April 2, 2018<\/p>\n
In the past five years, inspectors have carried out controls of financial documentation another three times, for several months at a time, which, according to staff at Ju\u017ene vesti, drained editorial staff and management.<\/p>\n
According to personnel at Ju\u017ene vesti, these controls are imposed for political reasons, or rather specifically due to its critical reporting of the local authorities, with an order to find \u201canything at all\u201d. So far, however, they have not found any irregularities.<\/p>\n
According to them, the problem is that inspections are then carried out on the business partners of the company that owns this portal, as well as those advertising with Ju\u017ene vesti. As a result of this, according to their claims, there is a risk of them being left without clients who cease cooperating with them in order to avoid problems with the state, leaving the portal without financial revenue.<\/p>\n
Some other independent media outlets have faced similar controls, such as local weeklies Kikindske and Vranjske, which was recently shut down after 23 years of operations \u201cdue to political and economic pressures\u201d.<\/p>\n