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00:00:00arrested in connection with money laundering. About Alta Bank,
00:00:03we are discussing live with Professor of the Faculty of Economics
00:00:07Đorđe Đukić.
00:00:09Hearings continued in connection with the Senjak case and the arrest of
00:00:13the Head of the Criminal Police Directorate, Marko Kričak. Our guest today is journalist Miloš
00:00:17Želazić.
00:00:21The Head of the Service for Combating Organized Crime, Marko
00:00:24Zafirović, as well as the Deputy Head of the Criminal Police Administration,
00:00:28Nevenko Marić. They were invited for
00:00:32an informational interview at the police station in connection with the Senjak case.
00:00:35Marko Zafirović, according to a source from the Nova RS portal,
00:00:39received a summons for an informational interview on the order of the Special
00:00:43Department for Combating Corruption of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in
00:00:46Belgrade. On the other hand, also on the order of the Special Department for
00:00:50Combating Corruption, the Deputy Head of the Criminal Police Directorate,
00:00:53Nevenko Marić, was also summoned for an informational interview, reports
00:00:57RTS. Marić is the former head of the Novi Sad
00:01:00police, and let's remember, yesterday the head
00:01:04of the Criminal Police Administration, Marko Kričak, and the head of the
00:01:07Service for Combating Crime, Boško Sekulović, were arrested. Journalist of the weekly Radar,
00:01:10Vuk Cvijić, said in the Impression of the Week
00:01:13that the two of them filed a criminal complaint for the case
00:01:17of murder in restaurant 27 in Senjak and that they are now
00:01:21called to account.
00:01:23It seems to me that the prosecutor's office, which it is important to say, initiated
00:01:27Kričak's arrest, led the same
00:01:30procedure, but that is the prosecutor's office that
00:01:34for all these years, especially since Nejan Stefanović has been leading it,
00:01:37ignored many complaints from students,
00:01:41citizens about beatings by the very unit that
00:01:44led the beatings that were carried out by the unit
00:01:48led by Marko Kričak, which is
00:01:50the protection unit. There are recordings, there are testimonies,
00:01:54I even saw them personally beating some people
00:01:58in front of the Faculty of Law. How they arrest them, how they arrest
00:02:02students and professors. Then the police
00:02:05violated the autonomy of the university, which has not
00:02:08been done since the Nazis occupied
00:02:12Belgrade.
00:02:15We are in the midst of the arrest season, at least that's how the previous two
00:02:18days looked. About the background of the events that accompany the arrests themselves,
00:02:21I'm talking to
00:02:33we comment on the arrests, let's comment on the pardons.
00:02:36We found out who is on that list of pardoned people. The president
00:02:40did it on September 27th, if I'm not mistaken, and now
00:02:43the uh uh decisions of the higher court
00:02:47and other courts are coming. Now, what is interesting is that
00:02:51the former president
00:02:54said that there are no known names on that list.
00:02:57We immediately saw Dijana Hrkalović.
00:03:00Well, citizen Vučić, the former president, of course, in this case
00:03:04was not telling the truth, just as he did not tell the truth in many cases. He is the same man who said that
00:03:08the canopy was not reconstructed, that
00:03:10the gendarme Lazar Bačić had his eye
00:03:14injured by students. So, he is a man who is unscrupulous, who will
00:03:17use every opportunity, first to push himself in, to announce something,
00:03:21secondly, that he always looks for some
00:03:25control, please, writes on benefit for himself. Don't forget that he constantly says "blockaders came", not formally legally still in power in this
00:03:29country. The Serbian Progressive Party holds it, and this
00:03:32pardon of Dijana Hrkalović is a slap in the face to
00:03:36the state of Serbia, the people of Serbia, and the institutions of Serbia, because
00:03:39the woman was accused of influence peddling. That means she was
00:03:43the former state secretary, the former state secretary
00:03:46of the Ministry of Interior who came there to discipline. This is the beginning of
00:03:51out more at disciplining the police, which means all these loyalists who emerged, their vanguard was
00:03:54Dijana Hrkalović, who kicked open doors. That means
00:03:58she ruled the roost, appointed personnel in the Ministry of Interior and was involved
00:04:02in some serious criminal acts, which means where she influenced, and you
00:04:05pardon that person. That is a message to all
00:04:08thugs, to all pickpockets, to all
00:04:12hooligans, "feel free to beat, kill,
00:04:14steal, your leader is there to protect you." This
00:04:18has nothing to do with a legal state. Someone needs to check if
00:04:22this is according to the law, and if not, citizen Vučić should be held accountable.
00:04:26Yes, on that list of pardoned people, when we talk
00:04:29about... thugs, there is Marko Pavlović, who hit the student
00:04:33Sonja Ponjević, we know, during one of the student protests.
00:04:37And it's interesting about that case that the
00:04:41uh indictment was for attempted aggravated murder, and we
00:04:45actually haven't seen the epilogue yet. Well, those
00:04:48people simply cannot be prosecuted criminally.
00:04:52Yes, to remind the viewers, that's the case in Roosevelt
00:04:56Street when Sonja Ponović was standing on
00:04:59the sidewalk at that moment, not on the road. The man couldn't wait,
00:05:03he went on the sidewalk and hit that girl who suffered
00:05:06serious bodily injuries, I think it was a concussion. So you
00:05:10pardon such people. Before that, she pardoned
00:05:13four thugs who broke a girl's jaw in Novi Sad,
00:05:16a student. He pardoned them too. So, he is a man
00:05:19who supports complete lawlessness, no matter how much he refers to institutions,
00:05:23those institutions are good when they work for him, when they interrogate someone for a tweet
00:05:27for six months, when they arrest this unfortunate Novica Antić by
00:05:30habit, they arrest people. That is the higher public prosecutor's office in
00:05:34Belgrade. That Nenad Stefanović in an official statement
00:05:38regarding the latest arrest of Novica Antić wrote because of
00:05:41insinuation. Insinuation cannot exist in
00:05:44criminal law, disturbing the public to cause verbal delict,
00:05:48that's a step back, you didn't write that, we know what you
00:05:50meant. So, that's a terrible
00:05:54situation. Now, let's start, these were pardons and we will probably
00:05:58analyze who else is on that
00:06:01list. Uh, as I said in the announcement, the season
00:06:05of arrests, unfortunately, uh, we are witnessing all
00:06:09that after the elections, uh, the latest arrest
00:06:12is Davor Macura, the owner of Alta Bank. It is suspected that
00:06:16380 and more million euros were withdrawn from
00:06:18the bank.
00:06:21Uh, at the time the title was "Open Heart Operation of the Former
00:06:24Regime". How do you comment on
00:06:27these discoveries that accompany it? Well, nothing, David Matura, this Davor Macura,
00:06:31that's the classic criminal trick for escape.
00:06:35So, those old criminals, let's say from the time
00:06:38of Yugoslavia and the 90s, all had big gold chains.
00:06:43That was partly to show off, partly if the police started chasing them,
00:06:46they could run away and immediately melt that gold chain to get some
00:06:50cash, because escaping is a very expensive thing. These don't have this, since the whole
00:06:54regime is criminalized, the former regime, the outgoing regime, let me
00:06:57call it that, they don't have gold chains, but they have Davor Macura and Alta Bank.
00:07:01So, I find the amount of cash held by any bank unbelievable. I don't
00:07:05know if the German central bank has such an amount
00:07:09of cash in its vaults, because that is dead capital. Obviously, it was used for
00:07:13some other things. In addition, it's Alta Bank, to which a lot of business
00:07:16from some state went through Alta Bank, payment
00:07:20of electricity bills, yes, electricity, all of that, I mean payment
00:07:23cards, exchange offices, a lot of those things went through Alta Bank,
00:07:26and where is this governor, this
00:07:29Jorgovanka Jorgovan, really just a decorative flower, they did nothing. It's impossible that
00:07:33they didn't notice something was happening, and the question of criminal
00:07:37responsibility needs to be raised: who tolerated such behavior of Alta Bank? It's impossible. I was
00:07:41called once for 100 euros that was paid to me from abroad, and this
00:07:44man has 380 million euros in his safe.
00:07:48Every payment from abroad is subject to observation. 100 euros,
00:07:52yes. 380 million. What
00:07:55do you expect to happen next in that procedure? You say accountability must be
00:07:59established. Davor Macura is not alone in this. I'm not an economist
00:08:03and I won't go into that part, but that is, in my opinion, an
00:08:06organized criminal group that operated according to a pre-determined plan.
00:08:09That means you have, in my opinion, all the definitions of an
00:08:12organized criminal group: three or more persons over a longer period of time. It couldn't
00:08:16have happened in one day, it wasn't a sudden decision to grab everything you
00:08:20have in the safe overnight and run away. So someone planned that action. If this
00:08:23happens, we will take the money for escape. So,
00:08:27everyone should be held accountable as an organized criminal group. Membership in an
00:08:30organized criminal group is a criminal offense and the confiscation of property. There,
00:08:34whoever participates will have to answer,
00:08:37but until everything is changed, who will? The Ministry of Interior will not
00:08:41give people from the group, for example, the Ministry of Finance
00:08:44will not, the tax authorities will not, the National Bank, whether
00:08:48it will participate or not, what will they do, investigate themselves? So,
00:08:51we have, we need a serious reset. This is just the tip of the iceberg,
00:08:55I'm afraid. So that's just for a week. That's literally
00:08:58their escape money. How much they have
00:09:02taken, I'm afraid we'll only find out later, that these are huge figures,
00:09:06figures, staggering figures. Yes, uh, big, but it's good that it started.
00:09:10Yes, it's good that it started. I don't know... will be discovered, we'll see.
00:09:14There must be clear evidence for everything, right? Of course, these
00:09:17procedures are not that fast, perhaps the public
00:09:20would expect, because many people here, let's say, will be
00:09:23harmed, at least when it comes to Alta Bank, who are not guilty
00:09:27of anything at all. This forces them to use the services of that bank.
00:09:30Of course, of course, we'll see how that process unfolds, but the arrest of
00:09:34uh uh Head of the Criminal Police Directorate Marko Kričak,
00:09:38and Head of the Service for Combating Crime
00:09:41Boško Sekulović, attracted a lot of attention. "And now they are accused of causing damage, seriously
00:09:45violating the rights, I am reading this so I don't make a mistake, the rights of the assistant
00:09:48director of police Veselin Milić in the Senjak case. Let's
00:09:52explain briefly, first who are these two
00:09:56mentioned people and what exactly did they do in that
00:09:59Senjak case? Uh, these are people who allegedly,
00:10:03according to the prosecution, abused their position, and
00:10:07they extorted confessions from witnesses and
00:10:10suspects. Now actually in the case of the murder
00:10:14of Aleksandar Nešović Baja in restaurant 27 in
00:10:18Senjak. This I think this
00:10:21is one of those friendly arrests.
00:10:25This is done again by the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade, which packaged that same
00:10:29Milić based on the words it turns out of that
00:10:32same Kričak and and and whoever else, I won't go into it, but
00:10:36Kričak is important to me here, and now they are, I don't know, removing Kričak.
00:10:40For one thing, he was
00:10:43The order was issued by the special department for combating corruption.
00:10:46Kričak was arrested by his deputy, meaning
00:10:50his colleague from work arrested him. We don't have a video of Kričak with
00:10:54handcuffs. He wasn't arrested in his underwear at home, but
00:10:57escorted from the office. I'm afraid it's a friendly arrest, to get him
00:11:00out of the way. Because first, in my opinion, the internal
00:11:04control sector should handle it. If it's
00:11:07abuse, torture, extortion of evidence, that's a classic
00:11:10job for the internal control sector, where you have a loyalist at the helm, there's no
00:11:14chance of that. This way it's some kind of agreement, let's remove Kričak
00:11:18and have someone else arrest him, and they are now starting. So, he was arrested
00:11:22on November 1st, so this... "I heard
00:11:25that it was decided on October 30th that an urgent request
00:11:28was received. Before that, that case was
00:11:32dead in the drawer. They only had to follow the Nova
00:11:36portal's reporting, nothing more. We had statements on May 16th
00:11:40that those people were abused and tortured in the police. No matter who it is,
00:11:43a murderer, a murderer, Vesko Milić, Vesko Milić, no one has
00:11:47the right to extort evidence. So, on May
00:11:5116th, we had that first information that the
00:11:55prosecutor's office and the internal control sector should have checked
00:11:58ex officio. On July 30th, Veselin Milić's lawyer filed
00:12:02a criminal complaint against Marko Kričak. They remember
00:12:05Marko Kričak later, so that's August, September, October, three
00:12:08months later. Yes, supposedly from May they lost the elections
00:12:11and then Nenad Stefanović remembers, "Oh, there's Marko
00:12:15Kričak." I mean. He's not the only Kričak, and how will Marko
00:12:19Kričak be held accountable? We know that Kričak is also known for
00:12:23leading that unit
00:12:28which was particularly brutal during student protests, which in my opinion
00:12:32exceeded their authority. Their special duty is to protect individuals and facilities, not to
00:12:36go into the streets to beat people and arrest them. You have the case
00:12:39of Nikolina Sinđelić whom they abused in in in this
00:12:43what's it called, in the garage of the
00:12:45Serbian government building, the government building. We know that event. That was a group of people, among
00:12:49them one foreigner. They took their phones. Marko
00:12:52Kričak, I've been following him for some time now. He shouldn't have been in the police at all. First of all,
00:12:56he shouldn't have been in the police in the first place, and secondly, he should have been sanctioned a long time ago. Mhm.
00:13:00A long time ago. In late
00:13:042023, he recorded a false confession from that student whom he
00:13:07beat up, took to a dark place, beat him up, interrogated him outside police premises, which
00:13:11is not allowed by law. He recorded that false confession and
00:13:15handed it over to tabloids, claiming that, I don't know, Marinika and Đilas gave some money
00:13:19to that guy to do something, I don't know, to attack the then
00:13:22president of the Republican Electoral Commission. That gave him wings, and then he
00:13:26distinguished himself as a loyalist. I think this is purely a removal, just
00:13:30as Dijana Hrkalović, the aforementioned, pardoned Dijana, placed
00:13:34Darko Elez under surveillance so that no one else from the police could monitor a convicted criminal
00:13:37from Bosnia and Herzegovina who was operating here.
00:13:41She placed him under surveillance so that no other police officer could
00:13:44eavesdrop on him, mhm. So, these are their old tricks. Because that same
00:13:48Stefanović wanted to take the canopy case from this higher
00:13:51prosecutor's office in Novi Sad, the public prosecutor's office for organized crime, and then he
00:13:55wanted to raise some mutant indictment
00:13:58against three people, not a single politician, not a single
00:14:02official of the Serbian Progressive Party. So, I
00:14:05don't know if Nenad Stefanović enlightened himself.
00:14:08Everyone has the right to change their mind, but I don't believe that. Mhm. The most loyal
00:14:12arrested all over Serbia. Yes, former UKP inspector Milan
00:14:16Dumanović, speaking on N1, said that in the security
00:14:19services, in the prosecutor's offices, there is an uncontrolled collapse.
00:14:23Yes, exactly, is that what you think too? Yes, yes, yes, yes, look,
00:14:26in the police, in
00:14:29the prosecutor's offices, in the courts, I hope, that's
00:14:32my opinion, based on some contacts,
00:14:36there are still honest people who want to do their job or at least
00:14:39haven't exposed themselves, they've stepped aside. The problem is with
00:14:43the leadership, that these are hierarchically structured
00:14:47organizations in which politics, this
00:14:49ruling party, until recently
00:14:53the ruling party, exercised an unlawful influence
00:14:57in personnel matters. So, you have statements from that former president
00:15:00Vučić that he is satisfied with some changes in the Ministry of Interior, from the position of
00:15:04president, where, as the students say, "this is an incompetent person."
00:15:07So, he was appointing people in the Ministry of Interior, in the prosecutor's office,
00:15:11in the court. And now this
00:15:13top is in a panic, because some of
00:15:17them are facing prison. The middle
00:15:20echelon, let's say, they will see which
00:15:24kingdom they will serve. But you still have people who want to arrest, to
00:15:27prosecute, to judge, probably. So there is a panic now.
00:15:31Here is a statement from the students in the blocked faculty today
00:15:35which asks if this is a reckoning within the former
00:15:38regime or if institutions are finally doing their job. Institutions are doing their
00:15:42job. The conflict between Veselin Milić and Marko Kričak started
00:15:45even before uh restaurant
00:15:4827. It's a power struggle within the Ministry of Interior. In my opinion, there are no good
00:15:52guys there, they are all bad guys. Now, the fact that they have some unresolved
00:15:55issues, and now they are watching the photo finish and looking at
00:15:59each other, that's their business. I mean, the prosecutor's office itself should be doing
00:16:03its job, the more the better. Mhm. Now
00:16:06in the coming weeks and
00:16:09months, what can we expect when it comes to arrests? We cannot
00:16:12of course, uh, name people who will be arrested, no,
00:16:16but is there some domino effect there? What
00:16:19can be expected there? Well, I don't like
00:16:22to, uh, to predict anything, but in my
00:16:26opinion, the first and foremost thing would be to resolve the situation in the Ministry of Interior and
00:16:30the prosecutor's offices, because without that connection between the Ministry of Interior and the prosecutor's office,
00:16:34we will not have proper arrests or proper investigations. "We will
00:16:37perhaps have various tactics for
00:16:41raising pre-determined indictments that will be pre-determined
00:16:44to fail with loopholes. We will not have
00:16:47police officers who will arrest this... I mean, that's why I think that
00:16:51Kričak's agreement this... maybe
00:16:54I'm wrong, but let me not go into that. That means we first need
00:16:57to clean up the police, to remove all these loyalists, people who
00:17:01violated the law, people who are not competent, to clean them out of the police
00:17:04or to bring in some new people and to bring back some
00:17:08people who left or from the police. I think there is still a possibility
00:17:11to pick through and the same situation in the prosecutor's office. Some people
00:17:15need to be removed, some people need to be activated, but that's not simple, and to start, well, it's not
00:17:18simple to remove some people, those are processes. These people have been destroying
00:17:22the state for 12, 14 years. Yes, it's not easy. You have everyone,
00:17:26so I sometimes think the leader
00:17:29of a Ministry of Interior patrol has to be an SNS member,
00:17:32and the follower can be anyone. So they went to that level
00:17:36with every chief. "Every shift leader, every one
00:17:39had to be, to have some connection with the party, had to at one point
00:17:43violate the law, to protect the chairman, to send people to protect the chairman, to arrest
00:17:47people for tweets, to turn a blind eye to
00:17:50beatings, to financial malversations, to traffic
00:17:54violations. So, the same situation
00:17:57in the prosecutor's office, so exactly the same situation. So we will have
00:18:01a big problem to make
00:18:04So it will have to be pushed. This is now... "Push,
00:18:08the arrest season hasn't started yet, we hope
00:18:18Miloš Ž Lazić from Nova RS portal. Stay with
00:18:22Dan uživo, we will be back soon with you in the continuation, of course about Alta
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00:24:34is a problem because there is no money, is it possible to trace it, where
00:24:38did it come from, who is responsible for it being taken out of the vault,
00:24:42the Alta bank case will be analyzed by Professor
00:24:58beginning I have to ask you, this information from today, the arrest of Davor
00:25:01Macura, the founder, owner,
00:25:04director of Alta Bank. How does 380 million
00:25:08a bank's vault? One must
00:25:12get taken out of euros, as stated,
00:25:15go into the internal procedure, who gave the order to take it out, who could
00:25:18enter the vault? You know, it's known who the
00:25:22trusted persons are who strictly operate with
00:25:25the possibility of accessing the vault, and what is key,
00:25:28in my opinion, you know, uh, did anyone from the central bank sign
00:25:32an approval or, more precisely, consent for
00:25:36such a large amount of cash to be taken out of the
00:25:39country, either in whole or in part, because the regulations are very
00:25:43strict and they provide the possibility, please,
00:25:45to fully verify
00:25:48the origin of the money... and how it crosses the border
00:25:52in the part that the one who receives the money or who wants
00:25:56to, you know, that cash that you are talking about, to receive it, must
00:25:59clearly state on what basis it was deposited
00:26:02in that, as it is called, correspondent bank. Therefore, can that money be
00:26:06returned, if it hasn't already dispersed from
00:26:09the correspondent bank's account? You mentioned,
00:26:13you heard, Stopanska bank in Bitola, which he practically
00:26:17bought as the owner, so it was in Skopje before that. So it is possible
00:26:20through inter-state cooperation, cooperation of central banks and cooperation
00:26:24of commissions for preventing money laundering and
00:26:27practically services that deal with it, you know, to completely trace
00:26:31that. What I am... the only thing I am skeptical about, based on what
00:26:34I know, is, you know, how to enter if cryptocurrency was used
00:26:38in the meantime to quickly transfer it and very
00:26:41quickly pass through who knows how many channels, which means I absolutely
00:26:45have no answer for that because I am incompetent for that part, because it is used
00:26:48as a tool everywhere, you know, in the world, that it is difficult to trace
00:26:52that much, we know that as uh as
00:26:55laymen, but here uh who, you mentioned
00:26:58responsibility, who could have known or should have known about
00:27:03that money flowing out of the bank somewhere, that's where you actually get to
00:27:07the essence. The Law on the National Bank of Serbia and the Law on
00:27:10Banking very precisely define
00:27:13the procedure within the bank. First, who is responsible among the members and
00:27:17the president of the executive board, the president of the supervisory board, in this case,
00:27:20you know, that is the arrested Mr. Macura. Then, two people independent of
00:27:24the bank sit on the supervisory board in every, you know, bank, who must not
00:27:28be shareholders or own any ownership stakes because they are
00:27:32the ones who should, please, ensure whether the bank operates in
00:27:36accordance with prescribed procedures or if something different
00:27:39is being done. What was immediately indicative to me, you see, and what
00:27:42the National Bank should have done, was to carry out a preventive
00:27:46control without, please, any public announcement.
00:27:49The first indicator was the enormous amount of cash, you know, which, according to
00:27:53what was published now at the end of the second quarter, was 38.8% in
00:27:57assets. For comparison, please, that is cash, right? The bank
00:28:01had cash. Usually high, but unusually high, so that your
00:28:05viewers would understand, I looked at the data correctly for accuracy, the five largest banks
00:28:08in Serbia had a share of cash from 16.4%, please, up to a maximum of
00:28:1221.6%. So the first indicator is why do you
00:28:16keep such a large amount of cash in the bank which practically brings
00:28:20no profit, right? Secondly, that cash is usually
00:28:24placed in loans in banks, right? A bank is not for holding
00:28:28such a large amount of cash, or it is held, you know, for some so-called
00:28:31liquidity. That the bank, first of all, covers from its own sources what needs to be
00:28:35paid, whether if some citizens want to withdraw, please, their
00:28:39deposit or a company needs to make a payment. So that is the first
00:28:42indicator. The second indicator, when you look at it, is
00:28:46the expansion of that Alta group. Why am I telling you this?
00:28:49The bank is tiny. Its share in the banking industry of Serbia
00:28:53is, for your viewers, I have to be a bit technical but to simplify, under
00:28:56three%. So much, you know, expansion,
00:28:59buying banks from abroad, buying insurance from abroad. Then
00:29:03you know planning the construction of magnificent
00:29:06buildings, buying land from
00:29:09the bankruptcy of those four failed banks, which unfortunately completely
00:29:12destroyed, with which the Serbian banking sector was completely destroyed,
00:29:16if that preventive control had been done without public insight,
00:29:20what the National Bank, in the case of the governor, could, you know, on
00:29:23the basis of what his subordinate vice-governor for
00:29:27the website, who is that person who is responsible for control, to deliver
00:29:31to issue a so-called... boarding letter that all
00:29:34measures that the governor gives should be acted upon. We don't know that,
00:29:38or rather, it obviously wasn't done. I cannot claim
00:29:41100%, that we cannot know exactly what happened inside, right?
00:29:44But if it was done, excuse me, then why would the vice-governors need
00:29:48to speak to the public now and ask the prosecutor's office to enter
00:29:52the bank to establish whether the reports that the bank
00:29:55presented were objective? Who does that? An external auditor
00:29:59paid by the bank, and the National Bank of Serbia. Again, so that your
00:30:03viewers understand what kind of responsibility it is based on
00:30:06authorization, it can say this audit report is not valid, we
00:30:09demand a subsequent audit of the bank and we appoint an auditor or an audit
00:30:13firm to do it. Nothing, as you can see, came of it.
00:30:17The outcome was, what I must say, you know,
00:30:21again for your viewers, sounds cynical, why? Those
00:30:24responsible within the central bank simply pass
00:30:28the responsibility from one to another. Then comes the night
00:30:31session where...
00:30:34That's right, that's right, there is a night session, what is also,
00:30:37please, key, we don't have information in public, who gave the order and
00:30:41signed that that bank can and how much can it take out, please,
00:30:45outside the borders, the borders of Serbia. In that sense,
00:30:48you see, one thing absolutely needs to be clarified,
00:30:52that Serbia should no longer fall into this trap which means that
00:30:56simply one party has absolute dominance through institutional services.
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