The company OHM Mamula Montenegro, which is responsible for the management of the project of transformation and reconstruction of the island of Lastavica and the fortress of Mamula into a hotel resort, did not give permission to shoot a video at that location to any production company or any performer, it was announced today from the Egyptian-controlled company - of the Swiss consortium "Orascom".
Media from Serbia announced that local folk star Svetlana Ceca Ražnatović recorded a music video for her song "Angel of the Second Order" on Mamula about fifteen days ago.
The "Kurir" daily, referring to its sources, announced that Ceci island with an old Austro-Hungarian fortress was given to "a foreign businessman who owns the island" for the filming of the video.
"Svetlana Ceca Ražnatović bewitched a millionaire, who gave her the island of Lastavica, known for the Mamula fortress, in Montenegro to shoot a music video for the song "An angel of the second order". That businessman, who is from abroad, did not meet our folk star, but he heard about her and is fascinated by her life and work," writes "Kurir".
By the way, the Egyptian businessman Samih Saviris is behind "Orascom", but, as they say in his daughter company "OHM Mamula Montenegro", which was founded to manage Mamula, which the Montenegrin government gave them on a multi-decade lease, he has nothing to do with the recording of the video. Serbian folk divas on an attractive island at the entrance to the Bay of Kotor.
"We did not give permission to shoot the video at that location for the simple reason that the company did not lease the island since the long-term lease agreement had not yet entered into force. Also, no member of the management of Orascom Development Holding as the parent company of which OHM Mamula is a part Montenegro, including the majority owner and the chairman of the Board of Directors, did not have any contact, nor did they receive any request from the production companies involved in the recording of music videos or from any music artist," Dragana Bećirović, PR advisor of the OHM Mamula Montenegro company, told "Vijesta".
Ražnatović herself wrote today on her Facebook profile that the filming of her video on Mamula, which was done on March 13 and 14, has nothing to do with "Orascom" and that the permission to use the island as a scene for the video was given by JP "Morsko dobro". from Budva led by DPS official Predrag Jelušić.
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