After deploying his heavy machinery to protect Serbia’s presidency building from anti-government protesters, Mile Samardzija secured a 1.1 million-euro contract with a company part-owned by the state.
After deploying his heavy machinery to protect Serbia’s presidency building from anti-government protesters, Mile Samardzija secured a 1.1 million-euro contract with a company part-owned by the state.
Momcilo Marjanovic says he spent a decade providing ‘security’ for Serbia’s ruling party, a role that involved buying votes, beating protesters, and taking bundles of cash from the director of a public utility in the northern city of Novi Sad.
Momcilo Marjanovic says he spent a decade providing ‘security’ for Serbia’s ruling party, a role that involved buying votes, beating protesters, and taking bundles of cash from the director of a public utility in the northern city of Novi Sad.
Israeli lawyer Zion Amir, currently representing PM Benjamin Netanyahu, is one of three directors of a company now producing Israeli drones in Serbia, BIRN/Haaretz can reveal.
Israeli lawyer Zion Amir, currently representing PM Benjamin Netanyahu, is one of three directors of a company now producing Israeli drones in Serbia, BIRN/Haaretz can reveal.
Lauded by political leaders in North Macedonia, ammunition producer Shefshet Demirovski has twice been embroiled in espionage scandals in neighbouring Serbia, was bailed out by a man later charged with cocaine smuggling, yet enjoys a slice of the NATO arms market thanks to strong US and Turkish ties.
Lauded by political leaders in North Macedonia, ammunition producer Shefshet Demirovski has twice been embroiled in espionage scandals in neighbouring Serbia, was bailed out by a man later charged with cocaine smuggling, yet enjoys a slice of the NATO arms market thanks to strong US and Turkish ties.
Paid from German coffers, Jörg Heeskens has been advising Serbia’s Aleksandar Vucic since almost the moment he took power. A mountain of documents obtained by BIRN/Der Spiegel show just how closely Heeskens has worked with Vucic on a deeply unpopular lithium mining project, exposing what critics say is German complicity in the president’s subversion of democracy.
Paid from German coffers, Jörg Heeskens has been advising Serbia’s Aleksandar Vucic since almost the moment he took power. A mountain of documents obtained by BIRN/Der Spiegel show just how closely Heeskens has worked with Vucic on a deeply unpopular lithium mining project, exposing what critics say is German complicity in the president’s subversion of democracy.
President Vucic confirms BIRN/Haaretz investigation about joint Serb-Israeli drone production plans and says he hopes to significantly increase arms sales and defence cooperation with Israel.
Serbia plans to produce drones with the Israeli arms giant Elbit Systems, BIRN/Haaretz can reveal, despite the firm’s high-profile involvement in Israeli military operations in Gaza.
A pro-Trump conservative think tank has denied sending an observer to Serbia’s local elections, so how was its ‘Global Coalitions and Foreign Policy Coordinator’ registered as such?
Four right-wing, pro-Trump US organisations will ‘observe’ local elections in Serbia on Sunday, working with members of a local organisation behind a campaign of disinformation against independent media, journalists and critics of the ruling party.
At a recent conference of the Global Investigative Journalism Network, one theme stood out for me personally as an investigative journalist in Serbia – the power of undercover reporting in societies where corruption is endemic and public trust shattered.
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