Removal of the immunity of the members of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) and Social Democrats (SD), suspected of abuse of official position by illegal allocation of apartments, will be on the agenda of the first regular (spring) session of the Assembly in March, if there is no request to convene an extraordinary session by then.
This is what the Office of the President of the Assembly told "Vijesta". Danijela Đurović.
After the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) filed a case based on the Government's criminal complaint in December, it asked the Assembly for approval to revoke the immunity of DPS MPs. Predrag Bošković, Suzana Pribilović i Dragica Sekulić, including Ivan Brajović i Damir Šehović from SD. 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.
On December 22, the administrative committee unanimously proposed removing the immunity of these MPs, but it was not yet considered at the plenum at the end of the year.
When asked why the Assembly has not yet voted on the lifting of the immunity of DPS and SD MPs, the President's Cabinet replied that an agreement was reached at the Collegium of the President of the Assembly that this issue should be discussed at a session attended by all MPs.
"Until the end of December, when the regular (autumn) session of the Assembly was over, the conditions were not met to discuss and vote on this issue," said the Assembly.
The SDT established that there is an appropriate level of suspicion that the former members of the Government Commission from 2016 to 2020 committed a prolonged criminal offense of abuse of official position, in that Bošković as president and the others as members made decisions on solving the housing needs of officials contrary to the decision Governments and thus obtained material benefits for others that exceed 30.000 euros.
The list of officials to whom the Commission distributed loans in addition to the Decision on the method and criteria for solving the housing needs of officials included 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 the Bosniak Party Ervin Ibrahimovic, former senior prosecutor Vesna Jovićević, former deputy of DPS and ambassador Edited by Mišo Stanišić...
The Government's criminal complaint states that the former president and members of the 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 from 2016 to the end of 2020. functionary. 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 the improvement of housing 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.
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.
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