Andrej Vučić | |
Native Name: | Андреј Вучић |
Native Name Lang: | sr |
Birth Place: | Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia |
Party: | Serbian Progressive Party |
Relatives: | Aleksandar Vučić (brother) |
Andrej Vučić (Serbian: Андреј Вучић) is a Serbian businessman[1] and a senior official of the Serbian Progressive Party.[2] [3] [4]
Andrej Vučić is a son of Angelina and Anđelko Vučić, and the younger brother of Aleksandar Vučić, the President of Serbia.[3] [5] [6] [7]
While working at the Institute for Manufacturing Banknotes and Coins, Andrej Vučić's identity card and his signature were allegedly stolen and used to incorporate the company Asomakum, which was a subject of discussions in the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia about frauds and subject to official prosecutorial decision in Belgrade court in 2011 due to taxes avoidance. Andrej Vučić filed a claim for stolen identity.[8]
In September 2014, during Pride parade in Belgrade, a group of gendarmes physically attacked Andrej Vučić and his bodyguards.[9]
In September 2015 five members of United States Congress (Eddie Bernice Johnson, Carlos Curbelo, Scott Perry, Adam Kinzinger, and Zoe Lofgren) have informed Vice President of the United States Joseph Biden that Andrej Vučić and his two close friends Nikola Petrovi and Zoran Korać are leading a group that smears media freedom in Serbia. They claimed that the group has strenghtened their influence and interest in energy, telecommunications, infrastracture and the major jobs in the country.
He was previously an executive of the Institute for Manufacturing Banknotes and Coins of the National Bank of Serbia[10] [11] and a former board member of KK Crvena zvezda.[12]
Former Mayor of Belgrade, Siniša Mali, claimed that his candidature for the post of mayor was the idea of Andrej Vučić.[13]