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12/06/2020

KRIK Reporter’s Phone Confiscated After Photographing President’s Son

On Wednesday night, at around ten o’clock, an unknown man took away mobile phone from our journalist Bojana Pavlović, after she had photographed Danilo Vučić, the son of the President of Serbia, watching a football match together with Aleksandar Vidojević – a hooligan close to the Kavač criminal clan. This […]
08/05/2020

KRIK Investigation Sparks Uproar Among Serbian Officials

Reacting to an investigation into criminal gangs, Serbian pro-government tabloids on Wednesday unleashed a barrage of coverage echoing statements from political leaders who accused journalists of targeting the president’s son on behalf of the opposition.  The investigation published on Tuesday focused on a deadly war between two Montenegrin crime clans, and revealed […]
14/04/2020

COVID-19 Kills Serbia’s Alleged Drug Lord

A controversial businessman known as ‘Serbian Al Capone’ and considered the region’s top narco-boss died in a Belgrade hospital on Sunday after suffering from respiratory complications caused by COVID-19. Dragoslav Kosmajac came into focus in 2014 when the then Serbian Prime Minister and current President Aleksandar Vučić described him as […]
02/04/2020

Serbia’s COVID-19 Lockdown Takes an Authoritarian Turn

A musician in jail on flawed evidence. A journalist arrested for reporting on poor conditions in a local medical center. Hundreds of ordinary citizens charged for breaking arbitrarily enforced isolation measures. Written by Milica Vojinović, published on occrp.org Serbia, already an illiberal state, has responded to the COVID-19 crisis with […]
18/12/2019

KRIK Editor Detained on Abu Dhabi airport and Deported Back to Serbia

KRIK editor-in-chief Stevan Dojcinovic was detained last night at an airport in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where he was told that he is “blacklisted” and could not enter the country, so he was deported back to Serbia. Airport police told Dojcinovic that UAE immigration […]
18/12/2019

OCCRP Outraged by Editor’s Detention and Denial of Entry on Eve of UN Anti-Corruption Conference

The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) is deeply concerned by yesterday’s detention of Stevan Dojcinovic, a regional editor for OCCRP and founder of the Crime and Corruption Reporting Network (KRIK) in Serbia, by local police upon arrival at Abu Dhabi International Airport. Dojcinovic was traveling to the United […]
08/10/2019

KRIK’s Journalist Made a Statement to the Police About Breaking-And-Entering of Her Home

KRIK’s reporter Milica Vojinovic, whose house was broken into last Thursday night, made a statement to the police today. The case was filed as aggravated theft, but Vojinovic said she doesn’t rule out the possibility that the crime may have been related to her journalistic work. Milica pointed out to […]
04/10/2019

KRIK’s Journalist Family House Broken Into

The family house of KRIK’s journalist Milica Vojinovic was broken into while she and her family were abroad. Her cousin found a ransacked home today. The case will be reported to the police and to a group for journalists’ safety. It is not yet known if anything was stolen, but […]
10/09/2019

KRIK won EU Investigative Journalism Award

KRIK’s story How Serbia’s Health Minister Helped a Criminal Avoid Trial written by our journalist Dragana Peco and editor Stevan Dojcinovic has won the EU Award for the best investigative story in Serbia in 2018. This investigation clearly demonstrated strong ties between Minister Zlatibor Loncar and notorious Zemun clan.  “The authors were […]
06/09/2019

Court Cases Initiated by Serbian Minister Completed in KRIK’s Favor

Serbia’s Minister without portfolio Nenad Popovic has withdrawn three libel cases he filed against the investigative portal KRIK, while the court dismissed the fourth.  Popovic sued KRIK over stories that revealed his network of offshore companies in Cyprus and the British Virgin Islands. The outlet cited data from the Paradise […]

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