Inspectors for combating economic crime from the Podgorica Security Center are checking the operations of the Montefarma pharmacy and, as Dnevne Novine has learned, the subject of the checks are multimillion-dollar suspicious tenders for the procurement of medicines.
A few days ago, the inspectors of the criminal police, on the order of the Basic State Prosecutor in Podgorica, took the business documents of Montefarma, which will be subjected to a detailed analysis in the coming period.
The reason for the checks are suspicions expressed in the media and operational information that there are certain abuses in the implementation of tender procedures, worth several million.
"When the checks are completed, the hearings of the authorities will follow, both in Montefarm and in the Commission for the Control of Public Procurement and the Health Insurance Fund," said the newspaper's interlocutor from the prosecutor's office.
The media previously wrote that for many years, several drug trading companies had an advantage in tenders under strange circumstances. The Commission for the Control of the Public Procurement Procedure this year also found a series of irregularities in Montefarma's annual tender, because contracts for the procurement of medicines were awarded to companies that are not registered for that activity.
Procurement of medicines and medical equipment through tender will be the subject of a control hearing before the Parliamentary Committee for Health, Labor and Social Welfare, which will be held at the end of September.
Minister of Health Miodrag Radunović, director of the Health Insurance Fund Kenan Hrapović, Clinical Center Milan Mijović and Montefarma Budimir Stanišić will be heard at the Committee, as well as the head of the Public Procurement Administration, Mersad Mujević.
According to previously published data, EUR 26,5 million is planned for the procurement of medicines for this year.
So far, about 100 lots, worth 2,5 million euros, have been disputed in those procedures.
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