Favorable loans for nine of Brajović's men

This year, the government granted housing loans under favorable conditions to more than 50 civil servants, most of whom are employed in ministries. The list, which has been declared secret, includes State Secretary in the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism (MORT) Predrag Jelušić, employee of the Montenegrin Olympic Committee and long-time RTCG journalist Ranko Jovović, and advisers in the ministries of Branimir Gvozdenović, Ivan Brajović, Vujica Lazović...

They are only a part of the privileged officials, including prosecutors, judges and ministers, who solved housing problems or moved into more comfortable properties a few months before the elections. The list of the Commission for solving housing issues, headed by the Minister of Education Predrag Bošković, which was verified at the Government sessions in March and April, includes officials and relatives of the SDP, a party that was already in opposition at the time.

"Vijesti" previously published unofficial data that the apartments have been obtained or are being used by the Ministers of Justice Zoran Pažin and without portfolio Marija Vučinović, Vice President of the Assembly Suljo Mustafić, Advisor to the Prime Minister Srđan Kusovac, President of the Constitutional Court Desanka Lopičić, and special prosecutors. Veljko Rutović and Saša Čađenović. The government also granted apartments or loans under favorable conditions to the Supreme State Prosecutor Ivica Stanković, DPS MP Obrad Miš Stanišić and Mubera Kurpejović of the Social Democrats (SD), the head of the Clinical Center Ranko Lazović.

Housing loans of 15.000 euros were received by the state secretary in MORT Jelušić and Jovović from COK.

The list of those who received housing loans in the amount of 5.000 to 40.000 euros includes heads of directorates and advisers in ministries, directors of public institutions, professors, doctors, employees of the Assembly...

Nine employees in the Ministry of Transport and Maritime Affairs of Ivan Brajović (SD) received 10.000 euros each this year. They are Tanja Dašić, Tatjana Dulović, Marko Stijepović, Milica Vuković, Ksenia Đurišić, Jelena Vujović, Lidija Mitrović, Miroslav Mašić and Dalibor Milošević. The department did not answer the question of "Vijesti" on the basis of which their employees received housing loans.

Loans and apartments were approved on the basis of two Government decisions approved by Prime Minister Milo Đukanović in 2014.

One of the benefits of the decision is that the Government allows officials to buy an apartment on credit up to 80 percent cheaper than its value on the market.

The director of the Center for Social Work in Podgorica, Ana Stijepović, received a loan of 30.000, according to "Vijesti", to solve the housing issue, while her colleague Ivan Mitrović, who heads the center in Nikšić, received 10.000 less.

The directors of the Directorates in the MUP - Ivan Ivanišević and Miloš Vukčević (20.000), Dragana Ranitović and Abid Crnovršanin (15.000) and State Secretary Jadranka Vojinović (20.000) also received loans. Some of them are no longer in office because they left the MUP as SDP cadres, after the coalition with the DPS was dissolved, and Raško Konjević left the post of minister. It is interesting that his mother Vinka, who is a teacher at the Vaso Aligrudić High School of Electrical Engineering, received a 30.000 euro loan from the Government.

The director of the Agency for Peaceful Dispute Resolution, Zdenka Burzan, also received a loan of 25.000 euros.

KCCG doctor Velimir Milošević received a loan of 30.000 euros, and Dragana Radunović, a general practitioner at the Nikšić Health Center, 15.000 euros. The director of the Children's Home "Mladost" from Bijela, Borislav Đukanović, received 15.000, as well as the heads of the Old People's Home "Grahovac" Zoran Vukićević and the Center for Children and Youth "Ljubović" Mirjana Đurić.

The Government did not answer the questions of "Vijesti" about the criteria used when granting housing loans and whether this could indicate corruption, given that they were approved in an election year.