Tepic Video Reopens Telekom Affair Against Dolovac
Deputy party leader Marinika Tepic released a video, exactly six years old, showing Zagorka Dolovac refusing a nearly 38 million euro Telekom contract, reopening the Telekom affair.
A video showing Republic Public Prosecutor Zagorka Dolovac refusing to accept a Telekom Srbija contract is back in circulation, exactly six years after it was filmed. Marinika Tepic, deputy president of the Party of Freedom and Justice, released the footage on August 7, 2026, together with a fresh demand for prosecutors to open a case. The Telekom affair is back at the point where it stalled in August 2020.
In the video, Tepic approaches the prosecutor holding a document and tries to hand it to her. Dolovac refuses to take it, explaining that she does not get involved in politics. Tepic says that encounter followed a months long search for the prosecutor, one that led her to report Dolovac’s “disappearance” to Interpol that same May.
What Does the Telekom and Wireless Media Contract Say?
The document Dolovac would not accept was a 2018 contract between Telekom Srbija and Wireless Media, a company owned by Igor Zezelj, worth nearly 38 million euros. Tepic says 10 million euros of that deal was earmarked for buying the daily newspaper Kurir, with the remaining 28 million going toward content production that Telekom would then purchase.
In the op-ed she published alongside the video, she describes the contract like this:
When I searched for Zagorka Dolovac across Serbia to hand her personally the corrupt Telekom-Zezelj contract, worth nearly 38 million euros, a contract that turned state money into a private television station, Kurir, and a tabloid serving those in power, she turned her head away too. The country’s chief prosecutor refused to accept evidence in her hands, in public, in front of the cameras.
The contract, she says, was also submitted to the Anti-Corruption Council. The case sat in a drawer there after council member Jelisaveta Vasilic died, according to Tepic.
From 38 Million to Seven Billion
The reason the old footage is resurfacing now is a figure that has grown in the meantime. Tepic claims Telekom Srbija’s debt has climbed to seven billion euros, and that responsibility for that also rests with company director Vladimir Lucic.
The relationship between those two figures says more than any comment could. The contract that sent her searching for the prosecutor across the country in 2020 is worth about half a percent of the debt she now attributes to the company. What was, six years ago, a question about a single arrangement with a single private firm is now a question about the state operator’s balance sheet.
She names the motive behind that debt without hedging:
Aleksandar Vucic turned Telekom Srbija into his strongest political weapon.
She added a line that sums up her view of the company’s role in the media market: “Telekom financed the regime’s media dominance. Telekom stifled competition.”
What Happened Outside Telekom’s Headquarters in 2020
The same year the video was filmed, Tepic was physically attacked outside Telekom’s headquarters. She attributes the attack to Drasko Markovic, a former Radical Party member who now serves as a Serbian Progressive Party official and as Telekom’s director of human resources. The incident was labeled as such at the time; she still reads it as a message.
Her complaint against the institutions is laid out in the op-ed as a list, not a verdict:
For six years I warned, and for six years no institution reacted, neither the prosecution, nor the Anti-Corruption Council, nor Telekom’s Supervisory Board, nor its Management Board.
A Second Investigation Request in a Short Span
This is not the first time this summer that Tepic has asked prosecutors to open a state contract. We previously reported on her request concerning the DIPOS contract on state owned villas, where both the case and the addressee were different. What the two cases share is a demand that the institution itself launch proceedings over a document that is already public.
The difference this time is that the addressee is named rather than described. Her message called on the prosecutor to find the courage to act after six years, narrowing the responsibility down to one name and one case.
Everything above are claims from the opposition benches. Neither Telekom Srbija nor the prosecution’s office has confirmed them, and Tepic herself says there has been no response from the institutions during the six years she has pressed the issue.
The question now facing the Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office after the video’s release is narrower than the political debate surrounding it: whether the 2018 contract between the state company and the private firm contains elements of a criminal offense. The answer does not depend on who is asking it.
