Kompanija Novosti

Kompanija Novosti was founded in 2002 and part of it was privatized in 2006. Milan Beko, a Serbian businessman and former government minister in Slobodan Milosevic’s era, bought a controlling stake in Novosti through a network of companies. This privatization is one of 24 murky cases in which the Anticorruption Council, an independent government body, found irregularities and which the European Union has demanded that Serbia should investigate properly. Over the years, it has emerged that a number of hidden groups and individuals, including German media group WAZ and controversial Serbian businessman Stanko Subotic Cane, were involved in the privatization of Novosti. Subotic claimed that WAZ gave money to Beko in order to acquire Novosti but shares were never ultimately transferred to them.

Furthermore, Miroslav Bogicevic, who bought the newspaper Politika because, in his own words, individuals from the Democratic Party asked him to do so, also wanted to buy Novosti for the same reason. In interview to weekly Nedeljnik, Beko said that he doesn't know to whom he should give money for Novosti buyout, to WAZ or Bogicevic.

The Securities Commission of Serbia imposed a ban on the voting rights for the privatized shares of Novosti because of the disputed situation.

In 2017 company went bankrupt and later on plan of reorganization was adopted. Plan allowed creditors to transfer debt into ownership in Novosti and thus opened the door for state, through state owned print company Borba, to become majority shareholder in company. This was approved at shareholders' meeting in May 2019.