The Albanian portal "pamfleti.net" published an article on Friday (August 28) with an attached video, through which it is claimed that they found a wiretap of a telephone conversation between a political official in Serbia and a Serbian political official in Kosovo.
In the video recording that is part of this article published by this so-called media platform, it is assumed that the people having this conversation are Nikola Sandulović, chairman of the Republican Party of Serbia, and a Kosovo Serb politician, whose name is allegedly unknown.
The conversation that takes place in this audio project, as can be seen, is related to the issue of forming a coalition between VV and LDK, after the last national elections in Kosovo. There is also discussion about the influence of an “American” person, who is hindering the creation of this coalition. This video recording also mentions the President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi, as an opponent of the VV-LDK coalition, as well as the PDK official, Gani Koci, as an associate of the Serbian secret service “BIA”.
Apart from this conversation published in this video recording, which is also available on the pamflet.info channel on Youtube, as well as the explanation in the text provided about the content of this discussion, the article does not provide information indicating the source of the information, nor does it provide additional evidence for the authenticity of the video.
Furthermore, at the end of the article it is stated that this material may be untrue and dangerous, prompting other dilemmas.
And this can and should only be done by an investigative commission of the Parliament of Kosovo.
Sandulović is known as a politician who constantly tries to testify about the criminal activities of the ruling parties in Serbia. He had previously given statements through which he claimed to have discovered facts that prove a 2012 scenario, prepared by the Serbian government and intelligence services, which was intended to incite unrest in Kosovo.
At a conference held in Belgrade in July 2018, Sandulović claimed that the scenario for unrest in Kosovo would begin with the act of murdering the Serbian police officer in Kosovo, Saša Ljukanović.
"In 2012, Serbia's secret service ordered elite military sniper Dejan Plavšić to kill Serbian policeman Saša Ljukovac in Kosovo, so that it could later be said that the liquidation was carried out by Albanians."
Video intercepts implicating the leader of the Republican Party of Serbia have been released before. In one of them, it is alleged that Sandulović speaks with an unidentified witness, who informs the Serbian politician that the murder of Kosovo Serb political activist Olier Ivanović was carried out by the Serbian state itself.
Analyze:
Despite all the facts presented in this analysis, which show that the leader of the Republican Party of Serbia, Nikola Sandulović, has been publishing facts over the years that prove the criminality of the Serbian leadership, the article published by pamfleti.net is lacking in information.
The failure to supplement this article with supporting facts that prove the authenticity of the wiretapping makes this evidence lose relevance, and disputes the veracity of the material.
During the analysis of the facts, hibrid.info, considering the sensitivity of the material (the wiretap) and the chronology of the statements of this Serbian politician himself, which are related to the context of the video, has hesitated to categorize this article as disinformation, or fake news. As a result of all these factors, the article has been categorized as “Unverified Content”, since the text raised issues that are not verified.
Reasoning:
Unverified Content – The “Unverified” rating is given to those media reports that do not provide sufficient information to confirm the claims made in the report, and which have not been able to confirm the same due to the lack or non-possession of reliable sources.