What is the ‘evil’?

Quick reminder what caused the protests that have been going on in Serbia since November 2024.

Three weeks ago, six people, including a former Serbian minister, were arrested on Friday over their involvement in reconstruction of a railway station in Serbia’s Novi Sad, whose roof collapsed last November killing 16 and triggering Serbia’s biggest anti-government protests in decades.

… The six are suspected of inflating invoices from a consortium of the two Chinese companies - China Railway International Co and China Communications Construction Co - who were given the task of reconstructing both the railway station at Novi Sad and tracks, the [official] statement said.

They are suspected of damaging the state budget by $115.6 million, the statement said, and also said that by inflating invoices the Chinese consortium benefited by $18.8 million, but gave no further details …