Jovović: Tajić's text is full of untruths

Regarding the statements of the director of "Barska plovidba" Zoran Tajić in the text "Tajić: We cannot terminate the contract until the end of the year", Aleksandar Jovović, a former member of the board of directors of that company, who was mentioned by Tajić, reacted. "Vijesti" fully publishes Jovović's response.

"Obviously driven by a lack of arguments to deny the facts published by the journalist ND "Vijesti" in the text "Sea Pioneer is offered ships below the price", CEO Zoran Tajić used the opportunity to attack me with his schizophrenic constructions and conspiracy theories characteristic of the narrow party environment to which he belongs. On that occasion, he wrote a bunch of untruths, which I was forced to deny one by one with the popular saying "a lie has short legs".

The first in a series of uttered falsehoods is that I ordered the text, in order to put pressure (I don't know on whom) in order to make "quick money" (I don't know how when I don't personally own any share of "Barska plovidba"). Resignation, which is the subject of the text that ND "Vijesti" processed on August 13.08.2021, 11.07.2021. was sent to Zoran Tajić and his colleagues from the board of directors by e-mail on XNUMX. years. It is logical that I wanted to publicly exploit it through the media, to do it a day or two after resigning as a member of the board of directors.

The second untruth stated is that representatives of minority shareholders supported giving the executive director a salary contract higher than that allowed by the law on wages in the public sector until the adoption of a new collective agreement. I voted against, and the decision was made by overvoting us, the representatives of the minority shareholders, by the representatives of the state capital. To make the irony even greater, as an explanation for their illegal decision, they announced that "Barska plovidba" does not have to apply the law on wages in the public sector, because it supposedly has no debt to the state (they even offered to send us a confirmation that they are on the white list). In order to remove the dilemma regarding who is telling the truth, I am submitting to the public part of the minutes from the OD session held on May 14.05.2021, XNUMX. year, which was not written by me but by Tajić's closest collaborators.

The third untruth is that I voted against the decisions proposed by the board of directors at the Shareholders' Meeting held on June 30.06.2021, 79. years. I was present at the Shareholders' Assembly as a member of the board of directors, without the right to vote, who presented and explained the proposed decisions. The shareholders who own XNUMX% of the Company's capital unanimously passed judgment on this and voted against it, and you and your management continued the policy of further borrowing by the company against the will of the shareholders, which is a criminal offense.

The fourth untruth is that no more could have been done regarding the found contract. From the very beginning, you excluded the board of directors from that activity and thereby assumed responsibility for success or failure. Unfortunately, yesterday I had the opportunity to see that you offered "Sea Pioneer" a new harmful contract at prices lower than the market at that moment without the consent of the board of directors. Considering that your management is a complete set that is directly responsible for the damage caused to "Barska plovidba" so far, and also for what you call a harmful contract, ask them how "Barska plovidba" agreed to, on the basis of a written request from "Sea Pioneer" and referring to maritime authorities, to its own detriment, change the three-year contract signed in 2014 with the same tenant to an even stronger three-year contract and that the agreed rental prices for the second year of the contract of $10.200 and for the third year of the contract 10.800 8.000$ down to 1.500.000$ and thereby causing damage to Barska plovidba exceeding XNUMX euros.

Fifth, by posting incomplete information about the starting part of the earnings, you insult the intelligence of the shareholders, at least these minority ones. And the law is clear, you are entitled to the gross earnings determined by multiplying the coefficient of 20,75 with the calculation unit of 90 euros, with the obligation to reduce it for every year that the company you manage ends up with a loss, which is far less than what you bargained for with the representatives of state capital.

The attempt to equate a series of criminal activities that are the subject of investigations (illegal indebtedness of the Company by the previous and current management against the will of 79% of the capital owners, illegal purchase of ships against the will of the shareholders, leasing of high-value assets (ships) by the same management without the consent of the shareholders) sounds ridiculous with the legitimate right of each shareholder to, in accordance with Article 127 of the Companies Act, request payment at the market price of the shares in the event that the Company's management, when disposing of the assets of great value adopts a decision to the detriment of shareholders.

Finally, if after all the above it is not clear to you why the minority shareholders want a separation, take a look at the balance sheets as of June 30.06.2021, 4. or put on paper what you have done for these 2.000 months of your mandate in the interest of the company "Barska plovidba", how much you have reduced the company's costs, how much you have freed up redundant employees, how much new income you have brought by putting into operation 2 mXNUMX of real estate in the very center of Bar that are not in operation...", stated Jovović.