Writes: Nebojsa Medojevic
Minister Mickey graciously called PINOKIO plans to form as many as 21 Directorates within his mega-gig of the Ministry. Not to mention how stupid it is to combine finance and work and social policy and that it doesn’t exist anywhere in the world.
It is obvious that Pinocchio received support from Krivokapic to take personal control over all positions where taxpayers’ money is decided.
We have seen that Pinocchio has a special tendency towards secret transactions with citizens’ money, and personal corruption in those transactions, which resulted in a sudden hoax and a luxurious life.
From a poor young misunderstood and failed guest worker who was hired by the Minister of Wild Construction in the Government to live in his house because he had no money, no dog, no cat, no studio, no Golf 2, to a Mercedes worth 100,000 euros in 6 months.
The propensity for criminal business and speculative corrupt financial transactions continued through the organization of the smuggling of 940 tonnes of cigarettes through the Port of Bar in May, where key people in the government took 9.4m euros or 100 euros per package.
Gambling with state money and private and secret arrangements with investment banks with the purchase of currency futures where we paid the Chinese bank EXIM almost 4M USD more than the contractual obligation.
However, with the latest decision to establish a DIRECTORATE FOR CRYPTO CURRENCY within its Ministry, it surpasses everything seen so far.
I have a well-founded suspicion that Pinocchio will involve the state in money laundering operations through cryptocurrencies, which are now increasingly used for payments between transnational drug cartels due to the anonymity of transaction actors.
All major international organizations for the fight against transnational crime point to new challenges that come from the sphere of transactions with cryptocurrencies. Interpol has issued special instructions to member police regarding capacity building in detecting and preventing the financing of organized crime and terrorism through cryptocurrencies.
Under the previous regime, Montenegro has been notorious for decades as a paradise for free and unpunished money laundering by transnational drug cartels, so Prva Bank and Hypo Alpe Adria Bank have been the subject of international investigators for years.
Montenegro is not a member of the EGMONT group of countries in the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing. Djukanovic abolished the independent Anti-Money Laundering Agency and thus excluded Montenegro from the EGMONT group. So Montenegro is a black hole for laundering and placing dirty money of the mafia from all over the world. Billions of euros of dirty money, both domestic drug cartels and the tobacco mafia, as well as international criminal partners, have been laundered through banks and fictitious companies.
Bearing in mind that the intervention of the international factor, and above all the UK and the USA, stopped cigarette smuggling through the Port of Bar, the mafia decided to turn Montenegro into a platform for financing transnational crimes and terrorism through cryptocurrencies.
The area of cryptocurrency issuance and projects is now a security issue, not an economic, financial or development issue. Many countries around the world ban cryptocurrency payments.
Montenegro under Djukanovic has much more developed institutions and mechanisms for money laundering than for the fight against money laundering. We have no trained staff, no specialized institutions, no experience, no international cooperation of financial intelligence services.
And now Pinocchio has decided to become a mobster and to officially drag the state and the Government into the international dark vilayet of trading virtual property of anonymous owners.
Transactions on the so-called “dark net” with cryptocurrencies are currently under the attention of all the largest security agencies in the world.
I hope that the Ambassadors of the USA, UK and Germany will notice the dangerous criminal potential of money laundering through the Ministry of Finance and the involvement of the state of Montenegro in financing transnational organized crime and terrorism and prevent this dangerous intention of Krivokapic and Pinocchio!!!
This Government is not only an open danger to the interests of this state and people, but it is also becoming a source of global security threats. If dirty money of the mafia is financed through Pinocchio and his financial mafia and terrorism is financed, Montenegro will continue even the darkest part of the Djukanovic brothers’ rule.
If PINOKIO meant the dirty money of the Chinese Triads or the Japanese Yakuza, when he talked about a billion euros of investment from Asia, then we have a huge problem.
Voters who replaced the former regime did not vote for this. We must defend Montenegro from this dangerous criminalization and pull it out of the clutches of global crime.
Colleagues from Democratic Montenegro, who so passionately support Krivokapic and Pinocchio, as well as colleagues from URA, will bear the greatest responsibility for supporting the mafia and money laundering.
After all, this Government needs to be overthrown!