On February 17, 2010, Serbian police in Belgrade arrested the director of the Rade Neimar Building Center of the Diocese of Raska and Prizren, Predrag Suboticki -- a close associate of dismissed Bishop Artemije -- according to the Raska-Prizren blog.
Suboticki was arrested on suspicion of illegally appropriating about 300,000 euros that were given to him without a receipt for monastery reconstruction. The Rade Neimar company was engaged in reconstruction and rebuilding of monasteries in Kosovo and Metohja from 2004 to 2009.
Suboticki is the kum (that is, the best man or godfather) of the brother of Simeon Vilovski, Bishop Artemije's secretary, who is believed to have fled to avoid arrest.
On February 13, 2010, the Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church replaced Bishop Artemije from administering the Diocese of Raska and Prizren on suspicion that there are financial irregularities in the operation of the Diocese. Atanasije Jevtic has been appointed Bishop Administrator.
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