Anonymous Denies Serbia Hacking Allegations

Anonymous Serbia told Balkan Insight that it had nothing to do with hacking the emails of Miljana Radivojevic, a professor from University College London who wrote about the revelations that Megatrend University rector Mica Jovanovic did not get his PHD at the London School of Economics, as he had claimed.

“Anyone who knows anything about the idea and concept of Anonymous would never help Mica Jovanovic,” a spokesperson for Anonymous Serbia told BIRN in a message sent via Facebook.

The hacker group was reacting after Jovanovic showed off printouts during a television interview of hacked email exchanges between Radivojevic and Dejan Popovic, a professor from Belgrade Law Faculty and former rector of University of Belgrade, accusing them of initiating the Megatrend scandal.

The scandal began when three British-based Serbian academics published an article on the Pescanik.net website claiming that Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic plagiarized parts of his PhD thesis, which then  brought Stefanovic’s mentor, Jovanovic, into spotlight.

Radivojevic, together with her colleague Marko Milanovic, subsequently published an article on Pescanik.net claiming that Mica Jovanovic did not obtain his PhD in London, as he said in his official biography.

Jovanovic argued however that it was a conspiracy against him and the government.

“He [Popovic] commissioned Miljana Radivojevic to publish the analysis on the Pescanik website, and she found other three colleagues. Their goal was politically inspired - bringing down the state leadership,” Jovanovic told TV Pink.

The emails Jovanovic showed on TV were sent from Radivojevic’s original email address. But Anonymous Serbia said that it always uses its own email address when...