The Serbian Prosecutor's Office for the Fight against Organized Crime has officially announced the arrest of the owner of the bank Alta Davor Metzura and two bank employees. According to the investigators, Matsoura, with the help of the treasury manager and an employee in charge of cash transactions, gained unauthorized access to a bank vault and withdrew approximately 45 billion dinars (approximately 384 million euros).
Mitzura was detained this morning after the police searched the premises of Alta Bank for more than 30 hours.
Early Saturday morning, the National Bank of Serbia revoked the bank's operating license and started bankruptcy proceedings. According to the announcement of the National Bank of Serbia, the financial condition of the bank has deteriorated significantly and the interests of the depositors are at risk. According to the National Bank of Serbia, the bank has been in blocking mode since October 30, 2026. The Deposit Insurance Agency announced that it will guarantee the payment of insured deposits within seven working days.
A series of arrests of senior security officials, and now the owner of the country's largest bank, is connected by one fact - all these people were from the close circle of former Serbian President Vucic, who was accused of corruption and using his official position for personal gain.
The Student List bloc, whose representatives won the country's parliamentary elections, began to clean up the system of power that had developed under Vučić.