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A Serbian minister is suing OCCRP<\/a> partner\u00a0KRIK<\/span>\u00a0for revealing he owns offshore companies and assets worth US$ 100 million.\u00a0KRIK\u2019s story is\u00a0based on the\u00a0Paradise Papers<\/span><\/a>, a\u00a0massive\u00a0data leak from a law firm based in Bermuda.<\/p>\n

The law firm Appleby\u00a0had declared Nenad Popovic, a minister without portfolio, a high risk person after having dug into his background, according to leaked e-mail\u00a0exchanges between staff members.<\/span><\/p>\n

Popovic has been a legal resident and taxpayer in Switzerland since 2008\u00a0and the leaked documents show that\u00a0he controls offshore companies registered in Cyprus and the British Virgin Islands (BVI), companies in Russia, and property in at least three countries.<\/span><\/p>\n

He turned to Appleby with a request to help him manage his empire but the law firm marked him a \u201chigh risk\u201d after having found Russian media reports tying his businesses to shady characters and a famous corruption case. It is unclear which side backed away although Popovic has claimed it was him.<\/span><\/p>\n

Popovic\u2019s lawsuit claims KRIK\u2019s article has damaged his reputation and that he wants a million dinar (US$10,149) compensation from KRIK.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>The plaintiff is exposed to daily attacks and insults from citizens who accuse him of being a thief and ask him to resign,\u201d the lawsuit says. \u201cThe plaintiff\u00a0has also noticed that\u00a0after the disputed information was published,\u00a0some\u00a0fellow politicians, as well as business partners\u00a0with whom he has previously communicated and cooperated, have stopped talking to him and have started avoiding him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

KRIK<\/a><\/span>\u00a0has said the story is based on documents from the Paradise Papers and there is no allegation that the information is inaccurate. KRIK was among the 96 media organizations from 67 countries that analyzed the leaks. The findings were also published by OCCRP<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>This lawsuit is baseless because everything OCCRP and KRIK said was factually accurate and contained in documents from the Paradise Papers,\u201d said OCCRP Editor-in-Chief Drew Sullivan. \u201cThis is politics designed to pressure KRIK but it won\u2019t work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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