July 10, 2018
The Appellate Court in Belgrade upheld a verdict ordering former mayor and current Minister of Finance Sinisa Mali to return illegally acquired land back to the government. By Katarina Sabadoš, OCCRP In 2017, a commercial court ruled that the contract under which Mali acquired the land through the company Compost […]
June 15, 2018
Written by Jesse Chase–Lubitz, OCCRP Serbian journalist Stefan Cvetkovic, known for criticizing local authorities, was reported missing Wednesday evening from the Vojvodina town of Bela Crkva in Serbia. His car was left running with the door open and the lights on. Police in Bela Crkva said they informed the prosecutor and are […]
May 30, 2018
Serbian tabloid Informer will have to pay US $ 1.500 fines in damages to the chief editor of KRIK Stevan Dojcinovic for offensive articles about him, according to the first-instance verdict of the Higher Court. Informer is also fined for invading Dojcinovic’s privacy because it published photos from his private […]
May 18, 2018
The Serbian Ombudsman has ordered the country’s civilian intelligence service to respond to a complaint by an investigative journalist whose personal information was sent to a government affiliated tabloid. Ombudsman Zoran Pasalic ordered the Security Information Agency (BIA) to respond within 21 days to charges that it released the personal […]
May 14, 2018
Belgrade Mayor Sinisa Mali is living a life of luxury, flying business class and staying in sumptuous hotels. How he can afford it on his official salary is anyone’s guess. By Dragana Pećo A reporter for KRIK, the Serbian partner of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), spotted […]
January 12, 2018
A Serbian minister is suing OCCRP partner KRIK for revealing he owns offshore companies and assets worth US$ 100 million. KRIK’s story is based on the Paradise Papers, a massive data leak from a law firm based in Bermuda. The law firm Appleby had declared Nenad Popovic, a minister without portfolio, a high risk person after having dug […]
September 21, 2017
After the party of a Serbian government minister vilified an investigative editor as a ‘drug addict’, the EU has reminded Belgrade that it will be tracking Serbia’s respect for a free media during the accession process. By: BIRN, Maja Zivanovic The EU press service has reminded would-be-member Serbia that freedom […]
September 19, 2017
It has come to our attention that members of the current government have launched a smearing campaign against one of the members of our network. In a report that was published on Monday, KRIK has raised valid questions regarding the expensive property owned by a government official. We believe that the response of Minister […]
September 19, 2017
After Serbia’s Crime and Corruption Reporting Network, KRIK, investigated the origin of money which Defence Minister Aleksandar Vulin used to buy an apartment, his party called KRIK’s editor a “drug addict”. Maja Zivanovic BIRN Belgrade Defence Minister Aleksandar Vulin’s Movement of Socialists party lashed out after KRIK published a report […]
July 24, 2017
On Friday 7 July, prominent journalist Dragana Peco’s apartment was broken into while she was not at home. Her belongings had been moved around but no valuable items were stolen. In the recent past, similar incidents have occurred as attempts to silence other journalists, and Civil Rights Defenders therefore urges […]
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