EurActiv: Unveiled: Energy Corruption in the Balkans

From Croatia to Montenegro, shady energy deals plague the region’s economy, according to a report to be published today (24 June) during the European Commission's Sustainable Energy Week.

The report, led by Marko Prelec from the Balkans Policy Research Group, draws attention to the massive corruption hitting the energy sector in Southeastern Europe.

Titled “Who benefits from high level corruption in the South East Europe energy sector?”, the report lists “only some” of the corruption scandals that hit Southeastern Europe over the past years.

Among them, the Serbian “Kolubara” mining scandal, the Croatian INA-MOL affair which brought the former Prime Minister, Ivo Sanader, behind bars for taking €10 million in bribes, the Macedonian electricity trading cartel case, in which four firms allegedly dictated the price for electricity imports in a tender in 2012, or the Montenegrin USAID scandal, where US money donated to the government was allegedly diverted by shady businessmen.
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