Revealing of names of civil servants who sued the state for the damage caused to them by the illegal work of public officials is a sort of scandal, a brutal violation of fundamental human rights by the executive power and direct incitement to illegal work.
By accusing civil servants who seek protection of their rights in court for undermining the financial system of the state and by publicly revealing their names, the executive power stigmatizes these civil servants and makes a sort of “hit list” of those unsuitable for the state administration. By revealing the names of civil servants and by stating that they are working against the Government and thus undermining the financial system of the state, the Government has directly invited leaders of the state administration to deal with such officers.
We believe that the ones who claims that the state and its financial system are being undermined by seeking protection of violated rights on court, and not by violation of laws and rights by responsible persons, are either a total legal ignorant or the main organizer and instigators of Illegal work.
Moreover, by revealing the names of civil servants, fundamental human rights are violated massively because the Government is directly putting pressure on the civil servants to drop the charges for protection of their rights. Thus, the fundamental human right – the right to access the court, is limited by the executive authorities to all civil servants who have filed the lawsuit against the state as well as to those who could do so in the future.
On the other hand, the executive power, which has been for years under more than serious suspicion of corruption that truly undermines the financial system of the state, continues to work in secrecy, which is the most appropriate environment for actors of corruption at the highest level. Thus, the Prime Minister, who sees state enemies in civil servants only because they seeks protection of their rights in court, has made an effort to declare all materials from the Government sessions secret.
It is in public’s greater interest to know in what way the Government and its Prime Minister make decisions, who are legal entities that owe the state hundreds of millions of Euros in tax and contributions and what is the link between them and the Prime Minister and executive authorities, who are the tax inspectors who, by not performing their official duties, have enabled the tax debt to be in such a large amount and for the most of it to be uncollectable. The Prime Minister and the Government have made sure that the data is illegally classified as secret because its disclosure would certainly show the public how the executive power actually undermines the financial system of the state and how many decisions of the executive power have been made in the state’s interest, and how many in the private interest of certain persons.
The state has suffered damage in the amount of hundreds of millions of Euros based on unpaid tax debts, but data on persons who owe this amount and persons who allowed them not to pay taxes are hidden from the public by the Government and the Prime Minister. In this way, the executive power reinforces the suspicion that it is the crucial center of corruption.
Also, the Prime Minister and the Government were obliged to publish the names of the officials who violated the rights of civil servants by their illegal work and caused them damage. By hiding their names and revealing the names of civil servants seeking protection of their rights in court, the Government and its Prime Minister openly show that they are behind the illegal work and precisely the ones causing damage to the state.
NGO MANS legal representative
Veselin Radulović, lawyer from Podgorica
