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The hearing of Prime Minister in technical mandate Dritan Abazović, Minister Filip Adžić, as well as former Minister Ranko Krivokapić continued before the Committee for Security and Defense.
"The board is hearing the recent Acting Director of the National Security Agency Sava Kentera, Acting Supreme State Prosecutor Maja Jovanović, Chief Special Prosecutor Vladimir Novović and Assistant Director of the Police Administration Dejan Knežević, regarding current events in the security sector, with particular reference to the issue of possible cigarette smuggling and the area of international diplomacy", it is stated on the website of the Assembly.
The Vice President of the Board, Mevludin Nuhodžić, said that "this series of hearings" should end today.
"Our views, suspicions, need to be confirmed, to become valid, and we cannot establish that at this Committee. They need to be confirmed by the competent institutions", said Nuhodžići and added that "they should get the information they can from the authorities in the deaf room to give".
"By continuing to work in this way, we are getting into a situation where we are disavowing the work of this working body," said Nuhodžić.
The chairman of the board, Milan Knežević, previously read a letter from the acting director of ANB, Boris Milić, in which it was stated that the data of ANB are secret, collected in connection with ongoing actions, and that the legal conditions for the release of the former acting director of ANB have not been met. -a Sava Kentera from the obligation to keep data confidential.
DPS MP Danijel Živković said that cigarette smuggling has continued.
"Continued, under the premise, by people who are part of your political party," said Živković, addressing Abazović.
Živković further states that the question arises as to why the director of the Revenue and Customs Administration resigned.
"You advocated that those cigarettes be sold on the market, until your international partners told you that they should be burned. You wanted to legalize legally imported cigarettes. From that, we came to the situation that they were not even burned, but were sold on the black market. , under the auspices of the director of the Revenue and Customs Administration," said Živković Abazović.
Živković asked Abazović if it was true that someone from his party met with people who were recognized as persons of security interest and if the smuggling of cigarettes was arranged at the meetings.
Committee President Milan Knežević says that he and Andrija Mandić have been under secret surveillance measures for seven years.
Knežević says Kentera is a registered CIA agent.
Knežević also said that the plan was to present the Russian malignant influence in Montenegro in such a way that the arrest of Sekulović and his godfather would be carried out and the expulsion of Russian diplomats would be possible. According to Knežević, Kentera added a list of Serbian citizens to the list of Russians who were banned from entering Montenegro.
"When the partner services got it and when they saw the Russians, and then the Serbs, they no longer looked into whether the assessment was done in the right way. They just announced that the action should continue. And the action continued in such a way that the arrest of Andrija Mandić was planned and Me that Savo Kenter remained at the head of ANB", said Knežević.
"I will file lawsuits against Kentera, Krivokapić, Konjević, Drago Spičanović," said Knežević.
He said that he would do it because, as he claims, they wanted to present that he had installed "a Russian and Serbian agent in the National Security Council."
Prime Minister in technical mandate Dritan Abazović said that cigarette smuggling is clinically dead.
According to Abazović, "the situation with the truck was a set-up".
He says that he asked Rado Milosevic to resign because he changed the commission as a responsible person.
Abazović claims that the goal was to criminalize him. He also states what, according to him, a foreign diplomat told him:
"A foreign diplomat came and said: "What is being prepared is the same scenario as with Đindjić. So that if something happens to you, so that no one says that it happened because of the fight against crime, but because of the connection with crime. They drew a target for Mr. Živković your president, Peđa Bošković, Raško Konjević," said Abazović, addressing DPS MP Danijelo Živković.
According to Abazović, four people have so far "lost their heads" due to cigarette smuggling.
"They are Goran Žugić, Beli Raspopović, close to Milo Đukanović, editor-in-chief Duško Jovanović and Ivo Pukanić," said Abazović.
Ranko Krivokapić states that the spokesperson of the Serbian Customs announced that the service seized 2.6 million cigarettes, and that in the first nine months of this year, 80 million cigarettes were seized, mostly from Montenegro. In this regard, he says that the Serbian Customs charges Montenegro, under this government, with a 40-fold increase in smuggling.
DF MP Andrija Mandić said that any agent working for foreign services should be prevented from being part of any decision-making, especially in the security sector.
DPS's Danijel Živković believes, however, that it is symptomatic that the changes in ANB are taking place at the moment when the chain of Russian espionage is being broken and new light is being put on cigarette smuggling.
Savo Kentera said that he is "a man of Montenegro".
"The prime minister could have fired me on October 6. Zaharova said that we will pay for everything that happened," Kentera said.
"It was done at the international NATO conference as a slap in the face to the entire international community, while I was sitting with another head of service also of a NATO member, it was done on Putin's birthday. I don't believe in coincidences when it comes to these things," said Kentera, speaking about Abazović dismissing him.
Knežević, speaking about cyber attacks, indicated that it was most likely that someone used adult websites.
"As far as following my brother is concerned, it does not occur to me to deliver any recordings to anyone here. We, as a family, will defend ourselves with all permitted means," Knežević announced.
He also indicated that he is not a contact of the Russian and Serbian intelligence services, and that he is not the leader of such structures in Montenegro. As he says, Drago Spičanović checked his name on several occasions.
"Don't associate me, nor Andrija Mandić, with cooperating with foreign intelligence services. That's why I announced lawsuits and criminal charges. And if you need to question anyone, it's Milan Roćen, who is the main Russian man in Montenegro," Knežević points out.
"And as far as origin is concerned, Mr. Kentera, you are a Serb, and you can only be that when it comes to your family. If you return to your church and repent of your sins, I will withdraw the criminal charges against you," he added.
Kentera, responding to Knežević's review, said that he stated many untruths.
"Starting with the mention of Jelena Maraš, through whom we allegedly checked you, I will tell you right away that this is not the case. I had access to secret information as the president of the Atlantic Council," replied Kentera.
This was followed up by Knežević, who said that it was impossible for Kentera to have received secret information as a citizen, stating that Montenegro is therefore a "political colony".
Kentera emphasized that the efforts of various structures to discredit and humiliate the management and the five-month work of ANB are futile.
"You will not succeed in that, and I am sure that you will come at the end of this hearing and the entire process, come to me and apologize to me for all the speculations you made," he said.
During his presentation, Ranko Krivokapić reminded that the path of European Montenegro must be freed from the influence of Serbia and Russia.
In part of the resolution of the European Parliament, from July of this year, as he says, it is clearly underlined that Serbia, through the Church of Serbia, exerts influence on our country for the purposes of its destabilization.
Krivokapić pointed out that betrayal of the state should be condemned with the harshest means and that now, after a long period, it should really be punished in Montenegro.
"It is clear why SNS officials are prohibited from entering Montenegro. They came here to distribute money, to exert influence, and it is clear and very clear why they are prohibited from entering our country. Why are you, Mr. Knežević, here? you find offended, and it is more than clear. You are not only going to meetings in Belgrade, but you are also going to a meeting with the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić. So much for how independent you are," Krivokapić said.
In response to Krivokapić's evaluations, Knežević said that because of such convictions, criminal charges will follow, which will be sent in large numbers to the former Minister of Foreign Affairs today.
Speaking about the cigarette smuggling, Krivokapić stated that this is not a classic cigarette smuggling but a pair of exellence thefts of state property.
Filip Adžić told Krivokapić that he did nothing regarding the smuggling that took place during the former government.
"It's not that you didn't shout "hold the thief", but you pretended to be unskilled, and you're very angry now that we're shouting and holding the thief. But we won't stop," said Adžić.
To that, Krivokapić replied that he spoke and pointed to many businessmen who were suspected of being involved in cigarette smuggling.
"My actions show, and your actions for these three months show, that you have behind you a high-ranking party official who is directly involved and suspected of smuggling," Krivokapić said.
Andrija Mandić assessed that Krivokapić strongly advocates his novice political motives, just like DF politicians.
"I think you lacked breadth when you were in power in Montenegro. You pretended not to register the smuggling of cigarettes, at that time, and they let you achieve ideologically everything that is important to you," says Mandić.
In Montenegro, as Mandić says, Krivokapić imposed an anti-Serb, radical Montenegrin narrative.
"Couldn't we have come to an anthem and a flag together that we would all be proud of. But you created a schism, created enemies out of two brotherly peoples, and you left us a very difficult job that we have to solve," says Mandić.
MP Živković asks what about, as he said, "the famous hand of justice".
"There is too much talk, few facts, and we are not getting to the bottom line, which is to confiscate legal goods, and then enable the owners to get paid well from the budget, and thus sell legal goods on the black market," said Živković.
Abazović said that they stopped selling cigarettes.
"But how is the destruction happening in Montenegro, should it go to the Pljevlja Thermal Power Plant, how much will it cost the state, the transport to get there. It is logical that when people see something valuable, they will steal something," said Abazovć. and when asked which people he states:
"People who are corrupt, who are inside the system," replied Abazović, and when asked to clarify further, he said:
"Which specific, monogy people, I don't know now which specific, there were customs officers, there were people from the Customs Administration, there were things they did before, it was ... so I don't deceive people now", said Abazović
He states that "cigarette smuggling is continuously carried out by the blacksmith clan. It has branches in Podgorica and Rožaje".
When MP Živković asked if he believed that Milosevic was involved in smuggling, Abazović said "I don't think so".
"When DPS tries to defend Russian influence, they should remember Milan Rocen, the current adviser to the president for foreign affairs," said Abazović.
"Let the Prosecutor's Office be active about Sky communication, and you will be surprised, I will not be surprised," Abazović said.
Abazović said that he justifies the ANB's actions against the malignant Russian influence, but he does not justify, as he says, that "one such action is used, that some other premises are given to it in order to have a political story either against the prime minister or against some other political subjects". .
Abazović also said that he was not informed about activities related to cigarettes.
"And that is the direct responsibility of Kentera. He will say that he informed me about Milošević's behavior, and that was public, and I want ANB to inform me about something that I cannot know. When it comes to espionage, there was, but it's not about names," said Abazović.
Abazović said that everything he predicted happened.
"I think that in the spring, you go out with macadams on the asphalt," said Abazović.
"I'm not making a sacrifice out of myself, I'm going to the end in this fight, will the prosecution evaluate that...", said Abazović.
Knežević asked Abazović: "Are you planning to drive us on that macadam until spring. If you think that you will be the driver, and we will be driving and laughing in the back, we, Mr. Abazović, will get off that bus," said Knežević.
B.D.Z.
