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Photo: Beta / Milan ObradovićAfter the unsuccessful contest for the election of the director of our public media institution, and considering that on August 22 a new contest was announced with a period of 30 days to apply, I feel obliged to address you first as a concerned citizen and user of RTS by force of law.
That is, in the last few days we have learned in the media that some members of the Board of Directors have no knowledge about the financial operations of RTS and the unjustified spending of our money, which is unacceptable given that the Board of Directors is the RTS’s governing body and is one of its statutory powers to control financial operations.
Therefore, I have an obligation to address you as a RTS funder, and double, because we all pay a fee for public media service according to the electricity meter with which we finance RTS, but also through our public budget, which is again filled by all citizens of Serbia and in this way we finance RTS twice with our money.
In the run-up to the election of the new RTS director, you should know the following or, allowing yourself to ignore it, take the appropriate steps to find out and inform the public why you did not know all this.
And this is dramatically bad RTS management, financially irresponsible, wasteful and with reasonable suspicion also corrupt. I think you need to take all this into account before the election of the new RTS director, not only because of the attention to whom you will leave our money in the future after the new competition, but also so that all the previous managers who abused their position be responsible.
As a responsible person, I have an obligation to present to you and the citizens of Serbia the dire financial data according to which the previous RTS administration spent our money to pay hundreds of thousands of euros for advertisements in the tabloids Alo, Kurir, Blic, the weekly Ekspres, etc., for services. Cleaning the premises pays more than 3 million euros in the last quarter alone, or 92 thousand euros per month, for cleaning! Or that it spends astronomical amounts on food and beverages, but also on technical equipment through various companies, where it gives the impression that RTS is more of a catering establishment that does not have any equipment to work with, because it rents almost everything.
For the credibility of my claims and concerns, here are some amazing facts:
1. For ADVERTISING SERVICES more than half a million euros, of which in 2018 111,680.00 euros, and in 2019 a total 426,950.00 euros!
Thus, among other things, RTS paid for advertising only in 2019 in:
– Tabloid ALO – EUR 25,512.00 (contract concluded on April 1, 2019)
– Tabloid KURIR – EUR 34,696.00 (contract concluded on April 1, 2019)
– EXPRESS Weekly – EUR 14,457.00 (contract concluded on April 1, 2019)
– BLICU – 68,372.00 euros (contract entered into on April 1, 2019)
– NEWS – EUR 51,024.00 (contract concluded on April 1, 2019)
– MONDO Portal – 25,512.00 euros (contract entered into on April 1, 2019)
– ADS media (for RTS advertising at Nikola Tesla airport) – 20,392.00 euros
(contract entered into on October 28, 2019)
– MULTIVISION doo (advertising on the Multivision network) – 97,353.00 euros
(contract entered into on February 21, 2019)
– ALMA QUATTRO (billboard) – 111,680.00 euros
(contract entered into on October 12, 2018)
Etc.
2. For PREMISES CLEANING SERVICES exceeding 3 million euros in the last term:
– Tecon System – 1,734,800 euros (contract entered into on December 31, 2019)
– Dedinje AD – 1,457,817.00 (contract entered into on 12/31/2016.)
3. For TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT TO CARRY OUT ACTIVITIES up to 4,428,596.00 only in 2019, of which the majority:
– AMISYS doo (studio cameras) – EUR 1,001,184.00
(contract concluded on April 17, 2019)
– AMISYS doo (wired and wireless microphones, lot 1) – 113,221.00 euros
(contract entered into on May 27, 2019)
– AMISYS doo (wired and wireless microphones, lot 2) – 242,685.00 euros
(contract entered into on May 27, 2019)
– AMISYS doo (expansion of the intake part of the emission system) – 122,295.00 euros
(contract concluded on April 22, 2019)
– AMISYS doo (measurement device for video signal control) – 16,838.00 euros
(contract entered into on March 26, 2019)
– AMISYS doo (measuring device for the control of the video signal) – 69,817.00 euros
(contract entered into on March 26, 2019)
– AMISYS doo (sound processors) – 16,838.00 euros
(contract entered into on February 18, 2019)
– YU EPICENTAR (training program for digitization) – 20,409.00 euros
(contract entered into on March 19, 2019)
– YU EPICENTAR (system for recording studio shows) – 180,751.00 euros
(contract entered into on February 6, 2019)
– YU EPICENTAR (film tape materials preparation, digitization, restoration and storage system) – 540,849.00 euros
(contract entered into on January 31, 2019)
– SMART CITY Valjevo (information program production system) – 582,264.00 euros
(contract concluded on April 12, 2019)
– TSE doo (purchase of an audio system for Studio13 of Radio Belgrade) – 302,944.00 euros
(contract entered into on September 16, 2019)
– TSE doo (purchase of audio system for Studio 9 from Radio Belgrade) – EUR 70,974.00
– (contract entered into on September 16, 2019)
– TSE doo (acquisition of technological equipment for Radio Belgrade studio 22) – EUR 71,195.00
(contract concluded on February 16, 2019)
– VISUAL IMPACT (modular equipment) – 34,458.00 euros
(contract signed on October 10, 2019)
– VISUAL IMPACT (tripods and stands for cameras) – 270,901.00 euros
(contract entered into on September 9, 2019)
– VISUAL IMPACT (modular equipment for AV signal processing) – 77,301.00 euros
(contract entered into on April 24, 2019, lot 1)
– PRO VIDEO (cameras to record a documentary program) – 215,693.00 euros
(contract entered into on June 28, 2019)
– PRO VIDEO (electrical consumable – audio, video, optical, coaxial cable) – 36,652.00 euros
(contract entered into on June 7, 2019, lot 2)
– PRO VIDEO (expansion of the central storage space of the archive in the Aberdareva Data Center) – 124,489.00 euros
(contract concluded on May 21, 2019)
– PRO VIDEO (devices for transmission of audio signals over IP network) – 80,634.00 euros
(contract entered into on March 19, 2019)
– PRO VIDEO (extension of the filing system on LTO tapes) – 73,363.00 euros
(contract entered into on February 12, 2019)
– SKY SOLUTIONS (rental of equipment for the realization of special shows) – 225,830.00 euros
(contract concluded on August 21, 2019.
4. For FOOD AND GROCERIES more than one million euros in the last quarter alone!
More precisely, 1,012,565,000 euros
I am at your disposal for any assistance you give me by providing additional data on, as you can see, the misuse of money by all citizens.
In particular, I ask you to pay special attention to the actions of the management regarding the contracting of serial, cinematographic and television programs, which are again paid for with money from the public, despite the fact that we have clear examples of conflicts of interest .
The example of former RTS deputy director Ivana Miković, who came to this position at the suggestion of director Dragan Bujošević, is sufficient.
Namely, as deputy director of RTS, Miković had a vision within the RTS system of all the parameters for the recruitment of films and serial production, TV shows and streaming content (especially budget parameters), while at the same time, In parallel with the role of deputy director of RTS, she founded 06/25/2018 a private company “Firefly productions” for the production of cinematographic works, audiovisual products and television programs (data from APR).
The corrupt acts of abuse of power and trading of the influence of Ivana Mikovic, but also of Dragan Bujosevic, who is the legal executor of the RTS budget, are based on a direct conflict of interest of Ivana Mikovic, who has been working for a year in one of the two most responsible positions. She founded and directed a private production company “Firefly productions”, with which RTS then contracts and buys content that they pay for with our money.
In short, the state public service RTS, where Ivana Miković is deputy director, and her private producer “Firefly productions”, contract the production and dissemination of content paid for by citizens.
To make matters worse, April 5, 2019. The majority owner of the private company Ivana Miković “Firefly productions” becomes the owner of the Kurir Igor Žeželj tabloid (with his company Mondo Inc), while Miković remains in co-ownership of the 16.34% and continues to hold the position of director of the company.
I remind you, from the above, that RTS has repeatedly paid for advertising in the Kurir de Žeželj tabloid (34,696.00 euros in 2019), as well as on its Mondo portal, which was transferred to it by the Telecom state immediately before and also paid it with money from citizens. 37.9 million euros through its company Mondo Inc (25,512.00 euros in 2019)
There is no doubt that RTS director Dragan Bujošević had information on all this. Otherwise, you are equally responsible if you did not hold them in such a responsible position and unscrupulously managed RTS with “fraternal combinations”, acted in a corrupt manner, providing benefits to others, and to the detriment of the citizens of Serbia and the reputation of RTS .
Anticipating your reaction, I greet you anxiously.
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