The trade union organization Luka Bar asked the acting executive director of the company, Dragan Nikezić, and the president of the Board of Directors, Vojin Žugić, for an explanation regarding the posting of a part of unpaid salaries to the employees of that company.
The trade unionists claim that around 3,7 million euros of extraordinary expenses on the basis of work, of which the largest part of the debt owed to the workers was paid this summer, and bearing in mind that these are figures greater than one percent of income, can be booked in accordance with the rulebook on accounting and accounting policies of the Port of Bar. That rulebook stipulates that extraordinary expenses are booked as an uncovered loss from previous years, and not as this year's expenses, as it was in the final, after an extraordinary review of half-year operations, booked at the end of August this year.
Article 34 of the Rulebook, as noted by trade unionists, stipulates that subsequently determined costs from earlier years are treated as losses from previous years. The half-yearly loss of Luka Bar totaled slightly more than four million euros.
Regardless of who sits in the chair of the new executive director Luka Bar, based on the competition that is open until the end of this working week, he will have to count on multi-million losses of the bar company, which he will have to sign at the end of this business year, through no fault of his own.
This year's unfulfilled business plan of the company for eight months, led by former director Zaria Franović, contributed to this, during whose directorship there was a significant drop in transshipment volume. However, the largest item in the expenses is the inherited extraordinary expenses arising from the difference in the part of unpaid wages to the employees of the bar company from October 2009 to the end of April 2016, which were mostly "paid for" by DPS official and former executive director of Luka Bar Slobo Pajović.
The audit board of Luka Bar, after an extraordinary audit of the half-yearly operations, fully agreed "that the salary costs from the earlier period should be treated with the attitude for posting "expenses from earlier reporting periods/obligations to employees", with the fact that from the total amount of 3,72 million euros , to the joint stock company itself (without LLC) refers 2,7 million, which should be entered in the six-monthly report. At the same time, with other limited liability companies (DOO), owned by Luka Bar, the remaining amount of one million euros should be entered in the six-month report. On the consolidated level, the total expenditure from earlier reporting periods, on this basis, is EUR 3,7 million.
Žugić and Nikezić contracted jobs last year, now they are in charge together
The fact that the Government of Montenegro does not take into account the highly intertwined and often conflicting private interests surrounding our largest systems when selecting personnel is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that Dragan Nikezić, as the director of the harbor hotel "Sidro" DOO, last year with Vojin Žugić, then only as the director of his private company Stadion, contracted, after a tender procedure was carried out, the annual supply of soft drinks and water to the port company, based on two contracts (which "Vijesti" had access to).
Nikezić and Žugić currently cover the functions of CEO and President of the Board Luka Bar.
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