Two months after the Anti – Corruption Council forwarded the reports regarding ‘’Jugoremedija’’ and ‘’ Veterinary Institute’’ to the Government, at the session on 25 November the Government included our reports on its agenda, however, without reaching any conclusions. In the ‘’conclusion’’ regarding the privatization process of ‘’Jugoremedija’’, the Government ‘’ accepted information’’ that there were law violations, on account of which the Ministry of Economy on 13 May instructed the Share Fund to initiate a litigation for the cancellation of the contract on the sale of the shares and contract on investment concluded with ‘’Jaka 80’’, as well as that the Share Fund did everything according to the instruction, except to initiate a cancellation of the contract on the sale of the shares and the contract on investment made with ‘’Jaka 80’’. On what grounds?

Because the Share Fund does not have funds to initiate the litigation. In the meantime, criminal and offence charges are raised against five strikers, and the Ministry of Home Affairs forwards the report, a complete fabrication of date and description of events, to the Government. The Government ‘’concludes’’ that they will wait for the outcome of the litigation initiated by the small shareholders, and the charges for the cancellation of the contract on investment initiated by ‘’ Jaka 80’’, as if the state is not a contractual party which brought Nini as a co-owner to the small shareholders, as if it is not responsible because Nini is now initiating a cancellation of the contract. For the time being, the property of the small shareholders continues to go downhill, they are being dismissed on account of the strike, Director Mr. Radanovic has denied to act upon the decision of the Labor Inspectorate to return 102 strikers to work, and when seven of them returned, under a blackmail that they will strike no more, the illegal majority owner Nini relieved him of his office, and placed himself as Director. If the small shareholders bring charges against the state, because it is not acting according to regulations and thus puts at risk their property, where is Minister of Finance going to find the money for the indemnification?

Regarding the temporary measures in the Veterinary Institute, the Government ‘’concludes’’ that they are going to wait. For indeed, it would be to much to annul the law replacing it with violence like in ‘’ Knjaz’’, and ‘’ Institute’’ twice in one week. The Consortium of the employees of the Institute pressed charges against the decision of the Ministry of Economy with the Supreme Court( because the mentioned decision once again, despite the previous ruling of the Supreme Court in favor of the employees, confers the Institute to the non existing Consortium ‘’ Zekstra-Bankom’’).

The information Minister Bubalo made, and adopted by the Government on 25 November, mentioned no obligation of the Government to wait on the decision of the Supreme Court, which, once before, ruled that it is the Ministry of Economy, and not the employees, that obstruct the privatization. Instead, the Ministry recommends to impose a new management to the Institute which would certainly accept ‘’Zekstra’’ as a strategic partner in the production of the veterinary shots. Everything that was criticized in the work of the previous Government regarding the privatization of ‘’Jugoremedija’’, and ‘’ Veterinary Institute’, and upon which this Government insisted, was continued in the same and maybe more ruthless way. The parties which now form the present Government linked the conduct of the previous Government with corruption.

Ms Verica Barac,
President of the Council