Photo: Zoran Zestić/TanjugThe Minister of Mining and Energy, Zorana Mihajlović, filed a criminal complaint against the former acting director of the Electric Power Company of Serbia (EPS), Milorad Grčić. The report states that by acting negligently and exceeding his authority, he caused damage to the state of more than 500 million euros and threatened its security system.
The Minister of Mining and Energy, Zorana Mihajlović, claims that Grcic misled the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, the government and the relevant ministry when he said that EPS was ready for the winter season, and in that way he threatened Serbia's energy security, and thus the national security, and caused damage. more than 500 million euros, which put the state budget at risk.
Accusations are coming from the Ministry that Grcic falsely declared himself positive about the readiness of EPS production capacities for the upcoming winter season. According to the criminal complaint, Grcic claimed that Serbia is energy secure and that planned overhauls have been completed on all the coal lines of the surface mines of Kolubara, so that coal production in the winter months can be carried out unhindered.
It added that no government authority had received information about problems in the coal supply, and the first time the information was provided was when the collapse occurred on December 12.
In his farewell letter after he was forced to resign to the post of acting director of EPS, Grcic previously wrote: "If Ms. Zorana Mihajlović remains at the head of the Ministry of Mining and Energy for more than three months, if she leads that ministry for a single day after the election, our power system is sentenced to death, to complete ruin".
The war between the technical minister and the former acting director thus continues with an uncertain outcome.
Aleksandar Vučić and his team know best that Milorad Grcic did not become a "general" because of his competence. wrote the editor-in-chief of "Vremen" Filip Shvarm. That's why they kept him in acting status for years. Namely, Grcic is the image and opportunity of a transformer for the direct inclusion of EPS in the progressive party machinery. There is everything here, from recruiting personnel, to privileged businesses, to trading in influence. That collapse was just an inevitable side effect in this kind of business.
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