BELGRADE - JULY 29, 2022 - NSTLAW / Stankovic & Partners was invited to be the exclusive country contributor to the CEE Legal Matters Comparative Legal Guide: White Collar Crime 2022 for Serbia. 

The CEE Legal Matters Comparative Legal Guide: White Collar Crime 2022 provides critical information on the legal framework regarding bribery and corruption in the CEE region. It allows for a comparison between jurisdictions as to how bribery is defined, if there is criminal liability for corporate entities, what are the sanctions and limitation periods, are there any defenses, and what is the role of anti-corruption compliance.

The team of contributors consisted of firm Partner Nenad Stankovic, Associates Mitar Simonovic and Luka Marosiuk, and Junior Associates Jelena Zivkovic and Tijana Milisic. The guide for Serbia can be downloaded here.

"We are proud of our firm's exclusive contribution to this guide and, consequentially, to legal efforts of fighting corruption and bribery in our country", says Stankovic.

Co-edited by experts at Clifford Chance, the CEE Legal Matters Comparative Legal Guide: White Collar Crime 2022 provides critical information on the legal framework regarding bribery and corruption in the CEE region. It allows for a comparison between jurisdictions as to how bribery is defined, if there is criminal liability for corporate entities, what are the sanctions and limitation periods, are there any defenses, and what is the role of anti-corruption compliance.

It comes at a particularly important time, as the guide's co-editors noted in their foreword, corruption is growing in the CEE region with Eastern Europe’s score in the Corruption Perceptions Index is the second-lowest of the regions it looked at.