The Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) told "Vijesta" that after the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management filed a case regarding the case of "Vektra Jakić" in order to determine whether a person has committed a criminal offense for which he is being prosecuted ex officio.
"The SDT, within its jurisdiction, undertakes evidentiary actions in order to shed light on the criminal legal event", they said in the SDT.
At the beginning of March, Minister Aleksandar Stijović's portfolio submitted to the SDT documentation regarding this company owned by businessman Dragan Brković, with a report indicating that several former directors of the Forestry Administration, Ministers of Agriculture, and President of the Commercial Court Blažo Jovanić by their illegal actions in the case "Vektre Jakić" caused multi-million damage to the state.
In addition to Jovanić, the ministry listed in the application the names of former directors of the Forestry Administration Nusret Kalač, Mirsad Nurković and Radoš Šućur, former ministers of agriculture Milutin Simović, Petar Ivanović, Tarzan Milošević, former state secretary for forestry Milosav Anđelić, and judge of the Commercial Court Dragan Vučević. Marine Đurović, Nataša Sekulić and Borjanke Zogović.
The Ministry of Agriculture previously told "Vijesta" that the reason for submitting the application was a series of illegal actions by these persons who, by exceeding their authority and failing to perform official duties, damaged the state for more than 12 million euros in the name of non-payment of concession fees, non-maintenance of forest roads, non-conduct of sanitary felling and non-performance forestry in accordance with the law and the concluded concession contract.
In the application, the Ministry indicated that the company "Vektra Jakić" received a concession for the use of state forests before it was registered in the Central Register of Business Entities, and after concluding the contract, it did not provide a guarantee for good performance.
The government did not approve the conclusion of the contract, but subsequently agreed to the contract signed by the Forestry Administration with the company owned by businessman Dragan Brković.
In the documentation that was submitted with the application, it is also stated that UZŠ repeatedly changed the annexes of the contract and reduced the amounts in the decisions on the calculated concession fee without explanation and obtaining the consent of the Government, and that "Vektra Jakić" repeatedly violated the provisions of the contract and did not pay the concession compensation, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development for the entire duration of the contract never performed administrative supervision over the work of UZŠ.
In the application, it was indicated that "Vektra Jakić" did not pay the concession fee for a long period of time from May 2009 to May 2011, as well as from the end of 2011 to 2018, but the UZŠ regularly awarded them a new one. wood mass, instead of terminating the contract and withdrawing the concession, which was her obligation.
At the beginning of March, the Commercial Court abolished the temporary measure by which it prohibited the Forestry Administration from interfering with the company "Vektra Jakić" in the use of forests, with the explanation that "Vektra Jakić" does not pay the concession fee and that the state suffers damage because it does not generate income from the use of state property.
By canceling the temporary measure, that company permanently lost its legal right to the concession.
"Vektra Jakić" has obligations to the state based on the concession fee of 6,39 million euros based on the principal debt and 2,38 million euros on account of accrued interest.
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