A shortfall of EUR 670.000 in the coffers of the Institute for textbooks in 2012 was caused, among other things, by the fact that several thousand sets of textbooks, which were distributed free of charge by DPS activists in the field in August last year, were not paid to the Institute, they learn. News ” from sources close to security circles.
The textbooks were distributed through centers for social work and local communities, and this was done by members of the DPS in order to ensure safe votes ahead of the parliamentary elections held on October 14.
The price of one set of textbooks is on average around 80 euros. DPS political director Tarzan Milošević told "Vijesta" yesterday that DPS did not buy or distribute textbooks to anyone. He pointed out that in that party they do not know that the textbooks were distributed through local communities, but he is sure that no one did it on behalf of the DPS.
However, when reminded that at the end of August last year, Aleksandra Klikovac from Ponar in Zeta accused DPS activists in that local community of distributing free textbooks exclusively to those families whose members pledge to vote for the ruling party in the parliamentary elections, Milošević said that he he does not know whether any local community distributed textbooks, but did not receive the consent of the DPS. He reminded that free textbooks were distributed only by the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare and centers for social work.
"I don't know if anyone else distributed those textbooks. And if someone shared, it was certainly not with the consent of DPS, nor was DPS involved in it. To be honest, I don't know about those individual situations, but I know for sure that we didn't participate in it, and if someone did it, they did it on their own responsibility," Milošević said.
In the cabinet of the Director of the Institute for Textbooks and Teaching Aids, Nebojša Dragović, it was said that questions related to the deficit in the Institute, which was registered by the SAI in its report from July this year, should be sent to the Minister of Education, Slavoljub Stijepović.
Instead of an answer, we received a notification from the Ministry that the collective vacation is in progress.
Marko Jokić, the sacked president of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Textbooks, did not answer calls and text messages yesterday. "Vijesti" announced yesterday that police officers from the Economic Crime Department entered the Institute for Textbooks and Teaching Aids in order to check the operations of that state institution in the last almost four years, when Jokić, a well-known DPS activist, was at the head of the Institute's Board of Directors. tasked with controlling school principals and teachers.
Jokić was dismissed recently after the SAI established that last year the Institute used non-domestic money, that the activities and information and transactions presented were not in all materially significant aspects in accordance with the applicable regulations, and that the Institute was not managed with due care. The report states that last year the Institute operated with a loss of EUR 669,8 thousand, thanks to the "write-off of outdated textbooks" in the amount of EUR 465.000 and EUR 127.000 higher than projected salary expenses.
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