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The Commercial Court in Belgrade has dismissed the lawsuit filed by the publisher of tabloid Kurir against portal KRIK, which was claiming that we are engaging in „unfair competition“ and „damaging the reputation“ of this tabloid. The lawsuit followed after KRIK’s fact-checking portal RasKRIKavanje, which checks the accuracy of information […]

Belgrade High Court Judge Bojana Čogurić found KRIK guilty for violating Predrag Koluvija’s right to the presumption of innocence in an article that announced the start of the trial, ”Jovanjica 2”, in which he is the first accused. KRIK has appealed this first-instance verdict and expects the appellate court to […]

Belgrade High Court judge Slobodan Keranovic made the verdict against portal KRIK for the article which explains all the SLAPPs filed against the newsroom and names the plaintiffs, including the police commander and officers from Serbian Witness Protection Unit. This is the first instance verdict and KRIK has appealed it. […]

WRITTEN BY ILYA LOZOVSKY, OCCRP The European Union has praised Serbia for its commitment to “fundamental reforms,” and the country’s drive for membership is grinding forward. Meanwhile, a campaign of pressure and intimidation against independent journalists is ramping up in Belgrade. “I will kill and burn you all,” the tweet […]

The alleged owner of a cannabis farm sued portal KRIK for calling him an “accused narco boss,” although the man is currently on trial for growing more than a tonne of the banned weed. Journalist associations said on Wednesday that the lawsuit is aimed to stop KRIK from reporting about […]

Several pro-government media in Serbia have yesterday launched another vicious smear campaign against KRIK. Tabloids and television Pink are accusing KRIK of being aligned with Veljko Belivuk, recently arrested leader of a criminal group, currently under investigation for several monstrous murders. He and his hooligan group are well known to […]

Ending a decade-long trial, the Court of Appeal in Belgrade confirmed on Monday the 15-year prison sentence for Serbian drug lord Darko Šarić who headed a gang that smuggled nearly six tonnes of cocaine from South America to Europe. Šarić’s group is believed to have made 22 million euros (US$25.88 million) from the cocaine […]

The apartment of KRIK’s social media manager Andjela Mitrovic was broken into last night in Belgrade. This is the third time that members of KRIK team have had their homes broken into – previously it happened to our journalists Dragana Peco and Milica Vojinovic. Police did not solve any of […]

After trials that stretched over a decade, the Belgrade High Court sentenced on Friday 13 Serbian members of a criminal group led by drug lord Darko Šarić, who was sent behind bars for nine years for laundering millions of dirty drug money. Other members of Šarić’s group that operated from […]