After CINS revealed how the Serbian Progressive Party’s call center operates, raising suspicions of possible vote buying and misuse of citizens’ personal data, MP candidates from the “Serbia against violence” coalition Jelena Jerinić and Đorđe Pavićević filed criminal complaints against those responsible.

During his guest appearance on TV Pink, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić commented on the work of SNS’s call center, but did not respond to the main findings published by CINS in its article.

Deputy member of the City Electoral Commission Vladica Ilić says that when it comes to CINS’s article about SNS’s call center, the Prosecution and the Tax Inspectorate need to react, and that this is not the job of electoral commissions, which do not have the authority to investigate this case.

Following the publication of the article about the operations of SNS’s call center and the possible misuse of personal data of all citizens, the office of the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection states that they cannot react. However, former Commissioner Rodoljub Šabić believes the opposite.

After we published an article today about the operations of SNS’s call center and possible vote buying, the Belgrade Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office is passing the buck to the Republic Electoral Commission (RIK) and the City Electoral Commission (GIK).

Following CINS’s article on the work of SNS’s call center, Nemanja Nenadić from Transparency Serbia says that it contains enough data and evidence that point to various criminal offenses.

CINS journalists Teodora Ćurčić and Jovana Tomić have won the Annual Tolerance Award presented by the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality on the occasion of the International Day for Tolerance.

This year’s jury of the European Union (EU) Investigative Journalism Awards in the Western Balkans and Turkey awarded CINS journalists with two awards. The database and series of texts on the financing of political organizations in Serbia won second prize, while third place went to the series of texts “The Roads of Serbian Weapons”, written in cooperation with BIRN.

Serbian Progressive Party supporters came to the May 26 rally by buses, minibuses, cars, and even trains. Vehicles owned by public institutions were also used for transportation, CINS has uncovered.