Tamara Laptos, the first deputy to the head of the Office for the Suppression of Corruption and Organised Crime (USKOK), has won the Prosecutor of the Year award at the 16th annual conference of the International Association of Prosecutors (IAP) in Seoul.
This is a new award the IAP introduced this year to recognise and encourage those who have shown outstanding performance domestically and internationally in the fight against crime including corruption, cyber crimes, drug-related crimes and organised crimes, USKOK reported on Monday.
Laptos, nominated for the award by the Office of the Chief State Prosecutor, has been the prosecutor in several cases against former Deputy Prime Minister Damir Polancec and in a case dubbed Index in which several university professors, students and other people were convicted of bribery.
