“Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.”
Franz Kafka, “The Trial”
NIKOLA LAĆARAC
News that Tomislav Đorđević was in investigative prison, which I only heard a few days ago, was an extremely unpleasant surprise.
I remember Tom from the time when we were comrades. Friendship and cooperation started with the Winter Universiade in Czechoslovakia, where his company Iskra Delta provided IT support. My company Agrovojvodina-Interkop was the foreign trade partner with a significant representative office in Prague.
Our relationship, in business and as friends, continued over the following years, when Tom formed Yuco Group, and as part of it Yuco Bank. Back then I was the Vice Governor of the National Bank of Vojvodina, and given the nature of my work I had continuous contact with him as well as the management of Yuco Bank.
We kept business and friendly relations all the way up to my retirement, that is, up to the recapitalization of Meridian Bank and its acquisition by Credit Agricole – France.
I sincerely expect that our reformed judiciary quickly puts an end to this case, though such a long investigation procedure already does not promise the expected progress.
Nikola Laćarac, pensioner, and previously:
Deputy Secretary in the Executive Council of Vojvodina
Director of the State Directorate for Commodity Reserves of Vojvodina
Vice-Governor of the National Bank of Vojvodina
Deputy General Manager of National bank of SRJ branch
Deputy General Manager of the National Bank of Serbia, Novi Sad branch
Novi Sad, 24.03.2011.
Business Partners:
Ljubivoje Nikolić, Slobodan Pejović, “Tomić” printing, Mirjana Soro, Ferenc Kasa, Srboljub Đurić, Brane Pajić, Dušan Erdeljan, Živojin Janić, a group of enterpreneurs, Dušan Bokić, Slavko Gabrić, Geza Bleskanj, Veselin Šibul, Bogdan Rokvić, Branislav Rosić
Colleagues:
Jovan Cvetković, Dušan Tadić, Janez Škrubej, Slavoljub Pajkić, Stanka Radaković, Zlatica Nikačević, Đorđe Mitrović, Biljana Simić, Miladin Savić, Miroslav Fodora, Mirjana Srijemac, Dragutin Čop, Blažena Anđelić, Damjan Korda, Gordana Tešić, Dragan Stojanović, Dragan Radujko, Ivko Stojković, Igor Kizur, Željko Jakšić, Zdravko Josipović, Vladislav Hadžija, Robert Hep, Saša Krajnović, Radivoje Nikačević, Veselin Ristić, Branislav Radomirović, Aleksandar Divljak
Others:
Marijana Carić, group of classmates, Nikola Laćarac, Dragan Kosanović, Municipality of Mali Iđoš officials, Ivan Kopić, „Top 10 in Vojvodina“, Gordana Radosavac, Zoran Trajković
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