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I was unlawfully monitored and wiretapped for more than a year. This is not only a violation of my right to privacy, but an open abuse of the state's security apparatus for political purposes," Anna Oreg, vice-president of the Free Citizens Movement (PSG) and MP, said on 5 November 2025, after information was published that she had been "under surveillance measures" by the Security Intelligence Agency (BIA).
The indictment motion against 12 activists in Novi Sad, who are charged with the criminal offences of preparing an offence against the constitutional order and security of Serbia, and attack on the constitutional order and calling for a violent change of the constitutional order, shows that the BIA did not wiretap the activists in a targeted way, but only one person. That person is none other than Anna Oreg.
According to the allegations in the indictment motion, which were published in the media, the covert surveillance and wiretapping measures lasted for more than a year, as they began on 22 May 2024, and included surveillance in her flat, in her car, on the street and in party premises.
Insajder published details from the indictment motion, which the Novi Sad Higher Public Prosecutor's Office filed against the activists and which Insajder obtained under the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance, on 28 October 2025, while the daily Danas reported on its website on 4 November that the BIA had kept Anna Oreg under special surveillance and wiretapping measures.
A source from the prosecutor's office told Danas that, in its request to the Belgrade Higher Court for approval to place Anna Oreg under special measures, the BIA cited as the reason the MP's alleged contacts with certain Hungarian movements operating in Hungary and the region.
"I am not in contact with any Hungarian movement. The only contacts I have are members of the Hungarian national minority who are opposed both to this government and to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban," the MP said in her first reaction to Danas.
Anna Oreg and the PSG stressed that the measures were carried out unlawfully, as there are no grounds to suggest that she was endangering national security or preparing criminal offences.
The identity of this person is redacted in the indictment motion provided to Insajder, but she had been under extensive special measures by the BIA since 22 May 2024, which included surveillance and recording of communications regardless of the electronic device, access to incoming and outgoing calls and messages, and geolocation of the participants in conversations via base stations.
The extension of the measure also enabled physical surveillance, which included covert monitoring and recording both in public places and in places with restricted access.
The orders for all these measures, with one exception, were signed by the president of the Belgrade Higher Court, Dragan Milošević. He signed both the first order on the application of the measures, from May 2024, and the order of 5 August the same year extending the measures. The deputy president of the court signed the order on the extension, and Milošević then signed the last order, of 22 November 2024. It was precisely this last order that enabled the wiretapping of the premises of the PSG's Novi Sad board, where activists of this party and of the organisation STAV were recorded on 12 March 2025. Parts of that recording were provided to the media and broadcast live on 13 March, two days before the large student protest in Belgrade.
She also noted that she had said that a Hungarian company had supervised the reconstruction of the Novi Sad railway station. "So there are many business models there, and perhaps they assessed that I was a threat to that. As an opposition MP, my job is to point out all irregularities, and that must under no circumstances be the subject of an order issued against me."
In an op-ed published a few days later, on 9 November to be precise, Anna Oreg stressed that the fact that the BIA had been monitoring and covertly recording her for a year is not and cannot be normal, especially since she is not a person of security interest. "I am not endangering national security and I am not preparing any criminal offence. And those are the only two things for which the law allows the prescribing of measures as extensive as the ones I was under. Another interesting fact is that the public and I were informed about this through the media," the MP pointed out.
Anna Oreg also stated that a legitimate question arises as to whether her surveillance was in line with the law, and that, based on what was published in the media, the BIA monitored and covertly recorded her "because of some alleged contacts that I have with some Hungarian movements operating in Hungary and in Vojvodina".
"I am dying to know which contacts I could have through which I would be endangering the national security of Serbia. The question also inevitably arises whether these contacts (which I don't even know I have) perhaps endanger the security (read: endanger the rule) of Serbia's great friend Viktor Orban? Because if that is the case, then I am even more worried by the fact that the BIA, inside Serbia, also works on the orders of the prime minister of a neighbouring country," Anna Oreg stated.
Appearing on Nova S television on 14 November, Anna Oreg assessed that this kind of pressure is "a Radical method from the nineties". "The question is on whose behalf my measures were issued - Viktor Orban's or Aleksandar Vučić's. It is obvious that the authorities in Serbia and Hungary support each other through political arrangements, anticipating elections and changes, while those who stand up for democracy and European values are a nuisance to them," Anna Oreg stressed.
She particularly pointed to the part referring to alleged contacts with organisations from Hungary. "This was placed under a veil of secrecy, so that neither the public nor I would know what it was about. Through me, they wanted to control contacts within the Hungarian community in Vojvodina, and that because of my engagement for the rights of that community. This is a scandal of international proportions."
At that session, at which confidence in the Government of Serbia was debated, Anna Oreg said that Minister of Justice Nenad Vujić was "playing dumb while his department takes part in the SNS privatising the BIA, because the ruling majority uses that agency to wiretap its political opponents".
Responding to this, Jovanov said that the SNS neither controls nor has abused the BIA, "but rather the BIA did its job and protected the state and the state order from a terrorist group that was planning in Novi Sad to start a civil war on 15 March 2025 in Belgrade".
Anna Oreg then said that it is very important for the public to know that the BIA was at that time keeping her, an opposition MP, under the most extensive measures. "As far as I know, I have neither been arrested, nor convicted, nor was I preparing a criminal offence, nor was I endangering the security of the Republic of Serbia, because those are the only things for which the BIA can keep someone under such extensive measures. So it is very important that we do not mix up facts and truths. The fact is that the then president of the Belgrade Higher Court legalised my measures with his signature, even though under the law he had absolutely no possibility of doing so," Anna Oreg concluded.
In his reply, Jovanov said that the BIA "acted in accordance with the law and in accordance with a court order". "So, everything is in line with the law, and you don't like it, and you have the right not to like it, but what matters is that everything is in line with the legal provisions. That is what is important, that the BIA functions in accordance with the law, and not on the orders of the SNS, as you said. And who you communicated with and what you communicated about, you know that best," Jovanov concluded.
She has been a member of the PSG since April 2019. Within the Movement, she took part in the work of the media team, served as deputy commissioner for Novi Sad and helped build infrastructure across Vojvodina. She took part in drafting documents related to regionalism and the decentralisation of Serbia. She was elected vice-president of the party at the party Assembly held on 25 February 2024. She was first elected MP in 2022.
The indictment motion against 12 activists in Novi Sad, who are charged with the criminal offences of preparing an offence against the constitutional order and security of Serbia, and attack on the constitutional order and calling for a violent change of the constitutional order, shows that the BIA did not wiretap the activists in a targeted way, but only one person. That person is none other than Anna Oreg.
According to the allegations in the indictment motion, which were published in the media, the covert surveillance and wiretapping measures lasted for more than a year, as they began on 22 May 2024, and included surveillance in her flat, in her car, on the street and in party premises.
Insajder published details from the indictment motion, which the Novi Sad Higher Public Prosecutor's Office filed against the activists and which Insajder obtained under the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance, on 28 October 2025, while the daily Danas reported on its website on 4 November that the BIA had kept Anna Oreg under special surveillance and wiretapping measures.
The order granting the BIA approval to place the MP under special surveillance measures was issued by the Belgrade Higher Court
The order granting the BIA approval to place the MP under special surveillance measures was issued by the Belgrade Higher Court and was classified as "strictly confidential".A source from the prosecutor's office told Danas that, in its request to the Belgrade Higher Court for approval to place Anna Oreg under special measures, the BIA cited as the reason the MP's alleged contacts with certain Hungarian movements operating in Hungary and the region.
"I am not in contact with any Hungarian movement. The only contacts I have are members of the Hungarian national minority who are opposed both to this government and to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban," the MP said in her first reaction to Danas.
Anna Oreg and the PSG stressed that the measures were carried out unlawfully, as there are no grounds to suggest that she was endangering national security or preparing criminal offences.
How the MP was wiretapped
When publishing the indictment motion against the 12 activists, Insajder stressed that several sources had confirmed to it that the person who was wiretapped does not appear in the indictment at all, but was monitored for entirely different reasons.The identity of this person is redacted in the indictment motion provided to Insajder, but she had been under extensive special measures by the BIA since 22 May 2024, which included surveillance and recording of communications regardless of the electronic device, access to incoming and outgoing calls and messages, and geolocation of the participants in conversations via base stations.
The extension of the measure also enabled physical surveillance, which included covert monitoring and recording both in public places and in places with restricted access.
The orders for all these measures, with one exception, were signed by the president of the Belgrade Higher Court, Dragan Milošević. He signed both the first order on the application of the measures, from May 2024, and the order of 5 August the same year extending the measures. The deputy president of the court signed the order on the extension, and Milošević then signed the last order, of 22 November 2024. It was precisely this last order that enabled the wiretapping of the premises of the PSG's Novi Sad board, where activists of this party and of the organisation STAV were recorded on 12 March 2025. Parts of that recording were provided to the media and broadcast live on 13 March, two days before the large student protest in Belgrade.
What was the BIA's reason for placing the MP "under surveillance measures"
In an interview with N1 on 5 November 2025, Anna Oreg pointed out that, as an MP, she had criticised the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (SVM) from the first day of her term, even though she herself belongs to the Hungarian national community, "and someone probably assessed that this affects the business deal that Aleksandar Vučić and Viktor Orban have".She also noted that she had said that a Hungarian company had supervised the reconstruction of the Novi Sad railway station. "So there are many business models there, and perhaps they assessed that I was a threat to that. As an opposition MP, my job is to point out all irregularities, and that must under no circumstances be the subject of an order issued against me."
In an op-ed published a few days later, on 9 November to be precise, Anna Oreg stressed that the fact that the BIA had been monitoring and covertly recording her for a year is not and cannot be normal, especially since she is not a person of security interest. "I am not endangering national security and I am not preparing any criminal offence. And those are the only two things for which the law allows the prescribing of measures as extensive as the ones I was under. Another interesting fact is that the public and I were informed about this through the media," the MP pointed out.
Anna Oreg also stated that a legitimate question arises as to whether her surveillance was in line with the law, and that, based on what was published in the media, the BIA monitored and covertly recorded her "because of some alleged contacts that I have with some Hungarian movements operating in Hungary and in Vojvodina".
"I am dying to know which contacts I could have through which I would be endangering the national security of Serbia. The question also inevitably arises whether these contacts (which I don't even know I have) perhaps endanger the security (read: endanger the rule) of Serbia's great friend Viktor Orban? Because if that is the case, then I am even more worried by the fact that the BIA, inside Serbia, also works on the orders of the prime minister of a neighbouring country," Anna Oreg stated.
Appearing on Nova S television on 14 November, Anna Oreg assessed that this kind of pressure is "a Radical method from the nineties". "The question is on whose behalf my measures were issued - Viktor Orban's or Aleksandar Vučić's. It is obvious that the authorities in Serbia and Hungary support each other through political arrangements, anticipating elections and changes, while those who stand up for democracy and European values are a nuisance to them," Anna Oreg stressed.
She particularly pointed to the part referring to alleged contacts with organisations from Hungary. "This was placed under a veil of secrecy, so that neither the public nor I would know what it was about. Through me, they wanted to control contacts within the Hungarian community in Vojvodina, and that because of my engagement for the rights of that community. This is a scandal of international proportions."
The authorities are silent on this case
There has been no reaction whatsoever from the authorities to this case. The only one who spoke about it was the head of the SNS parliamentary group in the National Assembly, Milenko Jovanov, on 29 July 2026, during a debate with Anna Oreg.At that session, at which confidence in the Government of Serbia was debated, Anna Oreg said that Minister of Justice Nenad Vujić was "playing dumb while his department takes part in the SNS privatising the BIA, because the ruling majority uses that agency to wiretap its political opponents".
Responding to this, Jovanov said that the SNS neither controls nor has abused the BIA, "but rather the BIA did its job and protected the state and the state order from a terrorist group that was planning in Novi Sad to start a civil war on 15 March 2025 in Belgrade".
Jovanov said that the SNS neither controls nor has abused the BIA, "but rather the BIA did its job and protected the state and the state order from a terrorist group that was planning in Novi Sad to start a civil war on 15 March 2025 in Belgrade
"The proof that the BIA did its job is that all the members of this terrorist group fled Serbia and found refuge in the Republic of Croatia. The proof that the BIA did its job is that, even after the state of Serbia requested that these persons be extradited to Serbia and that proceedings be brought against them, the Republic of Croatia is not extraditing them. The proof that the BIA did its job and protected the order from external and internal interference is that, in all this time, none of these people has come to the Republic of Serbia of their own free will to prove their innocence, as all of you from liberal circles used to say when the representatives of the Hague dungeon were hunting Serbian officers - none of this terrorist group, which met in Novi Sad and tried on 15 March to start a civil war, has come to prove their innocence; instead, they know what they did and they are sitting in Croatia," Jovanov said.Anna Oreg then said that it is very important for the public to know that the BIA was at that time keeping her, an opposition MP, under the most extensive measures. "As far as I know, I have neither been arrested, nor convicted, nor was I preparing a criminal offence, nor was I endangering the security of the Republic of Serbia, because those are the only things for which the BIA can keep someone under such extensive measures. So it is very important that we do not mix up facts and truths. The fact is that the then president of the Belgrade Higher Court legalised my measures with his signature, even though under the law he had absolutely no possibility of doing so," Anna Oreg concluded.
In his reply, Jovanov said that the BIA "acted in accordance with the law and in accordance with a court order". "So, everything is in line with the law, and you don't like it, and you have the right not to like it, but what matters is that everything is in line with the legal provisions. That is what is important, that the BIA functions in accordance with the law, and not on the orders of the SNS, as you said. And who you communicated with and what you communicated about, you know that best," Jovanov concluded.
Who is Anna Oreg
Anna Oreg was born in 1985 in Novi Sad, where she completed primary school and grammar school, with classes taught in Hungarian. In 2009 she graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture in Novi Sad, majoring in veterinary medicine. From 2012 until today she has owned the private veterinary clinic "Dog House", where she engages both in professional practice and in the professional training of veterinary graduates.She has been a member of the PSG since April 2019. Within the Movement, she took part in the work of the media team, served as deputy commissioner for Novi Sad and helped build infrastructure across Vojvodina. She took part in drafting documents related to regionalism and the decentralisation of Serbia. She was elected vice-president of the party at the party Assembly held on 25 February 2024. She was first elected MP in 2022.
