President of Montenegro Jakov Milatovic will ask NATO to control how the new acting head of the National Security Agency is doing Ivica Janović received permission to access secret data, "Vijesti" learned in the president's office.
"The President will send a request to the NATO Office for Security to carry out an inspection control of the ANB's work, in order to check whether there was a violation of the security protocols in the permits for access to secret data, when it comes to the election (of Janović), taking into account that the ANB carries out security face checks for the purpose of issuing permits for access to secret data", said the interlocutor of "Vijesti" from the president's office.
"We are receiving information about the connection of the newly elected director of ANB with persons of security interest".
The interlocutor of "Vijesti" said that criminal charges will be filed against those responsible "if someone from ANB signs a positive security check (for Janović), and the specific checks show the opposite".
The NATO Security Office (NOS) coordinates, monitors and implements the Alliance's security policy, and is responsible for the exchange and protection of classified information that NATO shares with the services of member countries. ISO representatives regularly send inspections and control the registers of ANB and other state authorities that are in possession of such information and check compliance with security standards.
The current director of the NATO Security Office (NOS) is a US security official Gejl J. No, and at the same time he is the chief advisor to the NATO Secretary General for Security.
On December 12, Janović was appointed acting director of the National Security Agency (ANB), after being the head of the secret police until yesterday Boris Bato Milić resigned after talking with the prime minister Milojko Spajić.
"Vijesti" announced on Saturday that the new head of the secret police is a co-owner of the company "Gvardia", which he founded with a security-interesting face. Mata Bošković, whose property was raided seven years ago in an action directed against the Skaljar and Kavak clans. That company was founded in 2006.
At that time, the Government did not answer the questions of "Vijesti" whether Janović passed the security checks and whether any disturbances were registered, given that he has business contacts, i.e. that he is the co-owner of a company with a security person of interest who is listed in the police records as a member of the Skaljar gang. clan.
On Friday, Janović also did not answer Vijesta's questions sent by message, including how his business will be affected by the fact that he is in a business relationship with a person who is listed as a member of the clan in the police records, and what, according to Vijesta's knowledge, was to him interference when making an assessment.
A day later, Spajić said that Janović was legally appointed, because the Government is the body responsible for determining who should be the director.
"People from the security sector reacted positively, as did our international partners. The most important thing is that the man gives results, and we'll see if he will do that in the future," Spajić said in a guest appearance on TV Adria, assessing that Janović was recommended by the fact that he worked as a seaman in a shipping company whose employees smuggled drugs.
"Our sea border was the source of all evil in Montenegro, you know that most of the drugs come mainly by ships. Clans used the port of Bar and Kotor to import cocaine, our people were couriers and organizers on the ships, we also had cigarettes through the Port of Bar, human trafficking and many other unfortunate stories. So, someone who has a background in that sphere will surely contribute a lot to the understanding of risks from that sphere of national security," Spajić said the night before yesterday.
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Milatović announced the night before yesterday that in the coming days he will inform the public about the steps he will "take regarding the attack on our national security".
On Friday, his cabinet invited the competent authorities to determine whether the leadership of the National Security Agency (ANB) was given to a person who does not meet the legal requirements.
Janović graduated from the Higher Maritime School in Kotor, is a former seafarer, sailed on MSC ships and is a private entrepreneur with no experience in the security sector. He did not answer the newspaper's questions about his dual citizenship, such as the fact that he had recently renounced his Croatian. He allegedly does not even meet the requirements for schooling and work experience.
Milatović's cabinet announced on Friday that by changing the leadership of the ANB, the night before the EU's decision to close four chapters, including Chapter 31 (foreign, security and defense policy), "reintroduces the national security system into a state of emergency."
"This kind of government action, after the legal and institutional chaos that we witnessed during the election of the police director and the illegal attempt to replace the Chief of the General Staff of the Army of Montenegro, further confirms that there is an ongoing attempt to privatize the security sector and put it into the function of party and not state politics," they stated. are from the cabinet in the reaction delivered to the media.
The cabinet assessed that the appointment of a person without any experience in the security sector, who is only recommended by a "kinship-godfather relationship" with high-ranking PES officials, can be "characterized not only as a continuation of bad practice, "but also as an attack on our national security in moments of great international challenges".
"The Law on ANB stipulates that national security affairs, which include, among other things, the protection of the constitutionally established legal order, independence, sovereignty and security of Montenegro must not be left to persons who are citizens of foreign countries," announced Milatović's cabinet.
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