The Special State Prosecutor’s Office will not initiate an investigation in the case of the alleged bribe offer to the Deputy Prime Minister Dritan Abazović, as there are no grounds for that, the Pobjeda announced.
Special Prosecutor Ms Sanja Jovićević stated in response to Pobjeda’s questions that “according to the Law on the State Prosecutor’s Office only information on actions taken can be provided, but their content cannot be revealed.”
Pobjeda has, amongst others, asked the Prosecutor’s Office whether Mr Abazović was questioned, whether he said who offered him money and why, and whether that person was interrogated. They have also asked will Mr Abazović be prosecuted in case he refuses to say who offered the money. They did not provide the answers.
Neither Mr Dritan Abazović answered the calls and messages of the Pobjeda’s editorial office.
The information that he was allegedly offered a bribe was first announced by the controversial Montenegrin businessman Mr Miodrag Daka Davidović, at the end of November last year, claiming that it was the renowned Montenegrin humanist Mr Hajriz Brčvak.
Both Mr Abazović and Mr Brčvak categorically denied the latter, even though Mr Abazović said that he had been offered a bribe. To this day he has not said who it was.
“It was obviously established, from the statement that Mr Abazović made before the prosecutor, that no one offered money. He might not have said that, but I assume the contents of his statement to be such that it eliminates the existence of any criminal act that is prosecuted ex officio,” lawyer Zoran Piperović assessed for Pobjeda yesterday.
He has pointed out that, given the content of the Prosecutor’s response, the only thing left is to trust the decision of the Special State Prosecutor.
A member of the Main Board of the SDP, Mr Bojan Zeković, assessed that “on a logical level, there are two possibilities – either Mr Abazović did not tell the truth in his first statement to the public, and changed his statement before the Prosecutor’s Office, or he refused to reveal the identity of the person who offered him a bribe, thus committing a crime, and the Prosecutor’s Office protecting him for some reason known to them.”
Mr Piperović believes that Mr Dritan Abazović owes an explanation to the public, especially due to the fact that this is a case that could have “reshaped the electoral will of the citizens.”
“I don’t know what Vice President Mr Abazović thinks about the curiosity of public opinion in terms of the right to know the truth, but I know that in his place, unless it was a matter of state interest or state secret, I would at least provide the public with an outline of what it was all about. Especially, because that offer could have reshape the electoral will of the citizens,” Mr Piperović pointed out.
