Investigative stories
In early 2022, three planes carrying goods worth nearly 3 million EUR landed in Belgrade. The ruling Serbian Progressive Party imported this merchandise, despite Serbian parties typically not importing goods from abroad. CINS and OCCRP uncover what lies behind this unusual import as well as ties between a controversial Romanian businessman and the company that exported the goods.
CINS reveals who is behind German and UK companies to which the Serbian Progressive Party paid 48 million RSD for the training of its members in 2022.
TV stations Pink and Happy wrote off a debt of around 100 million RSD, owed by the Serbian Radical Party. CINS’s investigation reveals that while it is not uncommon for parties to become indebted during election campaigns, the current financial system fails to prevent potential abuses.
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CINS’s Party Funds database tracks all reported incomes and expenses of 40 political parties and citizens’ groups in Serbia over the past nine years. Here is what the data reveals.
Last week, Mila Pajić and Doroteja Antić were interrogated for four hours, not knowing during that time who was questioning them or why. Actions by plainclothes police officers following last week’s protests have raised the question: How can citizens know who the police officers are?
At this year’s EU Investigative Journalism Awards in the Western Balkans and Turkey, CINS journalists won first place for their call center investigation.
Rzav Film Fest, an international environmental short film festival, awards CINS journalist Dina Đorđević for a film produced by CINS.
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International Women’s Day – 8 March – is an occasion to discuss whether men and women in Serbia are equal – and to what extent. According to data, men are more likely to hold leadership positions and earn more.
The quality of air in Serbia has been the subject of discussion for years, and it is no secret that the country is the worst in Europe in terms of premature pollution-related deaths. Recent satellite data accessed by Deutsche Welle in cooperation with the European Data Journalism Network is revealing.
The Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia (CINS) monitors the development of coronavirus in Serbia and its impact on the lives of people. This is why, since the beginning of the epidemic, we publish official data on the number of people tested, confirmed new cases, hospitalized, people on respirators and deceased. Since we recorded a low number of new cases for couple of weeks in April 2022, from April 24, we will not publish data every day, but once a week.
More than 60 medical ventilators in Serbia are not operational, whereas the number of those that are is over 950, according to the Institute of Public Health Dr. Milan Jovanović Batut data CINS obtained yesterday. Relative to population size, the biggest quantities of this medical equipment, necessary during COVID-19 spread, are found in the South Banat and Belgrade districts, while the smallest quantities are in the Rasina, Jablanica and Mačva districts.
