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It’s not that crazy anymore, it can’t be more crazy tomorrow. And that’s the only “law” that applies here. That is why I cannot say that I was very surprised when I received a “notification” in late July this year that a request would be sent to the bank tomorrow to send all transactions from my private account and from the company account. I ran to the Directorate for Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing, stated “New Economy” editor Biljana Stepanović in the author’s text on the NUNS website.
It should be recalled that the interstate body for the prevention of money laundering, the FATF, reacted six months after the public in Serbia learned of the intentions of the Administration for the Prevention of Money Laundering to “comb” the accounts of numerous public figures, NGOs and the media. “, It was published on the Raskrikavanje.rs website.
Boljana Stepanović’s text from the NUNS portal is transmitted in its entirety:
“Under normal conditions, in a country that functions normally, and not completely abnormal, I would probably have a stroke at that time. But now, nothing. I wonder if I will not get angry. But still, I decide to tell my husband, my children , my sister and some best friends who, regardless of what they hear or read about me in the next few days, don’t believe in anything and don’t worry, I’m clean, I guarantee it.
I scared them so much, I shouldn’t have called.
For the next few days, you are helpless, sitting and waiting for it to come. It would not be the first time, on the contrary. But money laundering and terrorist financing are somehow overly exaggerated to the point that they are surreal and that paradoxically calms me down instead of angering me. At some point, a colleague responds and asks: do you know who is on the Directorate’s list? I mean – I know, but I don’t know there is a list. At night, I watch Newsmax Adria and I realize, okay, the madness has taken hold, but here they just played: 37 civil society organizations and independent media, plus 20 people (me on both lists) will be the subject of an investigation . by the Administration to see if Of all the possible candidates in this country, by chance, we have financed international terrorists – that I know there are none in Serbia – and money laundering.
Where can I find terrorists to send money to? And what about sending them money? And what money? Well, a big one, that came into my account from somewhere so that no one would notice until now, and then I stayed to pay the terrorists when we pay all the expenses, we pay salaries, fees, printed newspapers, rented space and everything. plus. Certainly, international terrorists cannot be offered anything. But what if all of our yearly income is really low? You can see that with two clicks on the website of the Commercial Records Agency (APR), I think that this action should not be taken.
I suppose that the bank, as it is required by law, would indicate to Management that there are some suspicious transactions with me that should be reviewed. For example, just like then, look at the miracles, the banks did exactly with the accounts of the current Minister of Finance, Siniša Mali.
Portal KRIK, one of the media on the Administration’s list, wrote on several occasions that the Anti-Corruption Agency and the Anti-Money Laundering Administration pointed out “several problematic monetary transactions of the current Finance Minister Siniša Mali”. But all the proceedings that were initiated against Minister Mali, the former mayor of Belgrade, have in the meantime been suspended and no investigation is being carried out against him. It is pure and innocent like a baby.
“I do not see why the knowledge of the transactions of individuals or non-governmental organizations would be a problem, if something is not hidden,” the Mali minister wondered, but not about his, but about our case. Your problem with 24 Bulgarian apartments has been solved, responds to Ms Stepanović. I assume the lady found out from the Bulgarian graphologist.
Well then Mali is innocent. What about 20 people and 37 organizations and the media? We don’t know, the Directorate doesn’t tell us anything. Visibly ambitious and obviously compliant (acting course) head of the Board of Directors, Zeljko Radovanovic, took off at the beginning and declared that these were “regular activities”.
Well, but that is not in accordance with the law, in accordance with valid law, there must be an explicit basis for suspicion. How exactly did you choose us? It’s not just us, he says. And who else did he choose? It won’t say that.
Zeljko then corrects himself a bit and adds that “the Administration did not act from the aspect of the concrete suspicion of having committed any crime, but used several indicators, from the size of income, the proportion of donations and income, the criterion of the Interstate Anti-Money Laundering Body (FATF), and also took into account whether the funds came from countries that were marked as risky. ” It seems that someone has already ordered him to shut up.
So I decided to turn the game around. As a journalist, I have the legitimate right to ask government agencies, including the Directorate for the Prevention of Money Laundering, some questions:
– Why is Serbia on the black list of the FATF, the international body for the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing as a risk country, along with Ghana, Ethiopia, Syria, Pakistan and the state of Vanuatu? Who exactly caused it and in what way? Aren’t they journalists and non-governmental organizations?
– What exactly are the cases of money laundering that the Administration for its prevention has discovered, investigated, presented the results, sent to the Prosecutor’s Office and processed so far?
– Has the Administration stopped at least one capital transaction that was suspicious during the privatization, prevented said privatization and brought criminal charges against those responsible before the Public Prosecutor’s Office?
– What part of the large tax evasions and misappropriations investigated and determined was presented to the Tax Administration so that the necessary measures can be taken?
– How many control procedures did the Tax Administration carry out on large suspicious transactions and what exactly did it find?
– Are capital transactions controlled and, for example, the income of buyers of real estate in Belgrade in the water, multi-million dollar values, counter-examined. Or, in Serbian, where do all these buyers get so much money to buy large apartments, duplexes and penthouses for 4-5,000 euros per square meter?
– Who are the buyers of other properties worth a few million euros in exclusive locations being built in Belgrade?
– Who are the builders of monumental buildings, hotels and other buildings that were damaged in Kopaonik and Zlatibor, for example, and where did they get their money from? The banks gave loans to all and with what guarantee?
– Who are the gentlemen and ladies who buy land in Vojvodina and where does their money come from? Can they prove income? Can you determine who the end customers are?
– The Administration’s website indicates that the sectors most exposed to money laundering are the real estate, gaming and banking sectors, followed by exchange houses, casinos and accounting firms. Was anything found there?
– Since on March 1 of next year the cross-examination of property and income (mainly state officials, and not opponents of the government) was announced again, if it will be determined with what property the Babic air force came to power in 2012, then Bata Gasic, the Toncev brothers, my aunt’s little Vulin, the state of Mali and others, and what do they have now?
– And finally, what has the Directorate for the Prevention of Money Laundering found in our 57 cases? She didn’t waste taxpayers’ money and resources, did she? I guess she wasn’t just trying to get new material for the tabloids, so she could put us through that machine to grind people, when we won’t shut up anymore.
I would like to have a personal address for Mr. Zeljko Radovanovic, in the form of a proposal: either you declare which terrorists I financed with what money, or I will be patient and wait for the conditions to be met, so that I can ask you through the competent authorities for What do you violate the law and your powers, why did you commit a crime, persecute me and embarrass me? That job doesn’t quickly become obsolete, I’ll wait. That would be my message to other officials who are now breaking the law under pressure from the authorities: don’t do that. Aleksandar Vučić will leave one day, Siniša Mali will be Mali, we will see, and you will stay with us and your (bad) actions. Be honorable people. To oppose to.
Don’t be Zeljko. “
