The Agrokor food company on Sunday responded to claims in an article published by Vecernji List daily, saying it had no information that the company was under investigation.
The head of the company's PR department, Anja Linic, told the press questions should be addressed to relevant bodies.
Interior Minister Ranko Ostojic rejected the allegations published by the newspaper, saying police had not committed any abuse and that as minister he stood behind legal police work.
Vecernji List ran an article on Sunday claiming the police, acting under Ostojic's political leadership, had abused the system of covert gathering of information and spied on several senior officials of the Security and Intelligence Agency (SOA) and several top executives of Agrokor.
The newspaper claims the abuse was discovered only recently, in an inspection of the secret services and the Telecommunications Monitoring Centre conducted by the Office of the National Security Council. The inspection revealed that police officers from the Office for the Prevention of Organised Crime and Corruption (USKOK) had abused their powers by adding telephone numbers for SOA officials and Agrokor executives to requests for printouts of telephone calls for persons under criminal investigation.
