# 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](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/botovi-sns): 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](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/cacilend): 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](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/expo-2027): 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](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/mini-hidroelektrane): 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](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/napadi-na-novinare): 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](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/nina-kovacevic-vozdovac): 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](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/partijsko-zaposljavanje-sigurni-glasovi): 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](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/provera-racuna-novinara-nvo-2020): On the Administration's list
- [Suspicious 40,000-dinar donations to the SNS](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/sns-sumnjive-donacije): 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](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/branko-cecen): director of the Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia (CINS)

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Source: Odgovornost, https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/cins  
As of: 9 Nov 2026  
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en)