SBB: No reply from Serbian PM about non-transparent Posta NET deal

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The SBB company said on Wednesday that it had not received a response to its letter to Prime Minister Ana Brnabic 10 days ago, asking the government to explain why a tender was not called for the sale of the JP Posta public property.

It added that the cost of the transfer of property between two state-owned companies was being kept hidden from the Serbian public.

“Even though we told the prime minister that the decision by the JP Posta to hand over infrastructure and the Posta NET operator to Telekom Serbia in a completely non-transparent way was illegal, the prime minister decided to keep quiet and become an active accomplice of JP Posta and Telekom Serbia in this illegal activity,” the SBB statement said.

“We clearly told Prime Minister Brnabic that a tender for the sale of Posta NET would allow all interested parties to compete and bring a good price for the state but she obviously does not think she is obliged to protect public property and respect the laws of the Republic of Serbia just as she does not think it is her duty to inform the citizens of Serbia how much money was lost in that non-transparent transaction,” SBB said.

It added that Brnabic does not think it is important or even polite to reply to a letter from one of the biggest investors in Serbia, the SBB company which operates as part of United Group as does N1 TV.

“Instead of having Brnabic answer our legitimate question about why the Posta NET operator was handed over to Telekom and at what price and without allowing all interested parties to take part in a tender, we have been the target of many insults by the CEOs of those two companies who signed the dubious and secretive contract,” SBB said.

The statement recalled that Telekom Serbia CEO Vladimir Lucic and acting JP Posta CEO Zoran Djordjevic replied to SBB even though they were not asked anything. “But in their familiar manner by voicing lies about our company, hiding all the details of the handover of public property and did not explain the extent of the damage they inflicted on the state and its citizens,” it said.

N1 reported earlier that SBB sent the letter to Prime Minister Ana Brnabic.