The Directorate for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions (UIKS) has not submitted the necessary documentation for the assessment of the implementation of several recommendations, the State Audit Institution (DRI) announced today.
The SAI statement states that the institution has published a Report on the Implementation of Recommendations from the Report on the Audit of the Annual Financial Report of the Administration for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions for 2022.
"The State Audit Institution carried out a control of the implementation of recommendations based on the second Report on the implementation of the recommendations of the Administration for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions given in the Report on the Audit of the Annual Financial Report for 2022," the statement states.
The SAI added that the Competent SAI Collegium, consisting of: the Chairman of the SAI Senate, Senator Nikola N. Kovačević - Head of the Collegium, and Senator Dr. Milan Dabović - Member of the Collegium, after the second control, determined that UIKS, in the reporting period from the adoption of the SAI Audit Report until January 28, 2025, implemented 23 out of a total of 51 recommendations, 11 recommendations were partially implemented, 14 recommendations were not implemented, while the status of three recommendations was not determined.
"The Directorate for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions has not submitted the necessary documentation for the assessment of the implementation of the recommendations, which relate to the following: establishing internal controls; overcoming problems in cooperation with competent authorities regarding the need to engage persons under a service contract for work from systematized positions; adopting internal procedures on the amount of hourly compensation for certain types of work for persons deprived of their liberty and on cash transactions related to deposits of persons deprived of their liberty; reducing cash payments and disbursements of deposits to persons deprived of their liberty; introducing software on transactions with deposits of persons deprived of their liberty in the cash registers of the Podgorica Remand Prison and Bijelo Polje Prison, as well as adopting an internal act on the number of jobs by type of work performed by prisoners in prison. The control also determined that for a certain number of employees of the Directorate, the number of hours of overtime was calculated above the limit set by law and that the payment was made based on an agreement on compensation for damage," the SAI statement reads.
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