The president of Serbia’s Anti-Corruption Council has asked Vojislav Kostunica to investigate the legality of the situation in the Keramika company.

Verica Barac, in a letter to the prime minister, alleges that the behaviour of police, who have six times prevented the implementation of a court decision allowing the majority owner of the company into the premises indicates the possibility of corruption.

Barac cites this and other privatisation cases, notably the Jugoremedija pharmaceuticals firm, examined by the council as demonstrating a failure to respect the law and contracts, endangering the basic rights of citizens to security of business and private property.