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– Galloping public debt, various corruption scandals affecting the prime minister’s inner circle and reports from the European Commission and international institutions confirming the country’s democratic failures … This is Djukanovic’s Montenegro, which prosecutors from Bari and Naples have previously convicted of international cigarette smuggling. “Il Fatto Quotidiano”.
The analysis inevitably touches on the formally unsolved murder of Dan’s editor, Dusko Jovanovic, but also the fact that the US State Department labeled Montenegro a “mafia state.”
– Montenegro has never implemented reforms, it is characterized by very high corruption and vulnerability of the media. In these 30 years, there has been no shortage of hot cases related to scandals involving the prime minister’s family and the free press, while journalists have been threatened or killed. The most famous is Dusko Jovanovic, who was killed in 2004 by two perpetrators. As editor of Dan, the opposition newspaper, he has always been noted for cumbersome judicial investigations, but investigations have also been suspended because the weapons used for the assassination have been in military warehouses since the time of the former Yugoslavia. Local officials capable of shedding light on names and locations have disappeared along with witnesses, just as the US State Department has classified Montenegro as a mafia state, while the international NGO Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP ) has declared Djukanovic a “man”. years for organized crime – writes “Il Fatto Quotidiano”.
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The work of this NGO sheds light on the pyramid of Djukanovic’s corrupt mafia structure.
– In dedicated work, the OCCRP discovered the island, financed by Djukanovic’s family bank, which appeared to be owned by Stanko Subotic, accused several times of cigarette smuggling and a former friend of the prime minister. The atoll was managed by Djukanovic’s security chief. But the Subotic name is not the only downside associated with Djukanovic in recent years: Naser Kelmendi, Safet Kalic and Brano Micunovic, are three figures of the Montenegrin underground. Among other things, it turned out that Djukanovic’s family had the opportunity to bring the state bank under their control when it was privatized. In that institution, the government would make important public investments. But when loans made to a select few were not repaid, Djukanovic tried to save the family bank, thanks to an ad-hoc law passed in parliament when the majority were permanently in the hands of DPS, media reported, highlighting the criminal practices of his regimen on other issues. which are the sale of the Montenegrin coast, a billion dollar loan for the construction of 41 kilometers of highway, the provision of 300 million state guarantees for loans taken by private companies and more.
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