The National Security Agency (ANB) was a burden, they engaged in illegal surveillance, wiretapping, and we uncovered more than 30 scandals that we will present in the coming months.
This was stated by Democratic MP Boris Bogdanović during the parliamentary debate on the Proposal for Amendments to the Law on the National Security Agency.
He pointed out that there are 6.396 typed pages of conversations - created over half a year of monitoring and wiretapping of representatives of political entities, created, as he claims, on the orders of former ANB director Dejan Peruničić and former president Milo Đukanović.
"While doing so, they established the 'Udar.me' platform where they smeared everyone who opposed their dirty work. In previous decades, this was not the ANB, but an agency for smearing. We have uncovered over 30 scandals that we will present in the coming months, we discovered that two days before election day on August 28, 2020, from military warehouses, under the direct order of an Army officer, they issued - 100 automatic rifles, 15 machine guns, 26.000 bullets, 190 cannon shots, 50 shock bombs. Armament for a wartime military company of 120 soldiers, the equipment was transported in a white 'Toyota' with license plates PG-JP745 and was accompanied by two black jeeps with tinted windows in which were ANB agents. And when they entered the premises of the Ministry of Defense, the Colonel of the Army ZV ordered the military police not to identify people and check the car... And not to write down the license plates, while the cameras were turned off. All the equipment and weapons ended up in the basements of the ANB, the Intelligence and Security Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, and were also used by persons of interest to security. And among them was NT", he stated and asked what these people were doing in those premises on election day.
Bogdanović added that no one should call for accountability until these questions are answered.
A special controller is being introduced.
Deputy Prime Minister Momo Koprivica stressed that the Agency was a reflection of the "authoritarian system" previously led by Milo Đukanović, which led to abuses such as surveillance and wiretapping.
"During the rule of Đukanović, the Chief Special Prosecutor Milivoje Katnić was monitored and wiretapped, and there were illegally installed listening devices in his offices. He also testified to this, why as a prosecutor did he not prosecute it as a criminal offense? This also speaks of the subordination of all segments to a single political goal. These amendments to the law reorganize internal control of work, to check, examine and determine whether all measures taken by ANB officials are in accordance with the law, but also to determine their efficiency. A special controller is being introduced and he will be obliged to report all irregularities to the ANB director, and if he does not eliminate them, he will submit a report to the Government, which has grounds to take measures - including dismissal," Koprivica emphasized.
He added that the conditions for his election are also prescribed as an integrity check, so that the controller has the rights and duties of an advisor to the Prime Minister. Koprivica emphasized that these amendments define the reasons for the dismissal of this person, in the event that the data he collects through the application of legal measures by the ANB is compromised.
New Serbian Democracy (NSD) MP Jovan Vučurović said that this is the first step against anomalies in the security sector, and that it is all part of the fight against organized crime and corruption. He added that he believes that the ANB should have been disbanded and a new agency created, intended for citizens.
"If there is no will to dissolve the Agency, then let's come to fundamental reforms in it," he said.
Đukanović and Marković to come to the Inquiry Committee
Democratic People's Party (DNP) MP Milan Knežević cited an example when, as he claims, Western partners elected Sava Kentera as director of the ANB, and that this action in Montenegro represented a colonial pattern of functioning of a state that gained privacy from the Milo Đukanović regime.
He claims that the "latest version" of the ANB was responsible for the murder of Duško Jovanović, Pavle Bulatović, Slavoljub Šćekić, and that it was responsible for the formation of the united Škaljari-Kavački clan, and now those who were at its head are forming parties and becoming honorary presidents.
"So Duško Marković, the black box of Montenegro, is forming a party called the European Alliance (Party of European Progress, ed.) instead of being called Duško Alliance. He lectures us on European integration and closing the chapter, and there were so many deaths during his management of the ANB that the question is whether there were that many in World War II. I think that Đukanović and Marković should come to the Inquiry Committee and report their findings on whether Pavle Bulatović was killed because he planned to stop cigarette smuggling from the Port of Bar and Zelenika, whether Duško Jovanović was killed because he planned to publish documents about the criminal activities of state leaders led by Đukanović in conjunction with Italian mafias. Was Slavoljub Šćekić killed because he discovered a connection between mafias who worked for the state and racketeered both the state and the system," Knežević emphasized, and emphasized that he would support the changes, but that he believes that the personnel in the ANB should be changed.
Democrats MP Momčilo Leković added that before 2020, the ANB did not protect the state and citizens, but, as he claims, protected crime and clans, cigarette and cocaine smuggling, covered up murders...
Leković stated that this reform is a showdown with the dark past of the ANB, so that it becomes a guarantor of stability and a guardian of institutions.
NSD MP Dejan Đurović said that the ANB was devastated and that working in the agency meant "espionage of the lowest order." He stressed that he believed that controls and reforms were not enough to bring about fundamental changes in the ANB, but that he wanted to investigate everyone who had eavesdropped in the last 30 years.
"I want the ANB institute to return, for it to be an honor and obligation for whoever gets the job, and not for him to be given the epithet of the worst kind - a spy for the ruling establishment, which he was for 30 years," said Đurović.
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