Evo nas i u Independentu:
After a new leadership team took over the government in the tiny western Balkan nation of Montenegro for the first time in decades and began looking through the books, they found what they described as shocking levels of corruption under the reign of longtime power broker, president Milo Djukanović.
According to the newly elected prime minister, public budget reserves had been allocated to buy pricey private apartments for government cronies. What’s more, he says, paper trails had been obscured. Huge box-loads of documents detailing the use of public funds had been shredded. And that’s only within the government headquarters building on Karadordeva Street in the capital, Podgorica.
The new government has yet to come to grips with the alleged misdeeds of the previous government at other ministries.
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Reformers in countries like Montenegro, where a government led by Djukanović that had been in power for decades was defeated in elections last year, know they have a small window of opportunity to act. They say they hope to clean up their country’s books and image in order to join the EU. Adding to their woes, Montenegro along with Albania have become major way stations in the global narcotics trade.
“The fight against organised crime and corruption is a priority for this government,” says Krivokapić.
Montenegro has a long way to go. In 2015, OCCRP named Djukanović its person of the year for allegedly building “one of the most dedicated kleptocracies and organised crime havens in the world,” and the country as having “an economy choked by corruption and money laundering”.
But it would be easier to fight corruption for tiny Montenegro if there was a more serious effort to clamp down on corruption across Europe, including in eastern European and Balkan countries where graft, misuse of public funds and accountability are worsening.
“Corruption is not the problem of Montenegro alone but other countries as well,” Krivokapić says. “We urge the international community to help us to deal with this problem.”
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