Milašinović talks one thing, does another

The assistant director of the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption Savo Milašinović announced the day before yesterday that Montenegrin officials are not legally obliged to report loans worth more than 5.000 euros with special property records.

However, at the end of last year, it was he who reported the increase in assets to the loan ratio to the Agency.

"You often see that some public official did not report a loan and did not submit a report of 5.000 even though he took out a loan. He does not have that obligation and the media would have to know the law because the law says an increase in assets of 5.000 euros. Credit is not an increase in assets but a liability. If someone sells property, he informs the Agency. The sale is not an increase in assets, but only the conversion of immovable assets into working assets, while the assets remain the same", Milašinović said the day before yesterday at the session of the ASK Council.

In the past period, "Vijesti" wrote that several public officials did not report the increase in assets by taking loans.

In each of those cases, the journalist sent questions to the Agency, but they did not answer.

The Law on the Prevention of Corruption stipulates that in the event of an increase in property over EUR 5.000, the public official is obliged to submit a special property card to the Agency within 30 days from the date of the change.

An inspection of Milašinović's property record shows that on December 27, he registered a housing loan of 7.000 euros with a separate record. In the given card, there are no other changes related to the increase of assets.

That this is not an isolated example is also shown by the case of the president of the ASK Council, Goranka Vučinić, who only registered a new loan in April last year with a special property certificate. The day before yesterday, the ASK Council stated that the Agency achieved significant results in the first quarter.

"Employees worked responsibly and ASK has indisputable results to respect, concrete and measurable. Preventive anti-corruption mechanisms should be used more effectively to systematically reduce the risk of corruption, especially in areas of special risk, namely health care, education, urban planning, public procurement, privatization..." said Vučinić.