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Political corruption in Serbia today is “more serious and never stronger,” said retired police inspector Sinisa Jankovic, a member of the former Interior Ministry Working Group for 24 disputed privatizations, which ran from 2012 to 2014.
Janković assessed that corruption in Serbia today is much greater than it was and “seems to have no end, until it literally enters the pocket of every citizen.”
In promoting his book “Face to face with political corruption” in the “Haven of the media”, he gave the impression that there was never a sincere will from politics and government to really tackle political corruption It was just a show for the people before the elections. who found it “.
“The government was not sincere in the fight against political corruption because it did not formally organize the Working Group either. It was done from today until tomorrow and lasted for two years and two months just because of the elections scheduled for 2014,” Janković said.
He assessed that the Task Force was a “strange operational creation outside the law”, so that from any moment, someone from the Ministry of the Interior could say “go home and you have nothing to look for.” Jankovic said that the term “political corruption” is so rarely present in the public, that it is not even in the European Commission’s report on Serbia’s progress towards the EU.
He explained that it is corruption that has to do with politics, that is, when someone from the government uses the position to “steal for himself, but also for the party.”
“Political power merges with so-called informal power centers, mainly economic power, as well as power in the world of crime. They just strive to get closer, to achieve joint influence,” Jankovic said.
As an example of political corruption, he cited the fact that the state leadership “organizes the so-called aid to” Azotara “by stealing the state budget.” Azotara does not obtain anything, but it does obtain private companies for which this aid was not intended.
Jankovic said “almost nothing” has been done in the six years since the Task Force’s work ended.
He assessed that political corruption “constantly undermines legal regulations and we fall into that trap, which is why we are constantly debating a law.”
He stated that the former Working Group in which he was, gave the maximum in relation to criminal charges written and officially presented for a total amount of around one billion euros, while in his book he speaks of “strong cases that have been detained “worth 300 million euros.
He said that his team also verified the business of JP “Srbijagas”, but the controls were suspended and the case, like many others, remained in the MUP. When the Task Force was dissolved, all the cases it worked on were “packed in a coffin”, and its members, police inspectors, were returned to their previous jobs at the Interior Ministry, Janković said.
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