The Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (ASK) has submitted a case related to the credit card of former Montenegrin President Milo Đukanović to the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT).
This information was confirmed to TVCG by the Vice President of the ASK Council, Mladen Tomović.
As announced, the complete case files have been submitted to the SDT.
Djukanovic violated the Law on the Prevention of Corruption because in 2019 he failed to report the amount of 16.741,24 euros - a debt on a VIP revolving card at Atlas Bank, which was allegedly settled that year by his son Blažo, ASK announced earlier.
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"It is established that Milo Đukanović, as a public official, violated Article 25, paragraph 3, indent 2 of the Law on the Prevention of Corruption because in 2019 he failed to submit to the Agency a Report on Income and Assets in the event of a change from the Report relating to an increase in assets, within the legally prescribed deadline, and thus failed to report the amount of 16.741,24 euros that he was obliged to report as an increase in assets," reads the Agency's decision, signed by Acting Director Dušan Drakić.
The initiative to initiate the proceedings was launched almost six years ago by the Network for the Affirmation of the Non-Governmental Sector (MANS), but the Agency's previous leadership rejected the possibility of conducting proceedings against Đukanović.
MANS appealed this decision to the Administrative Court, which ordered the Agency to carry out the procedure.
Former Agency Director Jelena Perović, who will soon be tried on suspicion of abuse of position, began and then discontinued the proceedings, explaining that they would be continued “after the conclusion of the proceedings before the Commercial Court in case P no. 210/21”.
The Administrative Court overturned that decision of the Agency as well.
On Friday, Đukanović announced that he would file a lawsuit with the Administrative Court regarding the ASK decision.
In a statement to the media, he stated that the adoption of an administrative act, without the prior opportunity to comment on the results of the investigation procedure, despite the explicit legal obligation of ASK to provide him with that right, indicates an obvious intention to violate Article 14 of the Law on Administrative Procedure.
"Such conduct, in itself, implies holding accountable those who knowingly and intentionally violate the law, in order to meet the expectations of those protagonists of the political scene under whose pressure they work, and who see their political opus as no more than trite sensationalism of this type," said Đukanović.
He assessed that the tendency towards cheap and targeted sensationalism is also indicated by the publication of the decision and the informing of the media before the decision is delivered to the party to which it relates.
"Regarding the legal illiteracy of the decision, everything that needs to be said will be found in the lawsuit that I will file with the Administrative Court, immediately after I am finally honored to be served with the decision in question," Đukanović pointed out.
He said that the fact that the competent court issued two verdicts in his favor, which factually and legally confirm that the alleged debt to the bank did not exist and establish a violation of personal rights, due to the presentation of brutal untruths, was ignored.
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