Vladan Batić ( sr, Владан Батић; 27 July 1949 – 29 December 2010) was a Serbian lawyer and politician. He served as the

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in the

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from 2001 until 2004.

Education and career

He graduated from the

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, where he eventually obtained doctorate. In 2001, Batić announced that warrants would be issued for the arrests of persons removed from power during the

overthrow of Slobodan Milošević The overthrow of Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, began after the presidential election on 24 September and culminated in the downfall of Slobodan Milošević's government on 5 October 2000. It is sometimes referred to as the 5 Oct ...

in October 2000 and who were suspected of misconduct through abuse of power. It was this campaign which eventually led to the surrender of

Slobodan Milošević Slobodan Milošević (, ; 20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the president of Serbia within Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1997 (originally the Socialist Republic of Serbia, a constituent republic of ...

to police as an alternative to forced arrest, and the first step to his extradition to the ICTY. In 2004 he ran for Serbian Presidency in the

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. At the time of his death Batić was the President of the

Christian Democratic Party of Serbia The Christian Democratic Party of Serbia ( sr, Демохришћанска Странка Србије, Demohrišćanska Stranka Srbije; abbr. ДХСС, DHSS) was a political party in Serbia. History The party was founded in 1997 by Vladan Ba ...

and since 2007 a Member of Parliament as a part of his party's bloc formed with their coalition partner the Liberal Democratic Party. Batić reappeared in international news media spotlight when he testified before a

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court that billions of dollars belonging to the

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had been smuggled out of the country by the ousted Milošević administration during the UN sanctions on the country, by use of offshore corporations in

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registered by the former law office of the

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leader,

Tassos Papadopoulos Efstathios "Tassos" Nikolaou Papadopoulos ( el, Ευστάθιος (Τάσσος) Νικολάου Παπαδόπουλος; 7 January 1934 – 12 December 2008) was a Cypriot politician and barrister who served as the fifth president of Cyp ...

. Batić had been pursuing the affair since 2002. Batić died on 29 December 2010 from

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1949 births 2010 deaths People from Obrenovac Christian Democratic Party of Serbia politicians University of Belgrade Faculty of Law alumni Politicians of Eastern Orthodox political parties Deaths from esophageal cancer Deaths from cancer in Serbia Candidates for President of Serbia Justice ministers of Serbia {{Serbia-politician-stub