Serbian Energy Minister Zorana Mihajlovic said Wednesday that she expects that a prosecutor’s office will soon determine whether the Electric Power Industry of Serbia (EPS) and citizens of Serbia incurred any damage from the public enterprise’s cooperation with the Energy Financing Team (EFT Group), an energy trading and investment group.
“I do not judge, it was my duty as a citizen to file criminal charges (against EFT management), which have never been forwarded to the Prosecutor’s Office in the right way,” Mihajlovic told reporters in Belgrade.
Whether the EPS incurred any damage in the period between 2000 and 2003, when there were power cuts and emergency imports of electricity, will be determined by the prosecutor’s office, the minister said, adding that all the relevant documents have been submitted and that the ministry expects to receive a full information about it.
“We need to see how business was conducted between the EPS and EFT and the Serbian citizens need to know about it,” said Mihajlovic.
Mihajlovic said that EFT has never been freed of any accusations.
The energy minister reiterated that she filed the criminal charges against EFT that had already been submitted to the district court and the prosecutor’s office and then sent back to the ministry by the prosecutor’s office in 2005 or 2006 for not containing enough data.
Izvor Tanjug
