The civic movement URA announced today that it will file a lawsuit against the Anti-Corruption Agency (ASK), saying that the agency succumbed to political pressure and used untruths.
"The persecution, spreading of lies and abuse of institutions for the purpose of dealing with political dissenters continues. It is our obligation to draw attention to the untrue and malicious claims of the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (ASK), which, due to its lack of courage to deal with officials who have caused multi-million damage to the state, is cheaply constructing a story about the accommodation, food and drinks of the vice president of the Civic Movement URA, Filip Adžić," the statement from the GP URA states.
The party has spoken out about the fact that the ASK decision states that the former member of the Cabinet of the then Deputy Prime Minister Dritan Abazović - Filip Adžić, who is also the Vice President of the URA GP, violated the Law on the Prevention of Corruption because he went on a donated trip to Dubai and Abu Dhabi in December 2021, which he had to refuse or inform the foreign donor that he could not accept such a gift.
The URA GP said that "in the case files with the ASK there are two letters from the General Secretariat of the Government of Montenegro stating that Adžić did not travel to Dubai as a public official in the performance of his public duties, regardless of the fact that he used his time to visit the Montenegrin pavilion at EXPO2020 and to informally meet for lunch with the head of the Royal Court in Dubai, Mr. Muhammad Al Shaibani."
"All of the above is clearly documented in the case files, and the aforementioned meetings and visit to the Montenegrin pavilion were presented to the public by Mr. Adžić himself. The entire content of the text is contaminated with blanket and extremely arbitrary allegations, without a single document or invoice confirming ASK's claims, which is why we will file a lawsuit against ASK, which succumbed to political pressure and violated its right to privacy by publishing untruths. Since Mr. Adžić traveled privately, there is no question of any obligation to report to ASK who he spent time with, what he drank, ate, and which tourist attractions he visited. For the sake of the public, we must inform malicious individuals that, in terms of the provisions of the Law on the Prevention of Corruption, a gift is considered exclusively a gift related to the performance of a public function, while in this specific case, this cannot be said, as is clearly seen from the letter from the General Secretariat of the Government of Montenegro," said the GP URA.
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