Telekom Serbia helping make documentary about Dragan Solak

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N1 has learned that a documentary about United Group co-founder Dragan Solak is being made with the aid of the state-owned Telekom Serbia.

The new video comes after the airing of a video on pro-regime media authored by Tomislav Lovrekovic, a supporter of the Serbian authorities. That video titled Target was aired on TV Pink accusing investigative journalists and opposition leaders of endangering the life of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.

The new video is being made by Predrag Jeremic who told N1 that the idea is to make a documentary about Solak’s business affairs, from the beginning to the latest things. “I personally think that Serbia does not know all the details of how Solak started his business from a garage in Kragujevac with VHS tapes etc. Something was mentioned in public. The idea is to make a serious documentary. I truly believe that I will succeed in getting to Solak to discuss this topic. The idea is not to make something one-sided, accusing someone,” Jeremic said.

Jeremic is a journalist who has been reporting on crime since the 1980s and is now editor and owner of the Embargo.rs portal. He was in the crowd when Tomislav Lovrekovic attacked opposition Party of Freedom and Justice (SSP) official Marinika Tepic and has authored shows on the pro-regime TV Pink and Happy TV and is known as a critic of independent media.

He said that Telekom Serbia is not helping him produce the video, text messages that N1 had access to show that CEO of the state-owned telecommunications giant Vladimir Lucic is one of the people helping Jeremic produce the new video.

Jeremic said that he would like to record a lot of politicians but added that many of the people once involved in the late Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic’s government did not want to talk.

Solak recently told MSNBC that the situation in Serbia is very serious in terms of freedom of speech and the media with some 60 percent of the public being served a false image from just one source. Solak is not involved in politics and recently bought Southampton FC drawing the anger of the Serbian authorities who have pledged to pay 600 million Euro for the TV rights to the English Premier League for Telekom Serbia.