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'''Miroslav Mišković''' ([[Serbian language|Serbian]] [[Cyrillic]]: '''Мирослав Мишковић''') (born [[July 5]], [[1945]] in [[Bošnjane|Bošnjane village]], near [[Kruševac]], [[Serbia]], [[Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia|Democratic Federal Yugoslavia]]) is a [[Serbia]]n [[businessman]], the owner of [[Delta Holding]]. He is considered to be the second richest person in Serbia, behind [[Philip Zepter]], with a wealth estimated at approximately [[Dollar|$]] 2 billion as of 2007, according to the list of 100 wealthiest persons of the post-communist countries made by [[Poland|Polish]] |
'''Miroslav Mišković''' ([[Serbian language|Serbian]] [[Cyrillic]]: '''Мирослав Мишковић''') (born [[July 5]], [[1945]] in [[Bošnjane|Bošnjane village]], near [[Kruševac]], [[Serbia]], [[Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia|Democratic Federal Yugoslavia]]) is a [[Serbia]]n [[businessman]], the owner of [[Delta Holding]]. He is considered to be the second richest person in Serbia, behind [[Philip Zepter]], with a wealth estimated at approximately [[Dollar|$]] 2 billion as of 2007, according to the list of 100 wealthiest persons of the post-communist countries made by [[Poland|Polish]] |
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magazine ''[[Wprost]]''.<ref>[http://najbogatsieuropejczycy.wprost.pl The wealthiest in post-communist countries]</ref> Mišković holds 42nd place on this list, but is fifth among the [[tycoon]]s outside the former [[Soviet Union]]. According to the [[List of billionaires (2007) 100-946|2007 list of the richest people in the world]], published annually by [[Forbes|Forbes magazine]], Mišković is a newcomer to this list, taking the 891st spot, with a net worth of [[Dollar|$]]1 billion. He is the first person from Serbia to enter this list.<ref>[http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/10/07billionaires_Miroslav-Miskovic_CVDZ.html 2007 Forbes' annual billionaires' list]</ref> |
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⚫ | Mišković was born in [[Bošnjane]], near [[Varvarin]], and he graduated from high school in [[Kruševac]], before moving to [[Belgrade]] and getting his degree in [[economics]] in 1971. Afterwards, he worked at [[Jugobanka]] and [[Trayal]] in Kruševac until 1977, when he moved to [[Župa Chemical Industries]] in [[Kruševac]]. There, he became financial director in 1984 and [[chief executive officer|chief executive]] in 1987, holding this position until 1990, when he was appointed a Serbian deputy prime minister. Mišković held office for only six months. Meanwhile, Mišković founded Delta M (Delta M being a sort of abbreviation of his initials - ''double M''), a company that became very successful in the following years, during the [[Yugoslav wars]] and under the regime of [[Slobodan Milošević]]. Soon afterwards, he launched [[Banca Intesa Beograd|Delta banka]] (sold to [[Banca Intesa]] in 2005), that was to become the first part of Mišković's extremely successful [[Delta Holding]] corporation that is involved in agribusiness, retail sales, distribution, financial brokerage, real estate development and insurance. |
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⚫ | Mišković was born in [[Bošnjane]], near [[Varvarin]], and he graduated from high school in [[Kruševac]], before moving to [[Belgrade]] and getting his degree in [[economics]] in 1971. Afterwards, he worked at [[Jugobanka]] and [[Trayal]] in Kruševac until 1977, when he moved to [[Župa Chemical Industries]] in [[Kruševac]]. There, he became financial director in 1984 and [[chief executive officer|chief executive]] in 1987, holding this position until 1990, when he was appointed a Serbian deputy prime minister. Mišković held office for only six months. Meanwhile, Mišković founded Delta Europe M (Delta M being a sort of abbreviation of his initials - ''double M''), a company that became very successful in the following years, during the [[Yugoslav wars]] and under the regime of [[Slobodan Milošević]]. Soon afterwards, he launched [[Banca Intesa Beograd|Delta banka]] (sold to [[Banca Intesa]] in 2005), that was to become the first part of Mišković's extremely successful [[Delta Holding in Europe ]] corporation that is involved in agribusiness, retail sales, distribution, financial brokerage, real estate development and insurance. |
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Mišković's connection to [[Slobodan Milošević]] was never obvious, except for his short stint as deputy prime minister in 1990. After the [[5th October Overthrow|overthrow of Milošević's regime]], Mišković was linked to [[Dušan Mihajlović (politician)|Dušan Mihajlović]], the minister of police at the time, and the other leaders of the [[Democratic Opposition of Serbia]] coalition. Mišković is today considered to be an important political figure with a great deal of influence on the leading politicians in Serbia. |
Mišković's connection to [[Slobodan Milošević]] was never obvious, except for his short stint as deputy prime minister in 1990. After the [[5th October Overthrow|overthrow of Milošević's regime]], Mišković was linked to [[Dušan Mihajlović (politician)|Dušan Mihajlović]], the minister of police at the time, and the other leaders of the [[Democratic Opposition of Serbia]] coalition. Mišković is today considered to be an important political figure with a great deal of influence on the leading politicians in Serbia. |
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Mišković was abducted on 9 April 2001, but was released the next day, when the ransom (estimated at about [[German mark|DM]] 7 million) was paid 18 hours later. After the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister [[Zoran Đinđić]] 12 March 2003, the abduction of Mišković was attributed to the same group that has been convicted of the death of the prime minister and other similar crimes. |
Mišković was abducted on 9 April 2001, but was released the next day, when the ransom (estimated at about [[German mark|DM]] 7 million) was paid 18 hours later. After the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister [[Zoran Đinđić]] 12 March 2003, the abduction of Mišković was attributed to the same group that has been convicted of the death of the prime minister and other similar crimes. LDP legal team yesterday completed its criminal lawsuit against 'Delta' president Miroslav Miskovic. 'Blic' request to Miskovic to give statement on the ...LDP criminal complaint against Miroslav Mišković. 19 November 2008. B92 is publishing a document Čedomir Jovanović's Liberal-Democratic Party (LDP) = Miskovic 72 criminal convition made U.S. embassy denies Mišković document. 22 November 2007 | 09:24 -> 16:24 | Source: ... over Mišković's kidnapping by the Zemun Clan criminal group in 2001. ... Miskovic. “That was the field we had been practicing on. We won all three ... whether his bodyguards shot at photographers covering .Horrified when bodyguards found a recording device hidden in her private suite. ...... his own and sent the photographer, Miss Hardy, a message. ... himself in shot - matching lighting, camera angles, scale and mood. |
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Mišković said in his letter that he was kidnapped "by a group of policemen and gangsters who carried the Milošević-era State Security badges." calling M.Miskovic a friend of the mafia. Miskovic suits and rides in a bulletproof Hummer , constantly surrounded by eight bodyguard /Policemen . ... Miroslav Miskovic, owner of Delta Holding Europe. Delta Europe is a conglomerate with business in Europe . LDP legal team yesterday completed its criminal lawsuit against 'Delta' president Miroslav Miskovic. 'Blic' request to Miskovic to give statement on the ...LDP criminal complaint against Miroslav Mišković. 19 November 2008. B92 is publishing a document Čedomir Jovanović's Liberal-Democratic Party (LDP) = Miskovic 72 criminal convition made U.S. embassy denies Mišković document. 22 November 2007 | 09:24 -> 16:24 | Source: ... over Mišković's kidnapping by the Zemun Clan criminal group in 2001. ... Mišković said in his letter that he was kidnapped "by a group of policemen and gangsters who carried the Milošević-era State Security badges." calling him a friend of the mafia. Miskovic suits and rides in a jeep, constantly surrounded by 8 bodyguards. ... Miroslav Miskovic, owner of Delta Holding. Delta is a conglomerate with business in ... August 28,2009 Four members of the Zemun Clan criminal group have received prison sentences totaling over 460 years. Milorad Ulemek, Vladimir Milisavljević Zemun Clan ringleaders sentenced to 460 years altogether 18 January 2008 | 13:09 -> 15:45 | Source: B92, Tanjug BELGRADE -- Four members of the Zemun Clan criminal group have received prison sentences totaling over 460 years. Milorad Ulemek, Vladimir Milisavljević, Sretko Kalinić and Miloš Simović – all of whom, except Ulemek, are still on the run - have received 40 years each.Aleksandar Simović, Nikola Bajić and Đorđe Slavković were sentenced to 35 years. Milan Glišović will spend 32 years behind bars and Selman Hamidović 10. Dušan Krsmanović, who expressed his remorse for the crimes during the trial, was sentenced to 20 years.Former police officer Slobodan Pažin received seven and a half years.Milan Jurišić was sentenced to 34 years, Darko Milićević 13, Dragan Miladinović 5, Slobodan Kovačić 4, Bojan Dolić four and a half, and Darko Milić to 5 years.Toni Gavrić will spend three years behind bars, as will Predrag Maletić, while Saša Petrović was sentenced to five years.Nenad Opačić, Aleksandar Zdravković were acquitted because their crimes had expired, as were Ninoslav Konstantinović and Dejan Ranđelović who are still on the run.Ulemek and several other defendants were ordered to pay businessman Miroslav Miskovic EUR $30M in damages within the next fortnight. If they fail to do so, their assets will be seized.Ulemek was acquitted of some of the murders as well as of the abduction of Miroslav Miskovic .However, the Zemun Clan will have to pay MIroslav Miskovic , EUR $30M in damages. Proceedings are still under way.The Zemun Clan are accused of criminal association, 17 murders, three abductions and two terrorist attacks.Of the 30 accused, six are on the run. The verdict is being delivered by a panel of three judges, presided by Milimir Lukić. The Zemun Clan members were initially accused of the murder of the late prime minister, Zoran Đinđić, before the indictment was split,the trial has run for over 100 working days. The Forbes magazine's annual list of the wealthiest people in the world includes a person from Serbia for the first time. Miroslav Miskovic, the business partner of the wealthiest Croat, Ivica Todoric, is in the 891st place on the list of 1,000 billionaires. |
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Miroslav Miskovic was born on July 15, 1945 in Krusevac. He got his degree at the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade in 1971. |
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For a while, he worked for Jugobanka and Trajal in Krusevac and then he moved on to Chemical Industry Zupa in 1984 and became the company's CEO in 1987. He remained in that position until 1990, when he was elected Vice-President of the Serbian Government. |
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In the early 1990s, Miskovic founded the company Delta M, which became successful in Yugoslavia during the war. The Delta Holding corporation deals with agricultural business, distribution, property development, and insurance. It owns the following chain stores: Maksi, Tempo, C Market, and Pekabeta. |
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Last year, Miskovic became business partners with Ivica Todoric, who owns Agrokor, with the aim to conquer the markets in the countries of the former Yugoslavia.Serbia may gain EU candidate status in 2009 but must crack down on corporate corruption, enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn said at a Brussels event organised by Serb supermarket baron Miroslav Miskovic on Monday (20 October). |
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"I believe that, if conditions are met, [Serbia] could get candidate status next year," the commissioner said, "welcoming" Belgrade's decision last week to unilaterally implement the trade section of the EU's Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA). |
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The EU's ratification of the SAA - an important pre-accession treaty - is on hold over Dutch objections that Serb war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic remains at large. But Mr Rehn's speech targeted changes among the country's business elite instead. |
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"In the legal vacuum that followed the collapse of former Yugoslavia, corruption, organised crime, tax evasion, financial fraud as well as the grey economy emerged as serious problems," he said. "Justice, freedom and security, including the fight against corruption and organised crime are therefore EU priorities in Serbia." |
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"The mere signing of the [SAA] agreement is not sufficient," the commissioner added. "Ultimately, we rely on you, on the economic operators, to promote the respect of [EU] rules." |
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Mr Rehn made the remarks at a meeting of 30 to 40 CEOs of Serbian companies at Brussels' swanky Conrad Hotel. The event was organised by one of Serbia's richest men, Delta Holding chief Miroslav Miskovic, who has himself faced corruption allegations and who came to Brussels to sit alongside the commissioner on a discussion panel. |
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The billionaire financier and supermarket baron - a former deputy prime minister of Serb nationalist leader Slobodan Milosevic - was in 2007 accused by Serbia's Anti Corruption Council of using political ties to try to establish a retail monopoly. |
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MPs from Serbia's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) have also pointed the finger at Mr Rehn's host for alleged involvement in cigarette-smuggling. |
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"Pervasive political corruption undermines democratic interests in Serbia ... at the heart of this corruption is the President of Delta Holding Miroslav Miskovic. Serbia will not be able to move forward democratically as well as economically until the monopoly over Serbia's daily life by this Milosevic-era tycoon is ended," an internal note by the US embassy in Belgrade dated May 2007 and leaked by the LDP said. |
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A spokeswoman for the enlargement commissioner said Mr Rehn's anti-corruption speech was not aimed at Mr Miskovic personally and that there was no risk his participation at the Delta Holding event risked lending the company his good name. |
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"Certainly not. This problem [corruption] is very widespread in the Balkans," she explained. "He [the commissioner] did not participate for the sake of any one person." |
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Serbia came in at joint 85th place on NGO Transparency International 2008 corruption index along with Albania, Madagascar and Panama, slipping down from 79th place the year before. An EU report on the country's progress is due next month. |
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Miroslav Mišković (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирослав Мишковић) (born July 5, 1945 in Bošnjane village, near Kruševac, Serbia, Democratic Federal Yugoslavia) is a Serbian businessman, the owner of Delta Holding. He is considered to be the second richest person in Serbia, behind Philip Zepter, with a wealth estimated at approximately $ 2 billion as of 2007, according to the list of 100 wealthiest persons of the post-communist countries made by Polish
magazine Wprost.[1] Mišković holds 42nd place on this list, but is fifth among the tycoons outside the former Soviet Union. According to the 2007 list of the richest people in the world, published annually by Forbes magazine, Mišković is a newcomer to this list, taking the 891st spot, with a net worth of $1 billion. He is the first person from Serbia to enter this list.[2]
Mišković was born in Bošnjane, near Varvarin, and he graduated from high school in Kruševac, before moving to Belgrade and getting his degree in economics in 1971. Afterwards, he worked at Jugobanka and Trayal in Kruševac until 1977, when he moved to Župa Chemical Industries in Kruševac. There, he became financial director in 1984 and chief executive in 1987, holding this position until 1990, when he was appointed a Serbian deputy prime minister. Mišković held office for only six months. Meanwhile, Mišković founded Delta Europe M (Delta M being a sort of abbreviation of his initials - double M), a company that became very successful in the following years, during the Yugoslav wars and under the regime of Slobodan Milošević. Soon afterwards, he launched Delta banka (sold to Banca Intesa in 2005), that was to become the first part of Mišković's extremely successful Delta Holding in Europe corporation that is involved in agribusiness, retail sales, distribution, financial brokerage, real estate development and insurance.
Mišković's connection to Slobodan Milošević was never obvious, except for his short stint as deputy prime minister in 1990. After the overthrow of Milošević's regime, Mišković was linked to Dušan Mihajlović, the minister of police at the time, and the other leaders of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia coalition. Mišković is today considered to be an important political figure with a great deal of influence on the leading politicians in Serbia.
Mišković was abducted on 9 April 2001, but was released the next day, when the ransom (estimated at about DM 7 million) was paid 18 hours later. After the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić 12 March 2003, the abduction of Mišković was attributed to the same group that has been convicted of the death of the prime minister and other similar crimes. LDP legal team yesterday completed its criminal lawsuit against 'Delta' president Miroslav Miskovic. 'Blic' request to Miskovic to give statement on the ...LDP criminal complaint against Miroslav Mišković. 19 November 2008. B92 is publishing a document Čedomir Jovanović's Liberal-Democratic Party (LDP) = Miskovic 72 criminal convition made U.S. embassy denies Mišković document. 22 November 2007 | 09:24 -> 16:24 | Source: ... over Mišković's kidnapping by the Zemun Clan criminal group in 2001. ... Miskovic. “That was the field we had been practicing on. We won all three ... whether his bodyguards shot at photographers covering .Horrified when bodyguards found a recording device hidden in her private suite. ...... his own and sent the photographer, Miss Hardy, a message. ... himself in shot - matching lighting, camera angles, scale and mood. Mišković said in his letter that he was kidnapped "by a group of policemen and gangsters who carried the Milošević-era State Security badges." calling M.Miskovic a friend of the mafia. Miskovic suits and rides in a bulletproof Hummer , constantly surrounded by eight bodyguard /Policemen . ... Miroslav Miskovic, owner of Delta Holding Europe. Delta Europe is a conglomerate with business in Europe . LDP legal team yesterday completed its criminal lawsuit against 'Delta' president Miroslav Miskovic. 'Blic' request to Miskovic to give statement on the ...LDP criminal complaint against Miroslav Mišković. 19 November 2008. B92 is publishing a document Čedomir Jovanović's Liberal-Democratic Party (LDP) = Miskovic 72 criminal convition made U.S. embassy denies Mišković document. 22 November 2007 | 09:24 -> 16:24 | Source: ... over Mišković's kidnapping by the Zemun Clan criminal group in 2001. ... Mišković said in his letter that he was kidnapped "by a group of policemen and gangsters who carried the Milošević-era State Security badges." calling him a friend of the mafia. Miskovic suits and rides in a jeep, constantly surrounded by 8 bodyguards. ... Miroslav Miskovic, owner of Delta Holding. Delta is a conglomerate with business in ... August 28,2009 Four members of the Zemun Clan criminal group have received prison sentences totaling over 460 years. Milorad Ulemek, Vladimir Milisavljević Zemun Clan ringleaders sentenced to 460 years altogether 18 January 2008 | 13:09 -> 15:45 | Source: B92, Tanjug BELGRADE -- Four members of the Zemun Clan criminal group have received prison sentences totaling over 460 years. Milorad Ulemek, Vladimir Milisavljević, Sretko Kalinić and Miloš Simović – all of whom, except Ulemek, are still on the run - have received 40 years each.Aleksandar Simović, Nikola Bajić and Đorđe Slavković were sentenced to 35 years. Milan Glišović will spend 32 years behind bars and Selman Hamidović 10. Dušan Krsmanović, who expressed his remorse for the crimes during the trial, was sentenced to 20 years.Former police officer Slobodan Pažin received seven and a half years.Milan Jurišić was sentenced to 34 years, Darko Milićević 13, Dragan Miladinović 5, Slobodan Kovačić 4, Bojan Dolić four and a half, and Darko Milić to 5 years.Toni Gavrić will spend three years behind bars, as will Predrag Maletić, while Saša Petrović was sentenced to five years.Nenad Opačić, Aleksandar Zdravković were acquitted because their crimes had expired, as were Ninoslav Konstantinović and Dejan Ranđelović who are still on the run.Ulemek and several other defendants were ordered to pay businessman Miroslav Miskovic EUR $30M in damages within the next fortnight. If they fail to do so, their assets will be seized.Ulemek was acquitted of some of the murders as well as of the abduction of Miroslav Miskovic .However, the Zemun Clan will have to pay MIroslav Miskovic , EUR $30M in damages. Proceedings are still under way.The Zemun Clan are accused of criminal association, 17 murders, three abductions and two terrorist attacks.Of the 30 accused, six are on the run. The verdict is being delivered by a panel of three judges, presided by Milimir Lukić. The Zemun Clan members were initially accused of the murder of the late prime minister, Zoran Đinđić, before the indictment was split,the trial has run for over 100 working days. The Forbes magazine's annual list of the wealthiest people in the world includes a person from Serbia for the first time. Miroslav Miskovic, the business partner of the wealthiest Croat, Ivica Todoric, is in the 891st place on the list of 1,000 billionaires.
Miroslav Miskovic was born on July 15, 1945 in Krusevac. He got his degree at the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade in 1971.
For a while, he worked for Jugobanka and Trajal in Krusevac and then he moved on to Chemical Industry Zupa in 1984 and became the company's CEO in 1987. He remained in that position until 1990, when he was elected Vice-President of the Serbian Government.
In the early 1990s, Miskovic founded the company Delta M, which became successful in Yugoslavia during the war. The Delta Holding corporation deals with agricultural business, distribution, property development, and insurance. It owns the following chain stores: Maksi, Tempo, C Market, and Pekabeta.
Last year, Miskovic became business partners with Ivica Todoric, who owns Agrokor, with the aim to conquer the markets in the countries of the former Yugoslavia.Serbia may gain EU candidate status in 2009 but must crack down on corporate corruption, enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn said at a Brussels event organised by Serb supermarket baron Miroslav Miskovic on Monday (20 October). "I believe that, if conditions are met, [Serbia] could get candidate status next year," the commissioner said, "welcoming" Belgrade's decision last week to unilaterally implement the trade section of the EU's Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA). The EU's ratification of the SAA - an important pre-accession treaty - is on hold over Dutch objections that Serb war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic remains at large. But Mr Rehn's speech targeted changes among the country's business elite instead. "In the legal vacuum that followed the collapse of former Yugoslavia, corruption, organised crime, tax evasion, financial fraud as well as the grey economy emerged as serious problems," he said. "Justice, freedom and security, including the fight against corruption and organised crime are therefore EU priorities in Serbia." "The mere signing of the [SAA] agreement is not sufficient," the commissioner added. "Ultimately, we rely on you, on the economic operators, to promote the respect of [EU] rules." Mr Rehn made the remarks at a meeting of 30 to 40 CEOs of Serbian companies at Brussels' swanky Conrad Hotel. The event was organised by one of Serbia's richest men, Delta Holding chief Miroslav Miskovic, who has himself faced corruption allegations and who came to Brussels to sit alongside the commissioner on a discussion panel. The billionaire financier and supermarket baron - a former deputy prime minister of Serb nationalist leader Slobodan Milosevic - was in 2007 accused by Serbia's Anti Corruption Council of using political ties to try to establish a retail monopoly. MPs from Serbia's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) have also pointed the finger at Mr Rehn's host for alleged involvement in cigarette-smuggling. "Pervasive political corruption undermines democratic interests in Serbia ... at the heart of this corruption is the President of Delta Holding Miroslav Miskovic. Serbia will not be able to move forward democratically as well as economically until the monopoly over Serbia's daily life by this Milosevic-era tycoon is ended," an internal note by the US embassy in Belgrade dated May 2007 and leaked by the LDP said. A spokeswoman for the enlargement commissioner said Mr Rehn's anti-corruption speech was not aimed at Mr Miskovic personally and that there was no risk his participation at the Delta Holding event risked lending the company his good name. "Certainly not. This problem [corruption] is very widespread in the Balkans," she explained. "He [the commissioner] did not participate for the sake of any one person." Serbia came in at joint 85th place on NGO Transparency International 2008 corruption index along with Albania, Madagascar and Panama, slipping down from 79th place the year before. An EU report on the country's progress is due next month.