CINS (Centre for Investigative Journalism of Serbia)

The Centre for Investigative Journalism of Serbia reported that small hydropower plants linked to Nikola Petrović, President Vučić's best man, received around €23.4 million from the state over ten years, and that companies run by people from the criminal underworld are working on EXPO contracts. One of its journalists took a job at an SNS call centre, where workers were paid in cash on condition that they photographed their ballot; the case opened on the complaint has been stalled for almost three years. It also revealed that the police had not filed charges against a Pink producer for driving while banned, and in 2020 it was put on a list compiled by the Administration for the Prevention of Money Laundering.

Affairs

  • SNS bots and who organises them: According to its investigation, SNS activists used the VotR2 application to vote on comments from the IP address of the party headquarters
  • “Ćacilend”: a pro-government supporters' camp in Pionirski Park: He analysed attacks on journalists near the camp and reported that of ten cases before the prosecution, not one had resulted in a penalty
  • EXPO 2027 – a special law and contracts without public procurement: It reported that firms linked to criminal circles are working on the projects and that workers without permits were found on site
  • Small hydropower plants and Stara Planina: Reported that sites were also awarded to companies in conflict with the law and to offshore owners, and on payments to firms linked to Petrović
  • Attacks on journalists: It reported that the Interior Ministry official seen in the footage of the attack on Cvijić refused to show his ID
  • Pink's Nina Kovačević hit a girl in Voždovac: It reported that police did not file a charge for driving while banned and that internal control at first denied this
  • „Safe votes“ and jobs in the public sector: It reported that a journalist took a job at an SNS call centre, with cash payments and photographing of ballots, and that a complaint has been sitting for years
  • Anti-money laundering administration ran checks on journalists and NGOs: On the Administration's list
  • Suspicious 40,000-dinar donations to the SNS: It published the prosecutor's office's official note containing donors' statements and reported that some donations had cost people their welfare benefits

People

  • Branko Čečen: director of the Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia (CINS)