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The Kentkart Affair

16.march 2026 MLJ

Will Šapić fulfill his promise and resign?

The former head of the cabinet of Aleksandar Šapić was sentenced to death for bribery. Will the mayor of Belgrade now fulfill his own promise and resign?

Serbian portal and the Kremlin

11.march 2026 Miloš Katic, Jelena Zorić, Gordana Andrić (BIRN)

BIRN: Clues from the Serbian portal Eagle Eye Explore lead to the Kremlin and German right-wing extremists

Without an imprint or registration in Serbia, the Eagle Eye Explore portal, which is trying to build international influence, publishes pro-Russian narratives and interviews with the European far right. The portal's digital footprints follow patterns typical of Kremlin-linked media operations

Public procurement

31.January 2026 RV

BIRN: "Fabulous" rigging of public procurement for minister Starović's sister

Almost 26 million dinars were paid from the budget to companies and organizations of Ognjana Starović, the sister of Minister for European Integration Nemanja Starović, through public tenders and procurements for media services, which Nemanja Nenadić, program director of Transparency Serbia, describes as "flagrant" examples of public procurement rigging, BIRN writes.

Abuse of office

04.December 2025 IN THE

BIRN: BIA used spyware to eavesdrop on farmers

The phones of four farmers and environmental activists in Serbia were infected with NoviSpy software while they were in the premises of the BIA and the police. What life is like when you know that someone is constantly monitoring you, revealed the eavesdropped citizens

The Minister of Culture, Nikola Selaković, has asked several times to draw up a document proposing the abolition of the status of cultural property for the General Staff in the center of Belgrade.

General Staff

19.November 2025 B. B.

BIRN: Selaković several times demanded that the General Staff be stripped of its cultural property status

The Minister of Culture, Nikola Selaković, has several times asked for a document to be drawn up proposing the abolition of the status of cultural asset for the General Staff in the center of Belgrade.

Research

06.November 2025 MS

BIRN: Watch out, mass surveillance network, they're recording those biometric cameras!

A new investigation by BIRN, Glas Šumadija, Ozon press, portal 021 and Južni vesti reveals a network of institutions that in the previous three years procured invasive video-surveillance systems with the function of facial recognition - illegally

The war in Ukraine

31.October 2025 MS

BIRN: How volunteers from Serbia were recruited for the Russian army via Telegram

BIRN journalists infiltrated private Telegram groups where mercenaries with many years of experience are recruiting new volunteers from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina for the Russian army on the Ukrainian front.

Tragedy in a nursing home

15.July 2025 RV

An indictment was filed against the owner for the death of 11 people in a home for the elderly in Barajevo

The Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade filed an indictment against three persons responsible for the "Ivanović" Home for the Elderly and Adults in Barajevo, where 2025 people died in a fire in January 11.

Jovanjica

08.July 2025 MS

BYRNE: An expert opinion on Koluviya's health has been ordered

Predrag Koluvija was absent from several consecutive hearings due to, as stated, a heart problem. Therefore, the court panel issued an order to conduct a forensic medical examination of his state of health

Political marketing

16.April 2025. Ma. J.

BIRN: What did the Israeli spin doctor plan for Vučić?

Srulik Einhorn, the Israeli marketing mage, who is under investigation in his country, is currently staying in Belgrade, where he worked as an adviser to President Vučić. An investigation by BIRN and the Israeli newspaper "Haretz" reveals the details of the PR campaign he created for Vučić

Attacks on the media

27.march 2025 B. B.

Forensic analysis: BIRN journalists were targets of illegal wiretapping

From the number registered with Telekom Srbija, which is constantly unavailable, two BIRN journalists received identical messages on the same day, which contained a link to install the Pegasus spyware.

Eavesdropping

28.February 2025. MJ

BIRN: The student was a victim of spy surveillance

Ten days after BIRN and Amnesty reported on spyware abuses against activists and journalists, a student became the next target. He was detained in the Sava center and disappeared from public view for six hours

Tabloids

31.January 2025 MJ

BIRN: New report reveals media privacy violations

BIRN's latest report identifies 230 cases of privacy violations in the regular reporting of seven domestic online media outlets as well as 933 cases identified through a special case study, which covered media coverage of protest participants and activists during the anti-lithium mining protests and the protests that followed.

Mediji

19.October 2024 MJ

BIRN: The new Advertising Law does not consider the problem of state advertising

The draft Law on Advertising, which is currently under public discussion, did not even touch on the issue of advertising by state institutions and companies, although state advertising is one of the ways in which the authorities control the media

Conference "AI in newsrooms"

25.September 2024 Bojan Cvejic

Serbian journalists divided: Does artificial intelligence help?

And while there is a fear among journalists that the use of artificial intelligence will reduce the quality of journalism, more than a third of media professionals believe that the use of AI in journalism is very useful

Pressures on the media

23.September 2024 B. B.

The start of BIRN's trial on Šapić's lawsuit: The truth cannot hurt honor and reputation

At the beginning of the trial following the lawsuit filed by the mayor of Belgrade, Aleksandar Šapić, against BIRN due to an article about his villa in Trieste, journalist Jelena Veljković stated that "in order for something to harm honor and reputation, what is published must be untrue, and what what BIRN published in the text is true"

Video Surveillance

02.August 2024 BIRN

Serbia under surveillance: Secret filming outside the law

Video surveillance is often used outside the law in Serbia. Chinese Hikvision cameras record citizens without an adequate risk assessment and security plan

Property

28.June 2024 Nemanja Rujevic

Wealthy lawyer Vladimir Đukanović: "I blacked out, I killed myself from work"

Lawyer and member of SNS Vladimir Đukanović told Vreme that he was able to pay off three apartments in Voždovac with hard work and denied that political influence comes with his legal services. Other "Vremen" interlocutors are not convinced of this and wonder how Đukanović could earn hundreds of thousands of euros in just a few years.

Purchase in installments

27.June 2024 IM / BIRN

BIRN: Vladimir Đukanović bought penthouses in Belgrade and apartments in Zlatibor

Vladimir Đukanović, member of the SNS Presidency, MP and lawyer of Predrag Koluvija and Dijana Hrkalović, became the owner of three luxury apartments in Voždovac, as well as two apartments in Zlatibor, BIRN reveals.

Ministry of Family Care

26.march 2024 MS (BIRN)

BIRN research: On whose account five million euros fell

Evidence of the embezzlement of at least five million euros in tenders came from the Treasury Administration, through a request for information, writes BIRN. On whose account were the five million euros paid by the Ministry of Family Care and Demography in 2021 to a network of phantom organizations

Organized crime

11.march 2024 IM (BIRN)

BIRN: How prosecutors in Serbia collect evidence with the help of the BIA

The case of police general Slobodan Malešić reveals how prosecutors in Serbia gather evidence and information using malware that works like the notorious Predator and Pegasus, which members of the Security Intelligence Agency install on suspects' phones.

Organized crime

16.January 2024 BIRN

Police translator in custody for people smuggling

Alen Basil Dajub, a Serbian citizen of Syrian origin, was arrested in November last year. During the search of his house, the police found two unlicensed hunting carbines, a drone and a fake police uniform

Organized crime

15.January 2024 BIRN

Jovanjica: The court still hasn't decided whether 660 kilograms of cannabis is evidence

The Court of Appeal in Belgrade still has not decided on the selection of some of the key evidence from the "Jovanjica 1" case, including about 660 kilograms of dried cannabis. For this reason, not a single hearing has been held in that procedure for three and a half months

Digital rights

06.December 2023 Milic Srejic

Hate speech, discrimination and fraud in cyberspace

The BIRN report states that hate speech and discrimination, digital manipulation and computer fraud prevail in the area of digital rights violations, and that domestic, regional and national political events have directly influenced such a situation. Serbia is at the very top

Falsification of reports

21.November 2023 Z.S.

BIRN research: Millions of euros for the vulnerable ended up in other people's pockets

A network of phantom organizations falsified reports and extracted millions from the budget in public tenders aimed at young people, families and women. A close associate of Aleksandar Šapić, Aleksandra Čamagić, participated in the financing of this group for years, writes BIRN.

Research

09.October 2023 BG

Radoičić's weapons from Banjska: Manufactured and overhauled in Serbia

The ammunition used by members of the armed group during the conflict in Banjska was produced at the Serbian factory in Belom in 2022, and the mortar mines and mortars were overhauled in state institutes in 2018 and 2021, writes BIRN.

Justice

04.October 2023 BG

The trial of the inspector who participated in the discovery of Jovanjica was postponed

BIRN unofficially learns that the prosecutor Jelena Stevančević, who initially led this case that was taken from her while she was on sick leave, sent a letter to the senior public prosecutor Nenad Stefanović, expressing her disagreement with the classification of the offense as abuse of official position, and pointed out other mistakes in the indictment