Health
On April 27, 2014, following the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election he was appointed as the minister of Health in the first cabinet of Aleksandar Vučić.[1] After the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election, he remained as part of the second cabinet of Aleksandar Vučić.
Accusations on criminal connection
According to the testimonies of several Zemun Clan members, Lončar had close relationship with the head of the criminal group Dušan Spasojević.
According to the 2004 testimony of the cooperative witness Dejan Milenković Bagzi (who was a prominent member of the Zemun Clan) in the Zoran Đinđić trial, in Serbian Special Court for Organised Crime: in 2002 Belgrade-based Rakovica Clan tried to eliminate the Montenegrin criminal Veselin Božović Vesko, but he survived the assassination and was transferred to the Clinical Centre of Serbia in which at that time worked Lončar.[2] Allegedly, he had good chances to survive and his condition was stable.[2] According to Milenković, head of the criminal group Dušan Spasojević who also had interest of Božović's death, asked group member doctor Risović to finish him in the hospital, but he was having second thoughts. Later, Lončar confessed to Spasojević that he gave him lethal injection and Božović died shortly after.[2] For the reward, Spasojević gave him apartment in New Belgrade. Officially, ten days after Božović's death, Lončar bought the apartment from the wife of Zemun Clan hitman Sretko Kalinić for 30,000 euros only to re-sell it months later.[2] Miladin Suvajdžić, another cooperative witness and former special member of the Zemun Clan, in his 2006 testimony confirmed the story of Milenković; one of the main roles of Suvajdžić was to buy properties, vehicles for various of reasons. At the time of testimonies, Lončar denied these allegations and was never prosecuted.[2]
In 2005, convicted Zemun Clan member Milomir Kaličanin testified that many police officers, footballers and doctors Lončar and Risović often came to Zemun Clan headquarters.[3]
In January 2017, following the political battle with former ally Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić and alleged assassination attempt, Serbian politician Velimir Ilić showed media several photos of Lončar and notorious Zemun Clan now deceased head Dušan Spasojević,[4] along with other criminal members and footballers Dragoljub Jeremić and Danko Lazović who were interrogated during the Operation Sabre.[5][3] The photos were taken in period prior to the Zemun Clan assassination of Zoran Đinđić, while Lončar was studying for specialization thesis in general surgery.
Serbian Prime Minister Vučić backed minister saying that Lončar told by him that: "the photo was taken after Lončar completed surgery on Spasojević's father and later called him to a nearby café to thank him".[6] Ilić replied saying that the specialization students can not operate surgeries.[7]
References
- ^ a b c "Biografije članova nove Vlade Srbije". b92.net (in Serbian). 27 April 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
- ^ a b c d e Dojčinović, Stevan; Petrović, Pavle (22 February 2016). "Ministar Lončar u stanu zemunskog klana". KRIK.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 27 January 2017.
- ^ a b Pavlović, Bojana (26 January 2017). "Lončar sa fudbalerima u Šilerovoj". KRIK.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 27 January 2017.
- ^ "Velimir Ilić pokazao fotografiju ministra Lončara sa vođom zemunskog klana". KRIK.rs (in Serbian). 23 January 2017. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
- ^ "Ilić pokazao novu fotografiju Lončara, navodno iz Šilerove". n1info.com (in Serbian). 26 January 2017. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
- ^ J., V. (25 January 2017). "Vučić i dalje veruje Lončaru". danas.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 27 January 2017.
- ^ "Velimir Ilić: Nisam kupio slike od fudbalera, našao sam ih". b92.net (in Serbian). 27 January 2017. Retrieved 27 January 2017.