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Although the media reported that Tanjug was bought by the companies of Zeljko Joksimovic and Manja Grcic, the Property Directorate says that it is not about selling that news agency, but that the company “Tacno”, owned by Minacord Media and RTV Pancevo , acquired the rights to use Tanjug. property rights. Rival news agencies say the state will solve two problems with this move: ownership of Tanjug and criticism from the European Union due to the unfinished process of privatization of the media.
Tanjug was not sold, but its otherwise state-owned property rights were bought by a private company, they told the Serbian Association of Journalists of the Property Directorate. For the next ten years, the company “Tačno doo”, jointly owned by Minacord Media by Željko Joksimović and Manja Grčić and “RTV Pančevo”, will be entitled to Tanjug.
For the director of the Fonet agency, Zoran Sekulić, this was not a surprise, but, as he says, a matter of gymnastics.
“Formal-legal, financial or any similar that will be carried out to save Tanjug, if not ‘de jure’ under state control and state property, then ‘de facto’. So, the company, in any case, will have to be extinguished , but that is why the Property Management will say here, that, in fact, the right to use four Tanjug trademarks, that is, the Tanjug logo and the Tanjug name, as well as the copyrights on some 27 copyrighted works, offered on November 17, via advertisements. “To announce who is interested in using the property rights of the Republic of Serbia. This contest was announced on the same day the ‘Tačno doo’ company was founded, and that is an interesting coincidence, “says Sekulić.
Although the state should have left the ownership structure in the media five years ago, it retained ownership of Tanjug, even after two failed privatization attempts. After five years of working in a loophole, according to Sekulic, the state will now solve two problems by handing over property rights to Tanjug.
Because I think all the construction was not done by Zeljko Joksimovic or Manja Grcic, but they used that infrastructure to actually preserve the production and the Tanjug name. Will it remain as permanent, under the umbrella of this company or tomorrow, quietly, I am not aware of that, but formally – after five years, at least with such a delay, Tanjug is no longer in the company register as a company and On the other hand, tomorrow it can be said that the European Union She spoke directly or indirectly in all her reports, completes the privatization process, alluding to Tanjug, this issue has finally been removed from the agenda, but it is important for us because now negotiations between the government and the opposition are imminent, so the European Union will mediate. “We are making some concessions here. And political influence and control will remain as well,” Sekulic said.
Incidentally, Minacord Media owns three cable TV channels on Telekom’s cable system, and the minority owner of “RTV Pancevo” is Radoica Milosavljevic, who made herself known to the general public by buying various local media outlets in the process. of its privatization when it was connected to the Serbian Progressive Party.
Minacord Media and RTV Pancevo now jointly manage Tanjug’s assets.
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