“What I have found out, and this will likely make the police very curious and hopefully move the matter forward, is that in Romania, you cannot open a bank account in any bank without being present in person. The person, probably an authentic fool, who had such an account and claimed that he had nothing to do with it, was lying. I hope that this person will be summoned to a hearing where he will give further explanations regarding the money swindles he engaged in in faraway Romania,” former Minister of Culture Vasko Simoniti explained to our media outlet.
On Saturday morning, two police officers visited the former Minister of Culture, Vasko Simoniti, and served him with a summons for a police interrogation over the removal of rapper and street thug Zlatan Čordić – Zlatko from the register of self-employed workers in culture. The freedom that Robert Golob promised and advertised before the elections turned out to be a farce. Today, we can see that he used his electoral victory to exact brutal revenge on his predecessors, who no longer allowed him to parasitise the electricity sector.
Golob has completely subjugated the police, who intimidate political opponents
In this, Golob has completely subjugated the police, which is also willing to intimidate his opponents when necessary, as it did in the case of former Culture Minister Vasko Simoniti. The latter was visited by the police on Saturday. For what reason? The street ruffian and bully who, among other things, physically assaulted the Nova24TV team and the former director of the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ), Milan Krek, who lost his privileged status as a self-employed cultural worker at the time Simoniti was the Minister. Namely, rapper Čordić was removed from the register in November 2020, when the coronavirus epidemic was raging, and the country was under strict measures in relation to it. Čordić violated these measures at the time and dangerously incited unification and protests.
Simoniti gave the following statement to Nova24TV:
“Following an event that took place more than three and a half years ago, the criminal police have summoned me as a suspect in a criminal offence to an interrogation in order to obtain additional explanations regarding the deprivation of the status and the rights arising from it of a self-employed cultural worker. What was the reason for the deprivation of the status by the Ministry of Culture was already said and written down at the time and many times afterwards. The status was soon restored after the verdict, but three and a half years later, the police would like to find out whether I, as Minister, acted unlawfully.
According to the logic of the court, you can harass and intimidate a man who was responsible for the health strategy of the entire country during the epidemic and publicly mock health measures (even on the national media outlet TV Slovenia, which, by the way, has a special role and tasks, especially in times of general health danger), but you cannot lose your status as a person with special privileges, which are granted to him by the very state that you are making fun of in a vulgar and primitive manner.
One might think that, after three and a half years, the police are now making fun of me, trying to humiliate me and, as a result, even prosecuting me on their own initiative, but I have given up that horrible thought. The police are only diligent and responsible and have only to find out if the Minister has exceeded his powers. That is always, again and again, the great unknown. To abuse the law and to abuse the rule of law? How can such a thing come into one’s head? It would be good to know, though, for example, if the Minister of Justice exceeded her powers when she bought a whole house for almost eight million euros …
And besides, I will not be able to explain or add anything specific at the hearing, but I will take the opportunity, as a vigilant and responsible citizen, to try to help the police in another case, which I am sure they have been looking into for at least as long, but which has not moved from a standstill. What I have found out, and this will likely make the police very curious and hopefully move the matter forward, is that in Romania, you cannot open a bank account in any bank without being present in person. The person, probably an authentic fool, who had such an account and claimed that he had nothing to do with it, was lying. I hope that this person will be summoned to a hearing where he will give further explanations regarding the money swindles he engaged in in faraway Romania …
Am I mixing apples and oranges? No!”
Domen Mezeg
