"We will carry out the inspector's order, and then we will see what we do next," said Suškavčević, not ruling out the possibility that he may also sue someone for, as he says, the lies and injustice inflicted on him.
Determining that it was construction waste mixed with municipal waste, chief environmental inspector Vesna Zarubica gave Šuškavčević until Monday morning to remove the waste, and as she told "Vijesta" she will file a misdemeanor report against him in these two or three days.
"Now we cannot know how he will be punished, for now the most important thing is that he returns the waste to the landfill," said Zarubica.
The executive director of the city landfill, Momčilo Janković, stated that they will know how much Šuškavčević should pay for transferring waste to the Podgorica landfill, when they determine how much there is.
"What they told me so far is that it is mostly construction waste and a little bit of communal waste, when we make a selection and see what the quantities are, we will know the value of that," Janković explained.
The locals of Mahala believe that the owner of "Transpetrol" should have been arrested and demand that Šuškavčević be punished and held accountable for the illegal storage of waste and polluting the environment in which they live.
"If he's going to sue us for bringing us garbage, so be it, but he's guaranteed jail time," said one of the villagers.
Representatives of the NGO "Green Home" agree with the locals, and the executive director of that organization, Darko Pajović, who was on the spot yesterday, states that the crucial question is where the waste comes from and who allowed it all, and he does not agree with the statement Zarubice that criminal proceedings cannot be initiated against Šuškavčević, which this NGO will probably do.
"It is obviously a very organized business, we will seek answers from the competent institutions. This is neither the first nor the last landfill, and it seems that most of the waste is not left by citizens, as is often believed, but by companies with someone's political support," he said. Pajović, adding that this case is endangering people and the environment, which is certainly subject to criminal liability, not just a misdemeanor.
According to the Law on Environmental Protection, fines from one hundred to three hundred times the lowest labor price in Montenegro are provided for a misdemeanor committed by a legal entity or entrepreneur, and according to the Criminal Code, prison sentences from six months to eight years are provided.
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