The Movement for Changes (PzP), an opposition party in the Montenegrin parliament, on Tuesday pressed criminal charges at the State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica against former Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic and incumbent Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi, accusing them of malfeasance in the privatisation of Montenegro's energy sector.
Party leader Nebojsa Medojevic said the charges were prompted by the "criminal" agreement between the Montenegrin government and Italian companies on the recapitalisation and partial privatisation of Montenegro's power provider Elektroprivreda.
The PzP accuses Djukanovic and Berlusconi of abuse of office that enabled Italian companies A2A an Terna to make money at the expense of Montenegro's power sector. A2A has a 43.7 per cent stake in Elektroprivreda.
Montenegrin Deputy PM Vujica Lazovic, former Montenegrin ministers Branko Vujovic and Branimir Gvozdenovic and five other people are also named as suspects in the criminal charges.
Medojevic said the State Prosecutor's Office was the last body to which the PzP could refer for exposing the harmful agreement and that if there was no response, the party was willing to call on citizens to take to the streets "against the colonisation of Montenegro."
