How is it possible that "Informer" knew in detail what Zdravko Ponoš said to the police as soon as the hearing was over? How did they know exactly when the police would break into the Rectorate building in March of this year? Why are criminal acts of leaking information from investigative procedures not prosecuted ex officio
Regime tabloids in Serbia seem to have insiders in every police station in Serbia.
So "Informer" published the details from the confidential of the police hearing on the "sound cannon" of Zdravko Ponoš – just a few minutes after it was over.
Dragan J. Vučićević's tabloid was similarly "prepared" when the UKP under rotation broke into the Rector's building in March 2026, during the investigation into the death of a student at the Faculty of Philosophy. They are were ready to wait for the police with a camera, and everything was broadcast live on the television program "Informer".
"Someone in the police abuses their position and provides information to the tabloids," prosecutor Radovan Lazić told Vreme. "It is clear that this person is committing a criminal offense because the pre-investigation procedure is secret. If something is announced to the public, it must not be done without the approval of the prosecutor."
Lazić adds that this practice of leaking information to pro-government tabloids has been present for a long time, and we cannot know what its motives are - whether they are political or purely corrupt.
Former policeman Dušan Stanković explains to Vreme how the transfer of information can flow from a policeman or inspector in the field to the editor of a tabloid.
"I believe that the channel is political," says Stanković for "Vreme". "Photos and records are very often passed on by police officers to their superiors, who probably immediately send it to public officials, who may just copy-paste the information to reporters."
Until a few years ago, the police used Viber groups on a large scale for informing and sharing information, he adds. So it happened that some documents were sent in this unsafe and insufficiently official way, which opens up the possibility that other persons can come into their possession.
That's why Bratislav Gašić, as Minister of the Interior, issued an order to all police departments in 2023 banning official communication through applications such as Viber and Sky. The ban was introduced for security reasons, i.e. because of the risk of interception of messages and leakage of confidential operational data by criminal groups.
However, Stanković does not think that in these cases of leaking information to "Informer" it is about the interception of messages or individual good relations between police officers and journalists.
"My assumption is that the people who made the note forward it to officials in the MUP, who, on the orders of their bosses, send it to politicians or directly to the tabloids," adds the former policeman.
The editor-in-chief of Informer Dragan J. Vučićević revealed in the Collegium on Informer television what opposition member Zdravko Ponoš said to the police during an informative interview to which he was summoned by order of the prosecution because of allegations about the sound cannon.
"The GOSI service is working at full speed. We received the details of what Ponoš said to the police. Let me translate it for you - Ponoš admitted that he lied. He lied because it suited him that way," said Vučićević.
The informer calls the "GOSI Service" the "Viewer Intelligence Service" of his daily newspaper and television. It is a column and series where readers and viewers are invited to allegedly anonymously report information, photos or videos about the movements and activities of public figures, politicians and journalists.
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