"With indignation and complete disgust, I reject the accusations of an NGO representative about my participation in smuggling of any kind," said the Prime Minister of Montenegro, Milojko Spajić, today.
He said this after the director of the Network for the Affirmation of the Non-Governmental Sector (MANS) Vanja Ćalović Marković announced today that Spajić was the Minister of Finance when the Bemaks company was smuggling cigarettes from the Free Zone of the Port of Bar.
Ćalović Marković said this at a meeting of the Committee on International Relations and Emigrants, during the debate on the Bill on the ratification of the cooperation agreement between the Government of Montenegro and the Government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the field of tourism and real estate development, as well as economic cooperation between the two countries.
"For the public's sake, thanks to the decision that I proposed to the Government as Minister of Finance in 2021, it is illegal to store cigarettes in a duty-free zone in Montenegro. Therefore, the Framework Agreement between Montenegro and the UAE cannot enable this because it is clearly stated that it is to be implemented 'in accordance with the legislation of Montenegro' which, I repeat, prohibits the storage of cigarettes in a free zone. No more funds are being selected," Spajić wrote on the social network X.
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