The Network for the Affirmation of the Non-Governmental Sector (MANS) calls on citizens to report to them all cases of pre-election abuses, especially vote buying, and asks the prosecutor's office to determine where the money used to buy identity cards comes from.
"MANS in the previous period discovered that significant budget funds intended for social benefits were used to buy votes on the ground, while now the direct connections between the drug lord Darko Šarić and high-ranking officials of the DPS and the Government of Montenegro have opened up room for suspicion that pre-election malfeasance is also financed from dirty money obtained from the sale of narcotics. A recently published video shows that the purchase of votes, i.e. identity cards, has already begun. It states that in Podgorica, an identity card costs 90 euros, with the note that this price was also valid in last year's elections elections," the statement of this NGO states.
MANS calls on citizens to fight for free elections, to record and photograph people who buy ID cards or otherwise exert pre-election pressure on voters.
"If they cannot provide evidence of pre-election corruption themselves, we invite them to provide us with information about persons who commit criminal acts against electoral rights and we will investigate each of these cases and protect the identity of the persons who reported corruption to us," the statement said. of MANS.
This NGO notes that citizens have at their disposal a new, secure online registration system, which provides encryption and protection of their data at www.prijavikorupciju.me.
"Since this is not the first or only case of the reported purchase of identity cards, we expect the state prosecutor's office to finally conduct a serious investigation and determine whether it is an organized group that commits criminal acts against electoral rights, instead of dealing with mere perpetrators, as was the case before it did," the MANS press release points out.
This NGO says that the first question that the Special Prosecutor's Office needs to answer is where the money for the purchase of identity cards comes from: from legal or criminal sources.
"That is, whether it is money from the Democratic Party of Socialists, misuse of state funds, or money coming from the shadow economy or criminal activities. This is especially because evidence was published about the ties of high-ranking officials of the Government and the Democratic Party of Socialists to the organized criminal group of Darko Šarić , and these same persons are at the same time the actors of the "Snimak" affair. Since Šarić's company was gifted the extremely valuable land of the Budva football club "Mogren", the question arises as to what the involved officials of the DPS received in return", says the statement of MANS .
Because of this, this NGO calls on the prosecutor's office to investigate the connections between the leadership of the DPS and the drug clan of Darko Šarić and determine whether money from cocaine smuggling is used to buy votes.
"While Boro Lazović, the main link in the decision-making chain about giving away wages, was pampering voters in Budva, Minister Petar Ivanović and his assistant Radulović managed the famous Midas program to help farmers, which is suspected to have been widely used for pre-election vote buying," they claim. from MANS.
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