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Today I read the bluntly worded statement of Metropolitan Mihail and his guardian Duško Glendža on the website of the Montenegrin Orthodox Church, in which they accuse me of telling untruths. As someone who has been an admirer of the CPC for decades, even though I am a Muslim by religion, I find it very difficult what is happening in the CPC. Unfortunately, the fact that Metropolitan Mihailo, whom I saw as a personal friend, was involved in all of this is even more difficult for me.
Rather, let's start in order in their concluded and unforced statement, Metropolitan Mihailo and his guardian Duško Glendža mention 130 thousand euros, for which I accuse them of embezzlement. However, the truth is different, it is not about 130 thousand but about 120 thousand plus another 80 thousand US dollars, which we emigrants from the United States of America collected and donated for the construction of the temple and the improvement of the position of the CPC. We have been interested more than once whether that money was spent for the intended purpose and why it was collected. We were also interested in the fate of the documentation about it, as well as other numerous donations from the diaspora forwarded to the CPC in the first decade of the 21st century. We were left without answers. However, they did not count on the fact that I neatly kept all the evidence of those not small donations with me. Metropolitan Mihailo knows everything about it, as do several civilians from the top of the CPC, to whom I sent all that documentation by e-mail a few years ago. I didn't get the answers. I discussed all of this in front of witnesses in Cetinje during my recent visit to Montenegro directly with Metropolitan Mihail, his associates and persons whom I personally met then, and with whom I came to visit the Metropolitan. I asked the question several times about that 120 plus 80 thousand dollars, in front of all those people. Metropolitan Mihailo skilfully avoided the answer, always shifting the story to some other topic. However, in front of all those witnesses and Metropolitan Mihail himself, his guardian Duško Glendža repeated without doubt several times that he personally attended the act when documents about those and other donations from the diaspora were burned in front of the Episcopal Palace in Cetinje. Why was the documentation burned? Surely because the money was spent inappropriately, who knows in what way, surely it was just not for what it was intended for or for the good of CPC!
It would be good if Metropolitan Mihailo and his guardian explained where the money for the construction of the tomb and monument to the blessed Metropolitan Antoni was provided. Why is he "begging" citizens for money for that, when the same is provided? Why did he not allow the remains to be transferred to Cetinje? Why did he demolish the chapel of the blessed Metropolitan Antoni? What about the church near Rome? What about the property left to the CPC by the late princess Milena Petrović Thomson? There are many more similar questions, and unfortunately Metropolitan Mihailo and his guardian are engaged in scheming, intrigues, fabrications, in recent days we have also seen the writing of lascivious novels, all with the aim of concealing, there is no more dilemma, their criminal actions, financial malfeasance and worst of all according to the dictates of their principals from the GRU and BIA, the destruction of the CPC as one of the remaining pillars of Montenegrin statehood.
Finally, let me inform Metropolitan Mihailo that all the documentation on donations that I have, and which I repeat and sent to him a few years ago, was handed over to the judicial authorities in the United States of America, with the names of the witnesses, who were with me that evening in Cetinje at the Bishop's. The witnesses, and who they are, the Metropolitan and his guardian know, will tell the full truth about all this.
Mirsad Jahović
