Đukanović: Let the leaders of ASK prepare for the process

AUTHOR:M.J. GDNUS

Former President of Montenegro Milo Đukanović reacted to the article published in the daily newspaper “Vijesti” under the title “Hundreds of thousands for fashion and hotels”.

We are reporting Đukanović’s reaction in full:

The article published today in the daily newspaper Vijesti is nothing more than a continuation of the joint action of media and non-governmental stalkers who have had no other job for a couple of decades than to put pressure on the judicial authorities to fulfill their obsessive dream and arrest Milo Đukanović. It is not easy for them to live with such torment. And there is no need to add much to this punishment. Because, one of their foreign mentors might be shaken that a possible lawsuit against them will endanger Montenegrin democracy. That is why my focus is on state structures.

In this case, on the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption. The responsible people in it are abusing their duties to satisfy the need for sensation of parts of the current government and part of the media-non-governmental criminal-racketeering clan. Also, to settle accounts with the previous management of ASK.

Because of this, they will have to go to court, according to a lawsuit that I will file immediately. Obviously, it was hard for them to remember in the ASK archive the information that I personally gave them, through regular annual reports that I submitted to ASK. Only in the period from January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2010, I reported an income of 377,632 euros based on the rental of business premises.

Also, I reported to the competent authorities and the public of Montenegro the profit of the company of which I was 100% the owner and duly paid the profit tax.

And the new ASK management is trying to problematize the question of where I got, as they say, about 230 thousand euros for spending via bank card in the period of 9 years, from 2007 to 2015. By suggesting to my media enemies a populist intriguing topic: what I spent my money on.

The answer is very simple: I spent my money on what I wanted. Without the need to consult these stylists about fashion and where I would sleep on my trips. And what was the need? To travel privately and dress at the expense of the state? To base my standard of living, like my critics, on donations from Western institutions that believed that they were thereby encouraging the democratization of Montenegro? Or perhaps on donations from Telekom Srbija and Russian oligarchs?

Let me also mention that the opinion of the Agency for Personal Data Protection and Free Access to Information was recently published, which explicitly disputes the right of ASK to dispose of data on citizens' bank accounts. Since this ASK work was obviously undertaken for the purpose of sensationalist media coverage, in another unsuccessful attempt to discredit me, it was treated with the description of criminal offenses in the Criminal Code of Montenegro.

Therefore, let the ASK leaders prepare for the process.