The owner of Kombinat aluminum Podgorica, Veselin Pejović, threatened the director of the Environmental Protection Agency, Milan Gazdić, after he received from that institution decisions on the collection of an eco fee of 808.171 euros within 15 days, under the threat of forced collection.
"What did you send me this for, I remember you in the title? "I'm going to give you a mother, you'll see, I'll show you," said the man from Nikšić in a phone conversation with Gazdić, according to the interlocutor of "Vijesti" from the investigation.
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Gazdić then reported the threats to the police, and Pejović was arrested on suspicion of endangering the safety of the Agency's director.
After hearing the incident, the police informed the state prosecutor in the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica, who assessed that Pejović's actions did not contain elements of a criminal offense for which prosecution is undertaken ex officio:
"Those police officers deprived the VP of his freedom due to violations from Articles 7 and 8 of the Law on Public Order and Peace".
Pejović was released yesterday, after a hearing in the Court for Misdemeanors.
He did not want to comment on the arrest.
The Court for Misdemeanors did not inform the public whether the procedure was completed yesterday and, if so, how.
According to the Law on Public Order and Peace, Pejović could be fined or sent to prison for up to 60 days for the offense he committed.
Solutions
Gazdić, as the director of the Nature Protection Agency, in the last two months managed to collect 137.268,10 euros from Pejović's company in arrears of eco-fees and fees due to environmental pollution.
According to the documents that "Vijesti" has access to, these fees and fines have not been paid since 2016.
On October 1st, Gazdić issued a decision amending all the previous ones, which KAP did not pay, and which Pejović was ordered to pay successively, every month until the end of the year.
All solutions were submitted to Uniprom, which took over the organization of production during the bankruptcy proceedings of the sale of KAP's assets.
It was also explained that it is Uniprom that is the user of the plant, and therefore liable to pay the eco-fee in accordance with the regulations.
One of the decisions made on the first day of October required him to pay 101.830,83 euros in compensation for environmental pollution. On the same day, he received a decision to pay 15 euros within 35.437,27 days.
Twenty-five days later, he was sent a decision to pay 30.886,83 euros in fees for creating and depositing hazardous waste during 2020.
Four days ago, the Agency sent him a decision obliging him to pay 20.198,76 euros in compensation for environmental pollution, which KAP did not pay from May 1, 2016 to April 30, 2017. He also received a document according to which he is obliged to pay 1.164, then 98,52 euros and 6.84 euros for the same period, on the same basis.
On the same day, Gazdić signed a decision asking Uniprom to pay them 348.009,12 euros, then 176.959,68 euros, 24.279,84 euros and 480,48 euros.
That day he also received a bill for 1.072,80 euros.
He was also told that, if he does not pay, the bills will be forcibly collected, with interest, and that the costs of forced collection will be borne by him.
"You will not scare us"
Yesterday, the Ministry of Ecology, Spatial Planning and Urbanism (MEPG) told Veselin Pejović that he must understand that everyone is equal before the law:
"And that the law must be respected, no matter who it was".
They announced that they strongly condemn Pejović's threats to Gazdić:
"And any attempt to put pressure on people who conscientiously, responsibly and professionally do their work... Threats will not intimidate us to do our work professionally and principled", it was announced from MEPG.
He was put on trial for threatening Medojević
In 2015, Pejović was given a final conditional sentence for endangering the security of PzP leader Nebojša Medojević.
That was decided by the High Court, which confirmed the verdict of colleagues from the Basic Court in Podgorica, by which he was sentenced to a conditional sentence of five months in prison, if he commits a new criminal offense in the next year. The criminal offense of jeopardizing security is punishable by a fine or up to one year in prison.
The man from Nikšić was on trial because he physically assaulted Medojević at the Belgrade airport, and then announced to journalists in front of the Basic Court in Podgorica that he would "spit and slap" the politician wherever he saw him.
"Wherever I see him, for the rest of my life I'm going to spit and slap him, because that's a woman, it's better for her to wear a skirt, than to spread lies," said Pejović in the courtroom.
A few hours later, after the reactions of the public, he said that his words were taken out of context and therefore sound "inappropriate and offensive".
The businessman from Nikšić claimed that he reacted that way in Belgrade, because the deputy publicly accused him of belonging to Darko Šarić's drug cartel, that he would follow the money through KAP, that he had no reference to run that company and that he did not intend to slap Medojević wherever he was. see...
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