LSDM: The Balkan cartel is breaking up, Mickoski is being left alone

LSDM says Montenegro has only just begun examining the links between the media, telecommunications and Alta Bank, while in Macedonia, according to the party, those links have long been proven and documented.

The party claims that OBRM-PDUKM has direct links to the media, telecommunications and banking sectors.

According to LSDM, Orbán controls about 40 percent of the media landscape, while new media outlets linked to Vučić have also entered the market: Alo Grupa, Informer and Euronews. The party says telecommunications support comes from Orbán’s 4iG and Vučić’s Telekom Srbija, which it describes as a state resource used as a private one.

LSDM claims that Alta Banka finances this system through marketing agencies linked to OBRM-PDUKM, primarily to the benefit of Alfa TV and portals funded by Orbán. As an example, the party cites the money-laundering investigation involving Slovenia and fictitious advertising services, accusing Mickoski of blocking it at the prosecutor’s office.

In its statement, LSDM says the Euronews licence is held by Telekom Srbija, while 4iG provides telecommunications support for the distribution of media content. According to the party, these outlets are managed through “the BIA’s stick,” its man for Macedonia, “boss” Latas and Ivona, the editor of Euronews and Alfa TV. LSDM calls this model the Macedonian version of Serbia’s Informer.

The party also claims that Orbán’s 4iG and Telekom Srbija are paid by the same lobbying firms in America for Mickoski and Vučić. It says 4iG is linked both to the arms trade and to the need for an antimony mine. LSDM adds that three ministers have already been arrested in Hungary and that the circle around Orbán is narrowing.

As for Serbia, LSDM says Vučić has fallen, arrests and investigations have begun, and the entire judicial system has started functioning even though a new government has not yet been formed. According to the party, key figures in the police have been arrested. LSDM describes these developments as the beginning of the end for a large organized crime group it calls the “Balkan cartel.” The party claims that Hristijan Mickoski is part of this mafia syndicate and that OBRM-PDUKM is a sister party of the SNS.