The workers of the former "Primorka" filed a criminal complaint with the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) against those who participated in the privatization of that company, whom they called a criminal group in the complaint.
They filed a complaint against the then Minister of Finance Igor Luksic and the then prime minister Mila Đukanović which they characterized "as leaders of an organized criminal group (OKG)".
They filed a criminal complaint for, as they stated, organizing a criminal group or participating in it for the purpose of obtaining legal property benefits, abuse of official position for an extended period of time, abuse in business operations, violation of the constitutional rights of workers and their families and "many other criminal acts that will be established by the prosecution through its work on the basis of the investigation and submitted evidence".
One of the signatories of that application, Edin Begzic, told "Vijesta" that they had been preparing it for a long time because they wanted it to be indisputable.
"When there were arrests in connection with the 'Primorka' case in 2017, only private individuals were arrested. One man, one person from the ranks of the state did not answer, even though even the sparrows on the branch know that the state is behind it," answered Begzić when asked what the main motives were. for submitting an application.
He believes that it is impossible for one private person, one bank to defraud the state and the entire state system and to take, not once, but twice more than five million from the budget without the accountability of civil servants.
The 216-page application submitted by the workers to the SDT contains 70 documents that they offered as evidence for the claims made.
"Time will tell if Mr. Novović and the people in the SDT are really someone who wants to solve the case of Primorka or if they are the new Milivoje Katnić and Ivica Stanković who will make a couple of apparent arrests to make it look like the system is doing its job," he said. Begzic.
The report was also filed against Ivica Stanković, Milivoj Katnić, Mira Samardžić, Ivan Medojević, Dragan Rakočević, Ivan Kovačević, Veljko Rakočević, Žarko Ostojić, Predrag Stamatović, Aleksandar Damjanović, Dritan Abazović and 15 other persons from the state administration at the time, including employees of the Ministry of Finance. Ministry of Agriculture, Commercial Court, Prosecutor's Office...
The employees of "Primorka" included all members of the 37th and 38th Government of Montenegro headed by Milo Đukanović with this criminal complaint, which "Vijesti" had access to. Just some of them are the then Minister for Economic Development Branimir Gvozdenović, Minister of Internal Affairs and Public Administration Jusuf Kalameperović, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management Milutin Simović and the rest of the 37th convocation of the Government of Montenegro.
Among the entire convocation of the 38th Government of Montenegro are former Deputy Prime Minister Svetozar Marović, Deputy Prime Minister Vujica Lazović, Minister of Foreign Affairs Milan Roćen and everyone else including Ivan Brajović, Branimir Gvozdenović, Slavoljub Stijepović...
In the criminal report, which they sign alongside Begzić Dragan Rondović i Gojko Boskovic it says that "for the very protection of the state and the state money that this OKG took from the budget, as well as the destruction of state property that is worth several million, we ask that you, and for the sake of the workers themselves and their families, make this case a matter of priority and upon receipt of this criminal complaint investigation without delay even though we are well aware that you are working at a reduced capacity".
As they state, they asked for this for several reasons. The first are the workers who have worked for decades in this company, although they are eligible for a pension, they cannot get it because the money that should have been given for the social program, i.e. the linking of work experience, was alienated from, as it says in the application, "the party named OKG".
They also state that although the workers worked regularly, they did not receive wages for their work, as well as many other benefits derived from their work.
"Because of all the above, the workers intend to seek protection of their rights before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, as well as appropriate financial compensation from the state of Montenegro, because the investigation will easily establish that the damage was caused by its employees, i.e. from the state of Montenegro itself," writes in the criminal report addressed to Novović.
The debt of over 600 euros expires on January 10
Former employees of JSC "Primorka" started various legal disputes as early as 2008, but still have not paid their claims. It is estimated that 165 workers are owed between 500 and 600 thousand euros, with additional debts for pension insurance, the exact amount of which is still being estimated.
Due to the verdict of the Constitutional Court regarding the constitutionality of the Law on PIO and amendments of the Government of Montenegro from December 2023, this debt will expire on January 10 of this year.
In an address in mid-December of last year, they said that it was incomprehensible that the Social Council did not even address the problems of former workers, called "victims of the transition", if it is known that from January 10, the statute of limitations for claims based on work arising from 2008 to 2024 begins. . years.
"Everyone in the state of Montenegro is generally aware that a huge number of workers were left without wages and without contributions, because there were no funds from the bankruptcy estate to collect those claims, while with the Labor Fund, as a public legal body, this is not possible from for the reason that the provisions of that law limit the right to payment and also give the same right to former employees whose work ceased to be necessary on the day of the bankruptcy as well as six months before the opening of the bankruptcy", announced former employees of Primorka Dragan Rondović, Gojko Bošković and Dragica Dragović at the time.
For this reason, the workers will submit a proposal to the Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution, as they announced in the conversation with "Vijesti", to start the mediation procedure in order to resolve this dispute as quickly and efficiently as possible.
In that proposal, it is written that the subject of the dispute are unpaid benefits based on work engagement, overtime hours, holidays, unused annual vacations, hot meals, holiday pay, winter leave and pensions.
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