OCCRP Publisher Drew Sullivan denied United Group claims that the audio recording of a conversation between its CEO Stan Miller and Telekom Serbia CEO Vladimir Lucic was incompleted.
Sullivan said in an X post thread that United Group confirmed the authenticity of the conversation. “They claim the recording is incomplete. This is inaccurate. OCCRP has provided all relevant parts of the conversation with no relevant redactions. They appear more interested in who leaked the audio file than the disturbing government meddling,” he wrote.
Sullivan said the recorded conversation was mostly a personnel discussion regarding the dismissal of an employee. “Why would you discuss the firing of an employee with a Telecom company and long-time competitor?,” he added. He wrote that United Group claims that no one pressured them into firing United Media CEO Aleksandra Subotic are not true. “This is patently false and directly contradicts the audio file.
“Stories are being published now by a soon-to-be government owned media implying Subotic committed financial crimes through offshore companies. I don’t know one way or the other if that is true but any such claims should be backed by evidence or it’s just an attack on media. Since the story ran, reporters and people close to them have gotten phishing emails and faced social engineering by persons seeking personal information about them. This likely indicates that a “spies for hire” firm has been hired by some party to get information,” Sullivan wrote in the X thread.
In an earlier post Sullivan said that no one has denied the truth of the recording and added that hunting for the leaker and not dealing with the facts is itself revealing.
Source: N1
