It's no use trying to prove that high corruption exists in Serbia. She is simply unimaginable. And then the canopy of the newly renovated train station (pictured) falls and kills 15 people. And the bubble burst and lies, theft, crime and corruption began to pour out of it
Let's clarify right away: Serbia is probably the only country in the region where there is hardly any high level of corruption. If the reader immediately revolts against the accuracy of this sentence, let him remember the last time he heard that someone was convicted of high corruption, and even better, the last time he heard that someone's property was confiscated due to high corruption.
After all, the judicial practice in cases against journalists is clear: both the prosecutor's lawyers and the court intensively ask journalists to show where there is a court ruling that says the same when they point out that someone is breaking the law. Therefore, if the court did not rule - it did not even happen.
WE ARE TOO FAIR
We'll start from the top. The president is pure as the sun. Even when he advertises different types of products on his social networks, he never receives a single dinar for it. All the expensive wardrobe and shoes that he shows on every occasion comes from the fund, which no one knows in which institution it is. The president has never agreed, persuaded and negotiated beyond his authority regarding overpriced and unnecessary works, ordered that a road be built here, and that an old factory that has not been working for 20 years be started there, especially not because in that way secured votes for himself in future elections.
The eternal acting director of "Roads of Serbia" never calculated for the president "off the top of his head" how much a certain road would cost, and the president never laughed at it and said that the director was asking for too much - this is not possible to happen in Serbia since for all the works and services needed by the state, there is a transparent process of public procurement, in which sometimes even more than one bidder appears.
And in general, not only for large jobs, there are no fixed public procurements in Serbia, because that one bidder always knows where to contact, and other bidders also know where not to contact. This is exactly why the new Criminal Code proposes that prosecutors' offices do not consider purchases of less than five million dinars at all - we are too honest, at least up to the value of 40.000 euros.
Even though the biggest deals are completely exempt from the fair system of public procurement, they are not permeated with corruption, because the state has completely transparently signed interstate agreements with various countries - our great friends - and then signed contracts based on those agreements. Admittedly, these contracts are secret and not a single word of them must be leaked to the public, but, on the other hand, are you going to say that we and our great friends are susceptible to corruption?
For example, the state would never sell the land of a domestic company for less than 5000 euros per hectare, and then buy the same land for half a million euros per hectare. Nor would it ever happen that, just like that, some kind of plantation with hundreds of kilograms of marijuana, in whose protection members of the security services take part, happens. Speaking of them, the security services have never eavesdropped, nor followed, nor detained various oppositionists, activists and other persons to whom the Most Important Man is not that important.
CASES THAT NEVER HAPPENED
Look at how things are in the ruling parties: the minister's father never participated in the sale of weapons that damaged a domestic state enterprise for 16 million euros. The minister was never caught talking to a cocaine smuggler, nor was he told to leave the room with a suitcase full of money before the police raid.
It has never happened to any minister that he was caught having 24 apartments in Bulgaria, nor that his friends from abroad pay him 60.000 euros a year for the education of his children.
There has never been a case of money laundering, where a high-ranking official - who is barked at by a dog in charge of drug detection - brings in 200 euros at a time from Canada, until he reaches XNUMX euros and buys real estate with that money.
Money laundering in which the ruling party received almost 7.000 payments of 40 dinars each during the campaign for the presidential elections never happened. The president explained it well - two men are sitting in a bar and then a third man comes with 800 euros and tells these two to pay half: what is not clear in the mother's, sorry, the president's words?
These two cases never happened, which was established by various prosecutor's offices - one dropped the case, the other the case was time-barred.
So what does this mean - that maybe the prosecutor's office and the judiciary are not corrupt?
IT DOESN'T HAPPEN IN THIS COUNTRY
Not at all. For example, it has never happened that the court illegally suppressed some evidence and thus helped the "controversial businessman" get an acquittal. No prosecutor's office has ever watched from their windows as a new city sprouts up, the foundations of which are soaked in corruption and, by God, blood. The same prosecutor's office never said that the demolition case in Savamala was solved because a policeman who had the bad luck to be on duty that night was convicted.
It is impossible to imagine that in Serbia a man will be sentenced for a serious traffic accident in which one person died, and that two crucial minutes of the video remain unavailable to the court - the video that the president watched and commented on.
No prosecution has ever been swayed by a statement from a Very Important Man in its investigation - when the Best Among Us comes out and says that an investigation will be very difficult or that there is a lot of evidence in another case and that an arrest should be made immediately, the prosecution cares. like last year's snow and immediately the public prosecutor goes on TV to announce that this is an undue influence on the judiciary.
Similarly, our prosecutor's offices are extremely agile and proactive - as soon as word reaches them, they react. Whenever investigative journalists write a text about corruption, enough to just pack it into the cover of the prosecution and file an indictment - they act immediately, and in such a way that it has never happened to them to immediately dismiss the case saying that there is nothing there or that they are faking dead and silent in their invisibility and namelessness.
There is no evidence that any of the prosecutions had the Godfather of Very Important Persons magically evaporate both cocaine and alcohol and physical injuries after the traffic accident he caused. In Serbia, it has never happened that in politically sensitive cases, the prosecution and the police play ping-pong - the prosecution asks for information from the police, the police remain silent, the prosecution sends emergency services, the police remain silent, and so on until the case expires. That is not possible.
Speaking of the police, in Serbia it cannot happen that the DNA of murder suspects is destroyed, and that a person from the MUP helps in this. It could never happen in Serbia that the entire country sides with one criminal clan and arrests only members of the rival clan. In particular, it could not happen that powerful people, including lawyers, are killed, while they are under police measures. No way could a convicted criminal run his business, plan murders and edit the media from prison. Not even a high-ranking police officer could buy an apartment worth more than a million euros with a salary of less than 2000 euros. Those small things - to hide the cost of the cars that the MUP procured from a Party member - are not yet possible.
After all, in this country there is a Law on determining the origin of property and a special tax, and it would not be possible for anyone to get rich illegally. In particular, it would not be possible for the Tax Administration to boast that, in the three years this law was in force, it caught ONE person who could not explain the origin of his property. No, that doesn't happen in this country.
What about the Assembly? It is impossible for people who vote when they hear the bell to be corrupt? And really, it has never happened that the Assembly approves the borrowing of the country for fabulous sums that will then be used to build highways, the price of which is closer to a bridge built between two peaks of the Alps than a highway through the plain.
Our Assembly would never declare a private interest to be a public interest, namely the interest of "investors" who want to build solitary confinement buildings where they do not belong. The Assembly would not adopt special laws tailored to different companies or other countries, nor would it adopt anything harmful to the country or citizens. Namely, the parliamentary majority does not have its own will, so it has no responsibility for anything - how can we judge a dog because it has Pavlov's reflex when it hears a bell?
Are you asking me about state-owned companies?
Same thing. State companies and state institutions have never sent their employees to a meeting of the ruling party in the middle of working hours, nor have the same employees been transported by another company to that Mandatory Assembly. It has never happened that a state-owned company buys both media and influence and finances the work of other, competing media just because they are orthodox and worship the same Leader as the director of the company. The media have never received money from state-owned companies in order to demonize, dehumanize and mutilate anyone whom the Great Leader points a finger at. After all, how would they be able to do that without REM alive and well?
Therefore, it is in vain for you to try to prove that high corruption exists in Serbia. She is simply unimaginable.
And then the canopy of the newly renovated train station falls, killing 15 people. And the bubble burst and lies, theft, crime and corruption began to pour out of it. And people start to wonder - why? Why did she fall? Why are the president and prime minister and ministers lying that the canopy has not been reconstructed?
Because that answer will lead to the question of who and how was chosen as the contractor, for technical acceptance, for supervision... It will lead to the question of what 65 million euros were spent on when the entire station could have been demolished and rebuilt for that money, and like that two more times. It will lead to the question of how 15,5 million euros were spent on the railway station building itself, and the designers estimated it at just over three million.
And then the ball could continue to unravel, and the conclusion would be gruesome.
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