the mafia and the truth

Hold the thief

A bunch of lies, hoaxes, forgeries, half-truths. I guess now, with the same zeal and perseverance, he will move on to the loans of Đukanović and his colleagues.
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Milo Đukanović, Photo: Savo Prelević
Milo Đukanović, Photo: Savo Prelević
Disclaimer: The translations are mostly done through AI translator and might not be 100% accurate.
Ažurirano: 27.11.2013. 10:32h

Mark Twain wrote a long time ago that "while a lie goes around the world, the truth is just putting on its shoes"! Although denying lies and propaganda is as pointless as picking feathers, from time to time, they should be pointed out. Both for friends and enemies. We owe it to the first, the others need to be exposed. Once more.

Namely, although as early as 2010, the private newspaper M.Đ. which is financed with the money of all the citizens of Montenegro, sang about the loans of the co-owners of Vijesta, these days the same newsletter repeated the story and that on the front page. Four co-owners received a loan of one million euros for 20 years, 6,5 percent interest! In the original version of the police file signed by the editor-researcher SK, this fact was spun in such a way that by getting a loan, the co-owners of Vijesti became millionaires! When they were told that such thinking stems from their experience of robbing the state and citizens through Prva Banka, which, according to foreign researchers, served as a "cash machine" for friends and partners of the leader, they fell silent. Now, the prime minister's babies spin the other way - how was the low interest rate, long repayment period, insufficient guarantees, even if the money of a private bank was in fact state money?! Earth, open up. In both cases, the goal is the same – to replace theses with deafening noise based on lies and hoaxes, and to sweep the Prime Minister's credit borrowing, which caused a scandal in the Parliament, under the carpet. Not a word in these articles why the co-owners of Vijesta asked for those loans, how and when they returned them! Because if those facts were published, then the spin and lying of the seasoned doctor would burst like a soap bubble. And that is the essence of the story.

Let's repeat it once more: since October 2006, Đukanović and his partner Stanko Cane Subotic have been trying to take over the editorial policy of Vijesti. In the summer of that year, we received information from the top government to keep an eye on the newspaper "because Milo and Cane are going to steal it from you"! Hidden from the name of the reformed German publisher WAZ, which until then was a co-owner of 50% of the company, but without the possibility of influencing the editing of the newspaper. For almost a year, behind the scenes, unprecedented terror has been going on against the co-owners of Vijesta, their families, so that they would agree to withdraw, surrender and sell the paper to the mafia. But, in vain. The manhunt culminated in a physical attack on the director of Vijesti on September 01, 2007, whose principals and perpetrators have not been discovered to this day. Which speaks of the responsibility, and thus the complicity, of Đukanović and his colleagues in that waiting period.

After that event, the local co-owners of the paper told WAZ that they no longer want a partnership with someone who contributed to the aforementioned sachekusha with his secret one-year affair with Đukanović. After that, the procedure of separation of partners was started in accordance with the statutory provisions. WAZ sent a letter in which it offers the co-owners of Vijesti 4 million euros to buy 50% of their shares! An ideal chance to become, as Magloid would say, millionaires! Money was obviously not a problem for Milo and Canet, so, in typical mafia fashion, they raised the real price of the company by at least 100 percent and sent an "offer that cannot be refused"! But, 4 shameful co-owners of the newspaper refused that offer! And announced, in accordance with the Statute, that they will buy 50% of WAZ under the same conditions! There was silence at the Court. As this thriller lasted for almost a year, the local co-owners prepared the ground for such an outcome and agreed with the American investment fund MDLF, which has been supporting independent media for a decade and a half, on various continents and in various ways, to enter and take over the shares of WAZ- a. When the aforementioned offer arrived, MDLF needed a month to formalize such an intention through its governing bodies. Milo and Cane, knowing about it, because they regularly eavesdropped on our conversations and read our e-mails - they give a deadline of 3 days for us to respond to the offer, and a week for the funds to be paid. They knew that we didn't have the money to pay them, they expected that every Montenegrin bank would obey the Prime Minister's order to reject every request of the co-owner of Vijesta for a loan! And there he was mistaken. It is true that thanks to Milka Ljumović, CKB approved us a loan, under actually stricter conditions than those for which it approved hundreds of millions of loans in 2007! Just as it is true that her suffering today is a consequence of that "sin" of hers! In fact, she is the most deserving that Vijesti was defended at that most critical moment in our history - Đukanović never forgot or forgave her. After all, that's one of their laws - the mob never forgives. The families of Duško Jovanović and Slavoljub Šćekić know this. Milka Ljumović was also convinced of this, in a different way.

So, the co-owners of Vijesta get 4 million loans, 80 percent of which they pay back after a month!!! When MDLF enters Vijesti and buys 40% of the company's ownership. The remaining 20 percent of the loan was repaid in accordance with the individual possibilities of the co-owners, some in the next few months, some after a few years. In any case, a long time ago, and well ahead of schedule. This is the mafia spin: in any normal country, the four owners of Vijesta would be celebrated for refusing mafia gifts and preserving the paper's independence - here they are trying to vilify and cast doubt on them. In order to achieve the main goal: "Hold the thief" screams Baby to hide the real one, his boss and his 4 credits, about which he received a common parliamentary question?! The question, they say in Pozitivna, was sent on Monday, and the Magloid "exclusive" appeared on Tuesday! Which they brag about. Although they have nothing to do with authorship. The "exclusive" was written in the spin doctor's office, all in an attempt to make sense of a serious journalistic investigation into the fate of his boss's loans, for which it is not known how they were obtained, nor how some of them might have been returned, nor which ones, on the other hand parties, not yet returned! Not even after more than 6 years! What's worse, some of those loans were not only not repaid, but the indebtedness of the prime minister and his companies to the banks increased with the same dynamics as the state's indebtedness to creditors grew. The opposition mentions money laundering, corruption, crime. The prosecution is silent. On the other hand, for a full 6 years they investigated every credit of every member of the family of the co-owner of Vijesti and the result was a story in Magloid! And this reprint. A bunch of lies, hoaxes, forgeries, half-truths. I guess now, with the same zeal and perseverance, he will move on to the loans of Đukanović and his colleagues.

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