Zvezdan Terzić

Zvezdan Terzić ( Serbian Cyrillic Звездан Терзић; born May 21, 1966 in Titov Vrbas, today Vrbas, SFR Yugoslavia ) is a former Yugoslav football player who played mainly for OFK Belgrade. He was between 2005 and 2008, the President of the Football Association of Serbia and Montenegro, or since the dissolution of the State Union 2006 ( FSSCG ) of the Serbian Football Association (FSS ). From this position he resigned under pressure from the Serbian public and an arrest warrant. Prior to 2005 he was president of the club OFK Belgrade.

Controversies

Because of accusations of abuse of office presented the Serbian Ministry of Interior in March 2008, an arrest warrant against Terzić. On March 12, he entered, due to the growing public pressure officially resigned from his post. According to police, he allegedly made ​​an illegal profit of 500,000 euros converted to a transfer as a sports official at League OFK Belgrade. Terzić was since 2006 and President of the Association but shall be according to media reports have been abroad since January. In 2008, he was allegedly arrested in Montenegro, where he was but was released under controversial circumstances. For his release, the Montenegrin government is said to have made ​​strong.

In April, Belgrade called for an investigation and custody of Terzić on suspicion of embezzling from the transfer of Vanja Grubač for Hamburger SV. In July an international warrant for his arrest was issued. The Serbian police were in August with new allegations against Terzić, as he should have purchased when changing from Srdjan Stanic from OFK Belgrade to Spartak Moscow illegally a large sum of money. In December the court proceedings against Terzić was extended because he was suspected of embezzling together with the officials of the OFK Belgrade Milovan Ikodinović and Vladimir Bulatović and players' agents Dražen Podunavac of transfers of Branislav Ivanović to Lokomotiv Moscow and Stevan Stošić to FC Malaga, further sums have to. After nearly three years on the run to Terzić in 2010 was accompanied by his lawyer of the Serbian police. During his escape, he should have stayed in Montenegro and the USA. He faced a total of 12 years in prison. By his own account he presented himself because he wanted to prove his innocence. He accused among other things of the old government that they wanted to oust him by the allegations. After seven months of detention, he was released on bail in the amount of one million euros. The court imposed no house arrest, nor was confiscated his passport; a decision that came into the public incomprehension.

Since none of the preloaded witnesses, including the players involved in the transfers (including Marko Baša ), had appeared in court to testify, the procedure for lack of evidence has been suspended. Although Terzić was in a current judicial proceeding, he was appointed in 2012 to the President of the club OFK Belgrade, which led to public criticism. Beginning of 2013 he was elected unanimously as President of the Association of Serbian first division and was according to media reports thus automatically also for guiding the Serbian Football Association president Tomislav Karadžić under the Terzić criticized before. Both are in a conflict, as well as under heavy criticism of the Serbian public for some time. Shortly thereafter denied Terzić that he belonged to the leadership circle of the FSS. The circumstances of the election led to further public criticism and accusations of cronyism.