Fight against corruption is fight for solid economy

BELGRADE - Leader of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) Aleksandar Vucic has said that the fight against corruption and crime is, in fact, a fight for recovery of the Serbian economy.

In a live broadcast on Radio-Television of Serbia on Tuesday evening, Vucic explained that the fight against corruption and crime had not been launched just in order to shed light on 24 contentious cases, as required by the EU, but because the authorities have to unmask and disband the parasitic system based on the criminal triangle of the state, politics and tycoons.

Tycoons' machinations in four banks have so far caused a loss of EUR 210 million to Serbia, he said, noting that the total damage will reach nearly EUR 1 billion.

Tycoons collaborate with politicians directly, take out loans from banks that they will never pay out, and they succeed in getting them without any guarantees whatsoever, the SNS leader said.

We have to bring that system down, and the dismantling of that parasitic system is a pre-requisite for economic recovery, Vucic stressed.

Underlining that the European Commission and Transparency International noted the initial results in the fight against corruption, Vucic said that he would embark on the fight for a different and better economy, a better living standard, with the same vigor as he had done concerning the fight against corruption and crime.

Photo Tanjug, N. Milosevic (Archive)