The Office of the Organized Crime Prosecutor has indicted former director of the Republic Fund of Health Insurance Svetlana Vukajlovic and three of her associates on suspicion that they caused a EUR 1.25 million loss in the state budget through an illegal acquisition of swine flu vaccines in 2009.

The three other indictees besides Vukajlovic are former Jugohemija director Smiljka Mileusnic-Adzic, head of Jugohemija Farmacija Vladimir Gravar and Detap director Ljubomir Pavicevic, Organized Crime Prosecutor Miljko Radisavljevic told Tanjug on Friday.

According to him, the indictment was raised on February 14, with all of the indictees being accused of abuse of office, for which the penalty is 2-12 years in prison.

The court has decided to keep all of the indictees in custody because of extremely serious circumstances of the crime, which disturbed the public.

Vukajlovic, Gravar and Pavicevic were arrested on September 19, while Mileusnic-Adzic, sister of former vice-president of Delta Holding Milka Forcan, was arrested three months later.