The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg last year made a verdict that Slovenia is obliged to pay off the old foreign currency savings to Croatian and B&H depositors that they had in Ljubljanska Bank.
In accordance with the terms of the verdict, payments will start in December for the Croatian, but not for B&H depositors, due to the law passed by the Slovenian parliament. In order to pay old foreign currency savings to B&H citizens, Slovenia set up the signing of the memorandum, or more specifically transfer of database of depositors to the Council of Ministers as additional requirement.
“The situation of our depositors is very uncertain, which is not in accordance with the verdict of the European Court of Human Rights, since the verdict says that Slovenia and Serbia must, within one year, to take all measures to start the process of returning the money,” said Monika Mijic, legal representative of B&H before the Court in Strasbourg.
“This application is, in our opinion, one big fraud, because they are not requiring to submit a request for payment from our depositors but request for verification of claiming. This way, Slovenia is pushing our citizens in the legal uncertainty and most likely in administrative disputes, to prove their right at the courts in Slovenia, which they cannot prove, because administrative dispute is not an adequate remedy,” said Amila Omersoftic.
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe is in charge for the implementation of verdicts of the European Court of Human Rights. Regarding this, to B&H depositors remains to wait for the action of their country, which would be a kind of diplomatic pressure on this institution in order to make a decision in Slovenia conducted.
(Source: akta.ba)
