Bogdanović: Montenegro is waiting for an answer to the question of where Aco Đukanović got his eye-popping wealth from

Democratic Montenegro MP Boris Bogdanović said that "Montenegro is still waiting for an answer" on where Aco Đukanović got all the property registered in his name.

Bogdanović spoke out after the Agency for Personal Data Protection and Free Access to Information (AZLP) initiated a procedure to supervise the implementation of personal data protection regarding the publication of Aco Đukanović's real estate deeds on Bogdanović's Facebook profile.

Bogdanović said that the essence of the AZLP letter is not in the letter, but in the fact that "the family that has ruled Montenegro for decades is used to no one asking them the simplest and for them the most difficult question - where from."

"Where did so many square meters come from? Where did so much property come from? Where did so much power come from? Where did the right to live privately like a feudal elite come from, while the people went through transition as if through punishment? Because the problem here is not the announcement, nor the real estate list, nor the cadastre. The problem here is that the people of Montenegro have once again seen what has been tried to hide for years behind surnames, behind positions, behind banks, behind companies and behind family wealth," Bogdanović said.

He added that "if the problem was a lie, they would say, this is made up," and that "since they can't say that, then they try to change the subject."

"And every time they don't have an answer to the question of where the property came from, they raise the question of who talked about it. It's an old reflex of a family that imagined itself to be above the state, above the law and above the people. That's why I repeat, Boris Bogdanović is not the topic here. No paper is the topic here. The topic is Aco Đukanović. The topic is his property. The topic is wealth that is a spectacle to all of Montenegro. The topic is the system that allowed one family to expand while the state was being plundered, to get rich while the people were getting poorer, to accumulate square meters while citizens were packing their suitcases."

Bogdanović said that answers to the following questions are still awaited:

"Where did Aco Đukanović get 20.000 square meters of business space? Where did he get 3.000 square meters of non-residential space? Where did he get 1.000 square meters of apartments and almost 1.000 square meters of ground-floor and residential buildings? Where did he get Prva Banka and how did a private bank get 40 million euros of state money, which he incidentally founded 64 years before he was born? How did he get 10,5 million euros in the Limenka affair? How did he buy 75% of the shares of the Republic Institute for Spatial Management for 2,7 million euros? And did he offer state money as a private guarantee."

He added that "the people of Montenegro no longer care who got upset because the truth came to light."

"People are curious about how one family came to have so much wealth while entire generations were leaving this country."

Bogdanović also announced that he would respond to every letter, question, and every procedure.

"But that won't change the essence. And the essence is that Aco Đukanović and the Đukanović family owe Montenegro answers... And the more they try to escape the question, the clearer it is that the question has hit right in the heart. And these questions will be asked until Montenegro gets answers," Bogdanović said.