Serbia has been accused of manipulating data in a bid to play down its air pollution problem.
A few months earlier, a real-time worldwide ranking put the capital Belgrade in the world s worst top five cities for PM 2.5 air pollution.
Now, say activists, the new government (elections were held last June) is doing everything it can to downplay the issue.
Pollution chief sacked after data spat
In December, Milenko Jovanovic was fired as head of the air quality department at the Serbian Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA).
The official reason for sacking him after 17 years of service was because he opposed his superiors and Serbia s air quality monitoring stations were not properly maintained. Jovanovic and other experts say the latter claim is untrue.
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