Radovan Karadzic, Sarajevo is not your city, and you have no right to say that it is, just as you do not have the right to say in public, even if it’s in court, that someone has dug up bones around Bosnia and brought them to Srebrenica to make a fake graveyard. This is insulting.
Montenegrin Opposition Accuses PM of Smuggling
Belgrade | 02 November 2009 | Bojana Barlovac
In a series of interviews with journalists held in August, the Prime Minister's former ally Ratko Knezevic said that tobacco smuggling grew once Djukanovic took power in Montenegro in 1997, referring to the Prime Miniser as the “cartel boss”.
By 1999-2000 the illicit trade was worth several billion dollars annually, according to EU and US agencies. Djukanovic struck back against these allegations last week, saying that no proof has been presented ever since local media first started reporting on his alleged involvement in illegal tobacco trading in 2001.
"There is no evidence, neither old nor new," he said, accusing media of publishing lies in order to gain purported exclusives. In an interview with broadcaster B92, Medojevic, however, said that there is evidence that Djukanovic called for immunity in 2005 in order to protect himself.
He also believes that the order for the murder of the publisher of Croatian weekly Nacional, Ivo Pukanic, comes from Montenegro.
Pukanic, 47, was known for pioneering investigations into corruption and organised crime. He was killed, together with the newspaper’s marketing manager Niko Franic, last October when an explosive device detonated underneath his car outside his newspaper’s offices in Zagreb.
Ivo Pukanic was killed because of writing about criminal and mafia groups in the region. The most powerful criminal group in the Balkans today is surely the one operating in Montenegro. Not because it is strong itself, but because the state stands behind it,” the broadcaster quoted Medojevic as saying. The Serbian Special Prosecution indicted Sreten Jocic (aka Joca Amsterdam), along with two of his accomplices last week, on charges of ordering and organising Pukanic’s murder.
