Zlatibor Lončar
| Zlatibor Lončar | |
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| Златибор Лончар | |
| Minister of Health | |
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Assumed office 27 April 2014 |
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| Prime Minister | Aleksandar Vučić |
| Preceded by | Slavica Đukić Dejanović |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
3 August 1971 Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Nationality | Serbian |
| Spouse(s) | Vesna Lončar |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | University of Belgrade |
| Occupation | Doctor, politician |
Zlatibor Lončar (Serbian Cyrillic: Златибор Лончар) is a Serbian doctor and politician. He serves as a Minister of Health in the Government of Serbia from 27 April 2014.
Lončar finished primary and secondary school in Belgrade, and later enrolled at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, which he finished in 1997. In 1998, he started the specialization of general surgery and finished in 2003. In 2008, he enrolled in a PhD in Medical Epidemiology.
From 2012, he served as a director of the Emergency Center within the Clinical Centre of Serbia and from 2013 as the Head of Transplantation department.
On April 27, 2014, following the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election he was appointed as the minister of Health in the first cabinet of Aleksandar Vučić. His appointment was heavily criticized, among others by group of doctors at the Clinical Centre of Serbia, due to the "lack of professional skills", unexplained origin of wealth and criminal connections. After the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election, he remained as part of the second cabinet of Aleksandar Vučić.
According to the testimonies of several Zemun Clan members, Lončar had close relationship with the head of the criminal group Dušan Spasojević.
According to the 2004 testimony of the cooperative witness Dejan Milenković Bagzi (who was an important member of the Zemun Clan) in the Zoran Đinđić trial, in Serbian Special Court for Organised Crime: on 5 September 2002, Belgrade-based Rakovica Clan tried to eliminate the Montenegrin criminal Veselin Božović Vesko, but he survived the assassination and was transferred to the Clinical Centre of Serbia in which at that time worked Lončar. Allegedly, he had good chances to survive and his condition was stable. According to Milenković, head of the criminal group Dušan Spasojević who also had interest of Božović's death, asked one of his insider doctors Risović to finish him in the hospital, but he was having second thoughts. Later, allegedly, another Spasojević's insider doctor, Lončar confessed to Spasojević that he gave him lethal injection and Božović died shortly after, on 7 September 2002. For the reward, Spasojević gave him apartment in New Belgrade. Officially, ten days after Božović's death, Lončar bought the apartment from the wife of Zemun Clan hitman Sretko Kalinić for 30,000 euros only to re-sell it months later. Miladin Suvajdžić, another cooperative witness and former important member of the Zemun Clan, in his 2006 testimony confirmed the story of Milenković; one of the main roles of Suvajdžić was to buy properties, vehicles for various of reasons. At the time of testimonies, Lončar denied these allegations and was never prosecuted.
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