Radar: New SKY Messages Name Andrej and Danilo Vucic
Radar claims the nicknames Oskar and Cvarak point to Aleksandar Vucic. Vucic has not responded, and the messages alone do not prove any promise was kept.
The weekly Radar published a second batch of messages from the encrypted SKY app in its new issue on October 22, three days before the parliamentary elections on Sunday, October 25, 2026. According to the magazine, convicted drug cartel boss Darko Saric linked the nicknames “Oskar” and “Cvarak” to Aleksandar Vucic, the outgoing president of Serbia and the first name on the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) list. The exchanges also mention his brother Andrej and his son Danilo Vucic. Vucic has not responded to Radar’s claims. The article is signed by Vuk Z. Cvijic and Milan Radonjic.
What does Radar write about the nicknames Oskar and Cvarak?
The messages never use Vucic’s full name. Radar reaches the identification from the content of the exchanges, which means it is the magazine’s interpretation, not an established fact.
The first example is a message Saric sent on June 3, 2020, while in detention at the Special Court, to his relative Zeljko Vujanovic, who was then under house arrest. Saric wrote:
“We call Vucic Oskar.”
On July 31, 2020, Vujanovic was asked by a person investigators have not identified, “I don’t know who we call Oskar?”, and answered: “And then chaos. Vucic.” On November 20, 2020, at 10:17, Saric then wrote to his brother Dusko Saric:
“Cvarak is Oskar.”
How do the messages mention Andrej and Danilo Vucic?
Radar claims that “Oskar’s brother” and “son” in the messages are Andrej and Danilo Vucic. On February 27, 2020, Dusko Saric informed his brother Darko that “Oskar’s brother wants to meet with the voivode.” By “voivode,” Radar means Aleksandar Boskovic, Saric’s associate from Valjevo. On May 20, 2020, Dusko also announced an upcoming meeting with “Oskar’s brother.” That message, along with the talk of 2,000 votes, was already published in the first batch, so it is not new. What is new is Radar’s conclusion about who stands behind those labels.
According to the same magazine, on July 9, 2020, Boskovic sent Darko Saric a joint photograph with Danilo Vucic as proof that they meet. Boskovic was arrested in April 2022 in a case over discrediting a cooperating witness. In that case Saric received six years in prison at first instance, and Boskovic one year.
What do the messages say about money and the BIA?
Radar also cites exchanges about money. On May 10, 2020, Dusko Saric wrote that “the guy from the BIA” had asked him, through Boskovic, to “transfer 100k down there.” Ten days later, on May 20, he told Darko that they had “transferred 100k to ch” to “this main Markus.” The currency is not stated in the quoted messages. Radar links “Markus” to Marko Parezanovic, then a senior official of the Security Information Agency (BIA), citing the fact that he was addressed in the exchanges as Marko, Markus or Markos. The May 10 message does not contain the name Markus, only “the guy from the BIA.”
Messages from the Skaljari clan
The second part of the story concerns Radomir Bacovic, a member of the Skaljari clan. According to Radar, on February 26, 2021, he wrote to Alen Kurina about an offer that cannot be refused, coming directly from “Vucko.” Two days earlier, on February 24, he had written:
“Compadre, now we will have Montenegro and Serbia.”
On March 4, 2021, Bacovic told Kurina:
“Vucko is our brother now. Andrej is the boss, compadre.”
Radar ties those messages to a March 6, 2021 proposal by Aleksandar Vulin to make mere possession of a SKY phone a criminal offense. Bacovic and Kurina are on the run. A trial in absentia in Podgorica could, according to Radar, begin on November 17, 2026.
What do the messages prove, and what do they not?
In the first batch, published on October 16, Radar made four claims: a promised sentence of at most 10 years, a promised pardon, the handover of 2,000 votes to “Oskar’s brother” ahead of the 2020 elections, and 2.1 million that Saric called “the first money for the party” in November 2020. The quote does not name the party, and Radar reads it as the SNS.
The messages by themselves do not prove that any promised pardon was carried out. According to Vreme, on the last day of his presidential term Vucic pardoned 49 people, whose names, apart from 12 activists from Novi Sad, have not been published, so it is not known whether any of them is connected to this case. We wrote about the pardons on October 21, when the legal team Odbrana struke asked the prosecutor for the names of those pardoned, and on October 19 about Darko Saric missing the Court of Appeals session on the appeals.
The SNS did not answer N1’s question on whether Vucic is the person behind those nicknames when the first batch came out on October 16, and Vucic has not commented on Radar’s claims.
