On Monday, May 31, members of the Ulcinj parliament should establish a survey committee that will investigate how, even six years after receiving a loan from the German Development Bank (KfW) in the amount of 20 million euros, the implementation of the water supply and waste water disposal project has not started, they learn. News”. The loan is covered by a government guarantee.
According to unofficial information from "Vijesti", the proposal of the councilor and president of the SDP municipal committee, Naser Resulbegović, to open a parliamentary investigation and establish a survey committee, received the support of all councilor clubs at the collegium of the president of the local parliament held at the end of last week.
In December 2013, a loan agreement of 20 million out of a total of 36 million borrowed from KfW was signed with the Ulcinj authorities. Two years later, a contract was signed on the transfer of money, for which the Government gave a guarantee. The deadline for disposing of the money expired at the end of last year.
The five-year grace period for that loan expired in April this year, when the first installment of 900.000 euros was due to the Municipality. According to the contract, the second installment in the same amount will be due in October of this year.
The municipality has already paid a risk fee to KfW Bank in the amount of 140.000 euros and withdrawn a 1,2 million euro loan.
"Vijesti" previously announced that inspectors of the criminal police are checking whether and how much the state was damaged in the deal with KfW bank, in which the Government was embezzled. According to our knowledge, the inspectors are looking for complete documentation on the case.
The Ministry of Finance and Social Welfare was looking for a way to postpone the payment of the due installment in order to keep Ulcinj in the running for what is probably the most significant project in the city's recent history.
In Resulbegović's proposal, it is emphasized "that the survey committee, in addition to determining the reasons and possible responsibility for the incomprehensible delay in the implementation of the project, should also answer many other questions, and above all, whether the money from the approved loan directed to the Municipality of Ulcinj has been paid and where it is located." .
There are also questions about whether the money was diverted to another user, whether it is still operational, and whether the implementation of the project as a whole could be called into question.
"If that happens, the survey committee should determine whether the Municipality of Ulcinj has the obligation to return the loan that it did not use," Resulbegović's proposal reads.
The proposal raises the question of whether a grant in the amount of two million euros, which the bank approved to the Municipality of Ulcinj for that loan, was paid, and if so, when it was paid and for what purpose the money was spent.
The survey committee should also examine whether the Municipality paid penalties due to the delay in the implementation of the project and due to non-withdrawal of the provided money, on what basis and in what amount.
"Does the Municipality of Ulcinj have an obligation to pay additional fees for the continuation of the implementation of the project, and if so, in what amount, on what basis and from which sources will these additional costs be paid?", are the questions in the proposal submitted to the President of the SO Hadži Sulejmani.
According to the proposal, the survey committee should finish its work and submit a report to the Assembly within 30 days from the decision on its formation.
It is not known what the Commission for Monitoring the Spending of Money was doing
In the proposal, Resulbegović reminds that the then President of the Municipality of Ulcinj was authorized by the parliamentary decision from 2015 to conclude a sub-credit agreement with the Ministry of Finance on the transfer of loan funds, where the dynamics and conditions of returning that money will be defined.
"As well as obliging the President of the Municipality of Ulcinj and the competent authorities to submit six-monthly reports to the Assembly on the implementation of the project. "Unfortunately, we are witnesses that, from the moment these decisions were made until today, not a single report on the implementation of the project has been submitted by the competent authorities and all the presidents of the Municipality, the Assembly and councilors," Resulbegović points out in the proposal.
He reminds that in October 2015, the municipal parliament formed the Commission for supervision and monitoring of the implementation of the money received for this project.
"The commission had eight members and a president. The decision of the SO defined the task and compensation for the Commission's work, which fell under the burden of the Municipality's budget. The commission never submitted a report on its work to the Assembly, and the question is whether it ever met," said Resulbegović.
According to the proposal, the survey committee should finish its work and submit a report to the Assembly within 30 days from the decision on its formation.
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