11.10.2011 by Lupo.

Investigating Serbia’s fraud of the century

11/10/2011

Seventeen suspects are detained in a fraud case of over 10m euros.

By Biljana Pekusic for Southeast European Times in Belgrade — 11/10/11

The Kolubara coal mine, 60km from Belgrade.[Reuters]

The public is still shaken a week after the arrests of 17 people, including two former directors of the state mine Kolubara. Former executives Dragan Tomic and Vladan Jovicic, eight executive managers and seven owners of private firms with which Kolubara conducted business were arrested on October 4th.

Justice Minister Snezana Malovic said the prosecution would not stop at this juncture and Serbia would never again be seen as a country in which corruption is acceptible or thieves protected.

“Pre-trial proceedings were initiated because of suspicion that Kolubara’s assets were used illegally through the leasing of construction machinery from privately owned companies, and by enabling other corporations and persons material gain,” organised crime prosecutor Miljko Radisavljevic told SETimes.

The executive managers are suspected of abusing their positions to illegally appropriate up to 2.9m euros, while enabling private companies to illegally profit 9.2m euros.

According to documents, the Kolubara executives rented construction machinery from private owners without issuing public procurement tenders.

The executives increased payments by exaggerating work-hours, such as for bulldozers which operated uninterrupted for 24 hours a day. The executives also paid two or three times for machinery doing one job, falsely presenting excavators as operating 30 days in a row and workers 90 hours without a break.

“Operating costs for leasing machinery increased in 2009 up to 80% or 40m euros,” current Kolubara director Nebojsa Ceran told SETimes.

Ceran assumed the position of director after the now arrested directors left in 2009.

Most of the arrested blame Tomic, saying he made the decision to rent the machinery and enter false data to pay for jobs that were never really done.

He spent millions of state funds at Kolubara, donating to churches, sports clubs, individuals and organisations, including the nationalist organisation “Dveri srpske” (Serbian doors).

The Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) of former Prime Minster Vojislav Kostunica placed Tomic at the helm of Kolubara during Kostunica’s premiership. DSS, now in the opposition, demands “to determine responsibly and impartially whether there were violations of the laws in that company, and who was responsible”.

“It is very dangerous if arrests are for a political showdown with opponents,” DSS spokesperson Petar Petkovic told SETimes.

Velimir Ilic, former infrastructure minister in the Kostunica government, explained that Kolubara’s high costs were never discussed at government meetings.

“It was a practice that lasted for years, not only during our government, but also before 2000,” Ilic told SETimes.

However, former Kolubara General Director Slobodan Djeric, who served under the late Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, was among the first to warn of theft in the company years ago.

“By some estimates, the state suffered damages in the amount of 550m euros by employing privately-owned machinery from 2004 to 2009, Djeric told SETimes.

Others implicated in the situation at Kolubara are businessmen Radoslav “Kene” Savatijevic and Vitomir Dimitrijevic.
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Serbia vows tough medicine against healthcare fraud

10/10/2011

The issue of corruption is moving to the top of the EU-related agenda. In this regard, healthcare holds a dubious distinction.

By Georgi Mitev Shantek for Southeast European Times in Belgrade — 10/10/11

One high-level corruption case involved the H1N1 flu vaccine.

The extent of corruption in Serbia’s state healthcare system is enormous, and Brussels is pressuring the country to reduce it. Authorities are making a concerted effort to demonstrate that they intend to deal with it.

Health Minister Zoran Stankovic acknowledges “reports of corruption … are more frequent than ever before, totalling 1,500 since January alone.” A group of policemen is being assigned solely to root out corruption in healthcare.

Routinely, members of the public pay several hundred euros of “incentive money” in order to have surgery scheduled in a state hospital or to give birth with epidural anaesthesia. But the stakes can be far higher.

One high profile case allegedly involves abuse in the procurement of vaccines for the H1N1 swine flu pandemic dating back to 2009.

International hysteria was exploited in the ordering of three million vaccines in a suspicious tender procedure, involving a procurement agent. Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline offered a direct sale to the government, but the government ignored the offer and purchased the vaccine from Novartis, paying a price 30% higher than in neighbouring Croatia.

Estimates of the amount the state budget was defrauded range between 1.25m to 10.5m euros.

Arrests include the former head of the Republic Institute for Health Insurance and the representative of the company through which the vaccines were imported, owned at the time by Serbian tycoon Milorad Miskovic. But then-Health Minister Tomica Milosavljević, who had to approve both the tender and the import of vaccines, has not been arrested.

“The fact that a high government official has been arrested, while the police merely had a friendly chat with the minister, indicates that there is no serious intention to put an end to corruption. This press conference by the current minister is merely a verbal declaration and an attempt to delude the EU,” Dr Drasko Karadjinovic, co-ordinator of the NGO Doctors Against Corruption, told SETimes.
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Setimes

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11.10.2011 by CrniLabudovi.

Mi6: British SAS Terror Operation: Balkan, Irak, Pakistan, Libyen
Leadership in Terror Operations and Terror: Mi6 - SAS worldwhite  Teacher for the Islam terrorist

21.4.2011: Die Ratten des Britischen Mi6 : unter welchem Namen die Gestalten operieren

Liste der Mi6 Agenten

‘Al Qaeda Bomber Worked For UK Intelligence’ —————————————————————————(News SKY) An al Qaeda “assassin” accused of bombing Christian churches anda luxury hotel in Pakistan was working for British intelligence at the sametime, according to leaked files.The claim about Adil Hadi al Jazairi Bin Hamlili is made in secret reportson detainees at the US military’s Guantanamo Bay prison camp obtained bythe whistleblowing website WikiLeaks(a) http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Wikieaks-Files-Al-Qaeda-Operative-Accused-Of-Bombings-In-Pakistan-Worked-For-British-Intelligence/Article/201104415979146?lid=ARTICLE_15979146_WikieaksFiles:AlQaedaOperativeAccusedOfBombingsInPakistanWorkedForBritis ( b) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13191959 British military investigator found hung in Basraby Julie HylandOctober 22, 2005World Socialist Web SiteEmail this article to a friendPrint this articleA senior British military police officer in Iraq, Captain Ken Masters, was found hung in his military accommodation in Basra on October 15.Masters was commander of the Royal Military Police’s Special Investigations Branch (SIB), charged with investigating allegations of mistreatment of Iraqi civilians by British soldiers. According to the Independent newspaper, in this capacity Masters “had examined almost every single serious allegation of abuse of Iraqi civilians by British troops,” including “the cases of the fusiliers convicted of abusing prisoners at Camp Breadbasket near Basra and a paratrooper who has been charged in connection with the death of Baha Mousa, a hotel receptionist.”In recent weeks, Masters was thought to have been involved in the investigation into the events of September 19, when Iraqi police arrested two British undercover Special Air Service (SAS) officers in Basra.http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=HYL20051022&articleId=1132 

SAS - Basra Rescue

On the 19th of September, 2005, 2 SAS soldiers were on a surveillance operation, in a unmarked car, close to Jamiyat Police station in Basra. The SAS had been tasked with investigating claims that the Iraqi Police had been torturing prisoners in the station. A particular senior Police officer was suspected and it was he who the 2-man SAS team were watching. (note: some sources indicate that the surveillance operation was actually carried out by members of the Special Reconnaissance Regiment(SRR))

Just before the team were about to end the surveillance mission, they were confronted by several plains-clothes Iraqi policemen. A gunfight ensued during which at least one Iraqi policeman was wounded.

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Two SAS soldiers were freed from a jail in Basra under the watch of British armoured vehicles last night a few hours after they were seized by Iraqis during the worst riots in Iraq’s second city in two years.

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 Troops free SAS men free from jail

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Just before the team were about to end the surveillance mission, they were confronted by several plains-clothes Iraqi policemen. A gunfight ensued during which at least one Iraqi policeman was wounded.The SAS men tried to reach an emergency rendezvous point (ERV) but were stopped by uniformed Police who were investigating the gunfire. The SAS chose to surrender at this point. They identified themselves as British military and they were taken into custody.

Photo released to the media showing the 2 captured British soldiers and their weapons.

Kein Interesse an Verhandlungen

USA und deren Verbündete in Europa lehnen Atomgespräche mit Iran ab.

Morden, foltern, vergewaltigen

Neue Berichte über Verbrechen der NATO-Hilfstruppen in Afghanistan.

Massaker über Massaker, durch die NATO Geheimdienste: Die NATO schweigt!

December 11, 2011

The Tripoli Massacres: The Yarmouk Mosque Dump

22 Black Men, Found Near the Yarmouk Base
December 11, 2011

<< The Tripoli Massacres
<< The Khamis Brigade Shed Massacre

Bodies Found on a Dirt Road
I was started on this by a not-so-new video which I haven’t seen yet. Peet73 tipped me off to this amateur, sideways-filmed video of several bodies found in late August in Tripoli/al-Furjan, apparently executed and scattered along a small stretch of road. At least many of them are not bound (now), but they were clearly taken there and killed. They appear to be exclusively black men.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBLGYUz6QiA
جثت أمام معسكر 32 خلة الفرجان 27-8-2011 [auto-translate: “Knelt in front of Camp 32 trait Furjan”]
Uploaded by 17022011libya on Aug 29, 2011
I’m pretty sure this is the one I downloaded, original sideways format, encoded UTC Aug 28 16:12:16. There are other versions that fix the rotation (like this). The light angle seems about right for thattime of day, so I’m considering this the time of filming. 4pm on August 28.

The Yarmouk base and its attached shed massacre was in a neighborhood called by some Khalet al-Ferjan (Furjan), among other names. It was in a farm compound just behind the Yarmouk military base, a headquarters of the 32nd battallion, Khamis Katiba (see here for precise location). As Peet73 confirms in a comment below, it’s all the same district, in which these and several others had been found not charred to the bone. Though they’ve been around for the same time, these victims don’t seem to be mentioned among the earlier reports from the base, bar one that I’ve run across, from CNN, August 29:

Rebels advancing on Tripoli discovered the bodies charred beyond recognition in a warehouse next to the military base. In addition, a resident who lives nearby told CNN that at least 22 bodies were found in a ditch near the base, but it was not clear whether those remains were connected to the killings at the warehouse.

CNN cannot independently verify the claims.

I saw twelve on first count, but now I see at least 13, probably 14, perhaps as many as 16 bodies are there, depending on what’s under certain things (a blanket, a plastic sheet, etc.). I trust the count of 22 in this “ditch” or dirt road, but the others must be off-frame somewhere,or perhaps already hauledoff for burial. I was helped by the camera pans from two different positions, which I compiled into two single panoramic images. One view is here split into two, and the other fits into one image, with an odd section - a head area - enhanced. No verdict what that shows. Another upsetting body,l eft of center, top image,seems to both naked and smaller than average, again dark skinned.

In at least a few cases, blood-soaked dirt around the heads indicate on-site execution of living captives, by gunshot. They aren’t bound, but might have been until just before killing. Only a close-up exam of their wrists could say.

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http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/

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11.10.2011 by HoisseBig.

Cohu, der Wächter über die Zustände im Kosovo

Mafia total

Tender mobil funk

Kanal: http://www.youtube.com/user/organizatacohu

Motor for the corruption: US groups - Allbright group with slovenian mobilel and Joschka Fischer, or Wesley Clark, and US Mafia Senator Eliot Engel

Gangster pure Steven Schook!

FBI - Interpol: over the world terrorism mafia group of US Senator Eliot Engel, with Salih Berisha, Bajraktari, Bytyci - Sahit Muja

15 years NATO Reports over the most criminal enterprise Albania: “Albanian politicians have signalled a rare willingness”

1.10.2011: Albania - Salih Berisha’ s partners: crimes, terrorist, top mafiosi

since 2003, all americans criminals in Albania: Immunität with a illegal Immunität contract, signed with the Albanian Mafia Boss: Fatos Nano.

Tuesday 11.10.2011 | 10:20
Marty: Without truth, no democracy in Kosovo
Source: Tanjug

BERNE — Dick Marty says that society in Kosovo cannot be democratic until competent bodies face the truth about crimes committed against non-Albanian population.
Dick Marty (Tanjug, file)
Dick Marty (Tanjug, file)

The Council of Europe (CoE) rapporteur and Swiss senator also said that iIndividuals responsible for the crimes must be prosecuted.

In late 2010, Marty submitted his report on organ trafficking in Kosovo and Albania in 1999 and 2000, accusing members of the ethnic Albanian KLA of perpetrating the atrocities, with Serbs and other non-Albanians their victims.

“There can be no justice without truth, nor can there be democracy without justice,” Marty said in an interview for Swissinfo, and added that this was a simple equation that should never be forgotten.

According to Marty, i”t is in the interest of Kosovo citizens for the truth to surface and for a transparent democratic system to be set up”.

He explained that in his report on trafficking of human organs, he simply voiced facts that were already common knowledge, although the Kosovo Albanian authorities tried to impose their version of the events.

“Kosovo wanted to impose their official truth, claiming that there are good guys and bad guys and that Western countries bombed the bad guys and supported the good ones,” Marty said and added that Slobodan Miloševi’s regime “id commit heinous crimes” but it would be”a tremendous lie if it were to be said that the other side is innocent”.

Marty noted that the police, intelligence services and international agencies filed a number of reports over the past years with regard to crimes committed on both sides and the connections between politics and organized crime in the region.

Marty said that his report recorded what was already well-known, and added that he had no personal interest in the issue, but suffered many unpleasant experiences as a consequence of his work.

“Still, the truth cannot always be pleasant,” Marty added.

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