Media 026
The company Media 026 was founded in August 2018, and is owned by Boban Rajić who hired Igor Isailović, a controversial lawyer, to register the company in his name during the takeover of Večernje Novosti. Isailović is close to the current Minister of Finance Sinisa Mali and took care of the operations of his offshore companies. He also cooperated with the Prime Minister Ana Brnabić.
Isailović is often hired by Nikola Petrović, the godfather of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, and Milutin Folić, the former first city planner of the City of Belgrade. His most controversial client is the notorious businessman from the north of Kosovo, Zvonko Veselinović, whom the lawyer helped to establish companies.
Media 026 became the sole owner of the daily Vecernje Novosti in 2019. Later in May 2022, a month after the Commission for the Protection of Competition lifted the ban on East Media from selling its stake in Politika, the company acquired 50% shares of Politika novine i magazini, the publisher of the oldest daily Politika. in May 2022. The company Media 026 is registered in the village of Vučak in Smederevo at the address of the Rajić family business Coka and the parent company Rajić Invest.
Mother Company
Rajić Invest
Business Form
Private
Legal Form
Limited Liability Company
Business Sectors
Non-specialized wholesale trade; Consulting activities; Real estate rental; Marketing; RetailCatering; Wholesales
Individual Owner
Other Online Outlets
politika.rs
tip.rs
Media Business
Newspaper Publishing
Politika newspapers and magazines (50%)
Novosti AD (100%)
Business
Non-specialized wholesale
Rajic Invest (100%)
Consulting activities
Coka (100%)
Real estate rental
Dunav AD (75.70%)
Inex-Velepromet (68.55%)
Advertising agency
Agency Radio Novosti Plus (50%)
Retail
TP Mlava (76.17%)
Hospitality
Goč (18.76%)
Wholesale
Tradicionalna trgovina (20%)
General Information
Founding Year
2018
Affiliated Interests Founder
In addition to the Večernje novosti, Boban Rajić also owns the daily newspaper Politika and several other companies. Rajić owns Rajić Invest, holding a 100% stake in Media 026, and is the CEO of the family company Coka Holding, which bought the former Smederevo giant Dunav AD.
Dunav was bought in 2008 by Milica Stanković from Smederevo, the wife of Boban's brother, Bojan Rajić. The company Coka from Smederevo, whose owners were Bojan and Boban Rajić, asked for the Agency’s consent to the Dunav contract assignment from the original buyer, Milica Stanković, which the Agency approved in 2010.
The Rajić family grew from small local merchants into a powerful and wealthy family linked to the controversial privatization of Želvoz from Smederevo.
Until the end of 2014, Rajić was the CEO of Mega Invest 2013, replaced by Olivera Anđelković, the current CEO of Novosti. She held that position until 2018. The owner of Mega Invest today is Coka, the family company of the Rajić, and until the end of 2017, the owner was Olivera Anđelković's company RB Invest.
Contact
Karađorđeva 20, Vučak, Smederevo
E-mail: media026doo@gmail.com
Tax/ ID Number
Tax ID 111013525
ID 21413801
Financial Information
Revenue (Financial Data/ Optional)
1,24 Mln USD / 13,6 Mln RSD (2022)
Operating Profit (in Mill. $)
50,592.00 USD / 5,5 Mln RSD (2022)
Advertising (in % of total funding)
Missing data
Further Information
Meta Data
Missing data on printed and sold circulation, market share and advertising revenue. Financial data is available only for the company that publishes the media, but not for the media itself.
