Despite the bluster and big words, the matter is slowly becoming clearer. But since the case has become political, there is no place for principles. However, there are traces
AT THE CENTER OF THE AFFAIR: Ivica Dačić
Questions about the affair with that suitcase with 100.000 euros - remember that? That Simic, the vice-governor? Well, that! They still remain unanswered. Minister Jočić was able to react to the writing of "Blic" even before that newspaper came out, but he is unable to answer the repeatedly repeated question: why was the money not traced to the final beneficiary, who - obviously - is not Dejan Simić? Why was the police operation stopped that night? Part of the public can have - and has - a full understanding of the difficulties of a government that rests on a coalition of incompatible parties and the even more unprincipled parliamentary support of socialists; former prime minister, Zoran Živković, in the last "Impression of the Week" after three years of silence, said that Ivica Dačić asked him for 50.000 euros per month to support the then government and that he refused it. Dacic denied it the next day. Did this government also reject Dacic? In the light of that question, it is clearer where the Zagrađanin came from with the suitcase at Dejan Simić's on that fateful January 11 evening. By all accounts, the mechanism of operation of the coalition company "Rogovi i Kopita" doo is starting to appear quite precisely; not to say that it becomes transparent, as it is called today.
So: since the Governor of the National Bank of Serbia, Radovan Jelašić, in an act of prophetic inspiration, announced last week that "according to the latest information" at his disposal, "Simić's detention will be extended" (Zagrađanina is not mentioned; why should he be?), so happened. He says that in thirty days it was not possible to examine all the witnesses; well, although we don't believe it: in thirty days a diligent investigating judge can examine many witnesses. Namely, the problem is not in the witnesses, but in the questions.
For example: one should ask who applied for and received a Cypriot visa on January 9, 2006? So, who asked how to open an account in the Cypriot bank Laika (otherwise, under another previous name, Borka Vučić's favorite bank, in those good times when Dušan Lalić started his promising career with it)? So, did any of the persons of interest book plane tickets to Larnaca, Cyprus on those critical days, January 9-12, 2006, and who?
Why? Because at the end of last year or the beginning of this year, in a certain hotel in Limassol, Cyprus, there was a meeting between local interesting persons and Israeli business partners; at that meeting, a payment mechanism for the balance of up to two million euros was allegedly agreed upon by Cizelj & Pijevčević & TBI Grupa on the one hand, and Dejan Simić and those he represents, on the other. So, the arrangement, the cover, was specified and planned a little earlier than it seemed if we stick to the official data. No wonder, when a person thinks: if he was already created adhoc an agreement within the banking and financial community to finally resist extortion, then it is done seriously and in a convincing manner, even as far as Limassol. When a person looks - quite logically: a cost-benefit analysis (cost/benefitsanalysis), a common banking method, was apparently positive. It is easier to invest 100.000 euros (which we later get back from the police) and pay hotel bills for artists in Cyprus, than to pay a racket of two million... All this can be checked quite easily, only if there is someone who will and if there is someone who will let him work. . As can be verified, who interrupted the planned police action on the evening of January 11, when Radovan Jelašić and Dušan Lalić were to be taken into custody (this is the son-in-law whose "biggest mistake was marrying Labus's daughter", as Mlađan Dinkić said before the other day, and Labus didn't agree, ha, ha! they both laughed sweetly, very funny, really).
It was only on Tuesday, February 14, 2006 that we learned that on February 2 of the same year, Governor Jelašić had a disturbing experience while driving to Topčiderska Zvezda in an "Opel Astra" (it is not said whether it was private or official and who was in vehicle): a white Mercedes Benz cut his way, stopped, rear-ended the governor's vehicle and then fled. Nothing is said about the registration number and those details, but the National Bank of Serbia expresses its concern in a press release... That is already something for the Minister of Interior Jočić: what he already has on his neck in relation to and around the National Bank ; he only needed this, with a full 12 days of delay, at that. Unless they didn't tell him immediately, and only announced it to the rest of Serbia on Tuesday.
In the meantime, two more interesting pieces of information came to light.
In the last issue, "Vreme" mentioned the case of Miroljub Aleksić, the owner of A Bank and Pionir from Subotica, the one who denied that he was involved in racketeering - although no one has mentioned him yet, but that's why he complained to the Americans, and then the racketeers from the National Bank of Serbia left alone. According to the knowledge of the author of this text, the police have in their possession a recording of one of the many telephone conversations between Radovan Jelašić and Dejan Simić. At one point in the video, Jelašić says to Simić (it's about Sekula Pijevčević's Credit Export Bank): "Be careful how you talk to them, so that we don't end up like in the case of A bank"...
Another piece of information is also illustrative: one of the most heavily racketeering companies was SIM osiguranje ("Semberija and Majevica"; a multi-interesting company from Bijeljina) owned by the famous Bijeljina tycoon Gavrilo Bobar, who has not yet denied that he paid for the racket; I guess he will now. So, that Belgrade-based SIM Insurance, which according to all criteria for insurance companies (and the controller is the National Bank of Serbia) should have lost its license a long time ago, was punished (like A bank last year) only by "temporary measures of stricter control for six months". ... The message is clear.
The operation mechanism of the coalition company "Rogovi i Kopita" doo is outlined quite clearly, according to this information: since we can threaten you (like Sekula Pijevčević who is now whining that his bank is liquid, but they don't give him permission, so he can't even pay utilities , let alone depositors), you better pay how much we screw you up. Otherwise...
And Ivica Dacic will already fit in as much as he needs; just so the government doesn't fall.
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