Velimir "Velja" Ilić (
Serbian: Велимир "Веља" Илић) was born on
May 28,
1951 in
Čačak,
Yugoslavia (
Serbia) and is the current Minister of Infrastructure in the Serbian government, cabinet of Prime Minister
Vojislav Koštunica.He is widely regarded as one of the more colorful figures in Serbian politics. After graduating from
University of Belgrade's Faculty of Technology (Department of Construction Materials), he worked for various construction firms, and then became a private entrepreneur in
1986.In
2005, he obtained his Masters Degree from the
University of Kragujevac. His qualification was granted by an academic supervisory board entirely composed of officials of his own
New Serbia party. Criticism pointing to obvious conflict of interest and breach of academic standards was characterized by him and his supporters as malicious campaigning against him. The academics who granted his degree stated they acted purely as academics in this case and not as party officials under the leadership of their student.
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