Damaged the state for 1.823.000 euros?

The former president and members of the Government Housing Commission damaged the state for 1.823.000 euros by distributing housing loans to over a hundred prosecutors, judges, deputies, ministers and other civil servants and officials from 2016 to the end of 2020.

This is written in the Government's criminal complaint, which is being investigated by the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) due to the suspicion that officials of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), Social Democrats (SD) and Bosniak Party (BS), engaged in the Commission, obtained material benefits for others by exceeding their authority.

On the long list of officials to whom the Commission, headed by the then minister Predrag Boskovic (DPS), distributed loans beyond the Decision on the method and criteria for solving the housing needs of officials, were the former supreme state prosecutor Ivica Stankovic, former President of the Supreme Court Vesna Medenica, former president of the Commercial Court Blazo Jovanić, Deputy Prime Minister and leader of BS Ervin Ibrahimovic, former senior prosecutor Vesna Jovićević, former deputy and ambassador Edited by Mišo Stanišić...

By the end of the year, the Assembly could revoke the immunity of MPs who SDT accuses of having committed the prolonged criminal offense of abuse of office during the DPS government, as part of the government commission.

President of the Parliamentary Administrative Committee Dragan Krapović (Democrats), he told "Vijesti" that she is the head of the parliament Danijela Đurović sent the SDT's request to revoke immunity to that body for further jurisdiction.

"According to President Đurović's letter, I will relatively soon schedule a meeting of the Committee where we will take a position on the subject request for granting approval for the criminal prosecution of several fellow MPs", he pointed out.

According to the Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, the Administrative Board is obliged to submit a report with a proposal, as a rule, at the first following session. Bearing in mind Krapović's announcement, the fact that the autumn session lasts until the end of December and then follows an extraordinary session that lasts until the end of February, this means that the parliament could give the "green light" to the SDT for prosecuting MPs by the New Year.

SDT, based on the Government's criminal complaint from October 13, established a case and requested the cancellation of the immunity of DPS MPs Bošković, Dragica Sekulić i Suzana Pribilović, and SD Ivan Brajović i Damir Šehović.

In addition to them, the investigation also included former ministers Budimir Apprentice, Suad Numanović, Sanja Vlahovic i Osman Nurkovic, former head of the President's Cabinet and former consul in Sremski Karlovci Drazen Milickovic, former Secretary General of the Assembly Aleksandar Jovićević, and former assistant to the general secretary Jelena Radonjic. Immunity does not protect them from criminal prosecution.

The SDT, according to information from "Vijesti", established that there is an appropriate degree of suspicion that the former members of the Government Commission from 2016 to 2020 committed the extended criminal offense of abuse of official position, by Bošković as president, and the others as members, making decisions on solving the housing needs of officials contrary to the Government's Decision, and thus obtained material benefits for others that exceed 30.000 euros.

At the beginning of July, the government canceled the Decision on the method and criteria for solving the housing needs of officials. Previously, in May, the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption issued an opinion on it, in which, among other things, it assessed that its provisions carry an increased risk of corruption.

There is a majority in parliament for the decision to abolish immunity, given that, apart from the parties of the August XNUMXth majority, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) also announced its support. On the other hand, the DPS say that their MPs' immunity should not be revoked, because, as they say, they will waive it, while the SD assess that the SDT has put itself in the position of prime minister Dritan Abazović.

Member of the Democratic Front (DF) Jovan Vučurović, told "Vijesti" that they will support SDT's request.

"A distinction should be made between removing the immunity of DF MPs, who were also sentenced to detention, who were completely innocent and which was the result of political persecution, and removing the immunity of members of the DPS who have been looting and destroying the state for decades", he stated.

Vučurović said that he believes that the investigation should also include the former prime minister Duško Marković, who, according to him, "ran" for it with the last statement - that his government resolved housing issues "in accordance with the procedure and planned means".

Marković said this yesterday, commenting on SDT's request.

Head of the Democrats Parliamentary Club Boris Bogdanovic, also confirmed to the list that the party will vote for the abolition of immunity.

The leader of the Citizens' Movement (GP) URA and the Prime Minister, who filed the criminal complaint, said yesterday in Brussels that his colleagues will vote for the SDT's request.

The SDP told "Vijesta" that they will support the removal of immunity now, as they did all the previous times.

"We expect the prosecutor to come and explain the request, and we expect the Prosecutor's Office to consider all applications in the same way, professionally and responsibly, regardless of who the applicant is and against whom the application was filed, because this is the only way to earn the public's trust, which is difficult to gain. and he loses easily", they pointed out.

On the other hand, the DPS says that they have no problem with determining responsibility in this case. "We acted on principle when we voted to remove the immunity of our MPs. Others did not vote for the removal of immunity when it came to their MPs. Parts of the SDT instrumentalized themselves with the aim of causing damage to the DPS, and on the order of Abazović... You don't have to take away our immunities, we will give up all of them," the head of the DPS parliamentary club told the press. Danijel Zivkovic.

He said that, based on his conviction and knowledge of his colleagues who were in the Commission, he believes that they respected the law and "so as not to exceed their authority and assign something to someone that does not belong to them". "Many moral verticals got apartments in this way. He got it Zdravko Krivokapic, Dragan Šoć, Branka Bosniak... We will come out with information about who all got apartments in this way", he said.

The applicants themselves estimated how much money they needed

In the criminal complaint, it is stated that the Commission made decisions on the granting of loans contrary to the provision of the Article of the Decision, which stipulates that an official can be granted a loan "for improving living conditions up to 15.000 euros".

It is added that the requests were formulated in a lump sum and that the Commission was asked for "financial assistance", i.e. the allocation of funds for the repair or reconstruction of residential buildings or houses, while the applicants themselves "estimated" how much funds they needed.

In some requests, the applicants asked for funds for a "permanent solution to the housing issue", without specifying in what way, and that the Commission always made a decision on granting loans "in order to improve housing conditions". In the minutes that were submitted, as it says, as evidence, there is no indication of the examination of the merits of the request during decision-making, nor does it appear from them that the president or the members of the Commission have singled out an opinion, which should have been stated.

In the application, which "Vijesti" had access to, it was stated that all documents related to this were marked with a degree of secrecy.