The Ministry of Finance and Social Welfare initiated the procedure for the dismissal of Monstat director Gordana Radojević due to established irregularities and illegality in her work, "Vijesti" learned from a source in the Government.
A request was submitted to her to state the findings of the Ministry, that is, the initiation of the dismissal procedure, in accordance with Article 14 of the Law on Administrative Procedure.
As the source of "Vijesti" explained, Article 74 of the Law on State Administration stipulates that the administrative body, at least once a year, submits to the Ministry (which supervises it) a report on the work and the situation in the areas for which it was established, as well as that the report contains data on the realization of goals from the work program of the administrative body, an overview of the measures and activities undertaken to fulfill the set goals, a description of the implementation of laws and other regulations, a proposal for measures to improve the situation in the area for which it was established, as well as a financial report.
"On inspection of the report for 2020, which Monstat submitted at the request of the Ministry of Finance, it was determined that it does not contain any data related to the financial report of the authority, which the aforementioned provision of the law clearly states as the mandatory content of the report, which clearly refers to irregularities in the work of the authority in terms of drafting. That provision of the law includes the submission of a report, with all the elements prescribed by law, which the authority must take into account by official duty, while Monstat submitted the report only at the insistence of the Ministry", said the source of "Vijesti" ".
According to unofficial information, at the request of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management, it was established that Monstat, by not publishing the collected data on the structure of farms from 2016, made it impossible to implement an international grant project funded by the FAO based on the final and published data, and thus allegedly caused damage to the state.
"Those data were needed by the Ministry of Agriculture to establish the FADN system, as one of the final benchmarks for closing Chapter 11 - agriculture and rural development, and by not publishing those data, Monstat threatened the closing of the negotiation chapter and Montenegro's European path. In the statement related to this issue, Radojević did not give valid reasons for not publishing the data, which are still considered preliminary, although according to Radojević, the conditions for this were met as early as 2019. In addition, from the indications of the Ministry of Agriculture, the statement of Monstat and other documents, it is clearly established that Monstat continuously in its annual reports stated incorrect data that statistical researches of agricultural accounts were carried out, even though this was not the case. In the annual plan of official statistics for 2021, this is foreseen as a trial survey, and according to the plan from 2018, this survey became regular, which means that the data had to be published by September 28, 2018, which was not done. the "Vijesti" source states.
He also said that irregularities were observed in the concealment of data, that currently the only available data on the structure of farms is from 2010, which, due to the passage of time, undoubtedly cannot show the real situation, since it is certain that serious changes have occurred in the structure of farms. for a period of 11 years.
"Such actions by Monstat, whose responsible person is the director, led to chapter 11 stagnating in progress, and the agricultural policy being created without final data, that is, only on the basis of preliminary data, which can differ significantly from the final data".
The source of "Vijesti" clarifies that, due to all observed irregularities, the Ministry of Finance, according to Article 60 of the Law on Civil Servants and State Employees, had the obligation to ex officio initiate the procedure for the dismissal of Radojević.
He also states that it has been assessed that irregularities in the work of Monstat affect the functioning of the Ministry of Finance and other government departments, because their work depends on the quality of the data that Monstat collects.
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