I did not receive a phone from Aleksandar Mijajlović as a gift and there are no fabricated messages from the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) that can prove otherwise, Danijel Živković, president of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), said in a statement regarding the telephone communication between Mijajlović and Živković, cited by the special prosecutors, which shows that the then MP of the strongest opposition party, on March 1, 2022, accepted the businessman's offer and arranged for the mobile phone to be brought to his apartment.
Živković points out in the statement that this is an attempt to morally discredit him, that it is revenge by the SDT, and that it is a lie to say that he received any gifts that he did not report.
"The Special State Prosecutor's Office, headed by Vladimir Novović, through the constructed process that began on Friday, has entered a phase of open political confrontation with all dissenters of the current clerical-nationalist government," Živković points out.
It is therefore completely natural, adds the president of the DPS, that in such a showdown that has begun, I too would be a target - as the leader of the strongest party in Montenegro that managed to resist the intentions of those who ordered this action - instead of the planned 10-12% support, the Democratic Party of Socialists today has a rating of close to 30%.
"This circumstance, as well as the fact that the current government is falling apart at the seams, and that the Prosecutor's Office could soon be formally delegitimized in the Parliament of Montenegro, was the red light that made the action that started on Friday morning official. An action that will have only one end - either Montenegro will win or we will have a totalitarian regime on the scene that, through Stalinist purges and public defamation through suitable media, should create an atmosphere of fear in which anyone can be a target," emphasizes Živković.
He said "that for any slightly better informed individual, everything that is happening is not a particular surprise."
"It was a matter of days before the fabrications and UDBA-style subterfuge, whose source is invariably Vladimir Novović or Predrag Šuković, and which, through fabricated and fabricated information created by the National Security Agency, are presented to foreign partners as an argument for the undesirability of the Democratic Party of Socialists, would be translated into an indictment - the official one that goes to court, or the unofficial one that is written on the front pages," claims Živković.
The DPS president emphasizes that "this whole mess of nonsense has taken an absurd turn - after months of spreading lies about how I got an apartment from Bemax, which I - and I thank him for that - had the opportunity to publicly deny with journalist Petar Komnenić, it has turned into an even more absurd claim - that I got, watch out: a mobile phone from Bemax, or Aleksandar Mijajlović."
"I guess when the Prosecutor's Office became convinced that I live in an apartment paid for by the Parliament of Montenegro and that at the age of 38 I still have an unresolved housing issue, they saw that they needed something new. Consciously trying to morally defame me in public because they assessed at least one thing really well - I care extremely about personal morality, honor and the protection of the integrity of my family. Because unlike them - who appointed my godfathers as prosecutors and assigned them security, I did not use my position to take care of those closest to me. What they clearly underestimated, however, is the fact that for the aforementioned categories - obviously unknown to them, I am ready to make a sacrifice - both human and political. But they must be ready for the same - in a functional sense, not in any other", explains the president of the DPS.
"And finally, to be completely clear – no. I did not receive a phone from Aleksandar Mijajlović as a gift. And there are no fabricated messages from the SDT that can prove otherwise. And I will be happy to answer all questions from the Special State Prosecutor's Office and the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption about the phone and everything else. Because this battle has certainly only just begun, and there will be an opportunity for us to ask the aforementioned gentlemen something. To begin with, at least one question – is it true that there is a Sky communication according to which, at one time, a judge of the High Court was given money for acquittals, and was he at least heard about it," Danijel Živković, president of the DPS, asks in the end.
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