Public bailiffs hid tens of thousands of income?

Public executors have been obliged to submit property records to the Agency since March, when the amended Law on Public Executors entered into force, which also introduced this duty.
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Did the executors truthfully declare the property?, Photo: Shutterstock
Did the executors truthfully declare the property?, Photo: Shutterstock
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The Center for Monitoring and Research (CEMI) reported to the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption a number of public executors, among other things, because of the suspicion that they did not report all their income, and that the difference between the data in the property reports and the information from the Tax Administration for individual and several tens of thousands of euros .

In the report of that organization, addressed to the director of the Agency, Sreten Radonjić, it is stated that out of 31 public executors, three did not submit reports on assets and income at all, although they were supposed to do so by the end of April this year.

Public executors have been obliged to submit property records to the Agency since March, when the amended Law on Public Executors entered into force, which also introduced this duty.

Also, Article 23 of the Law on Prevention of Corruption stipulates that a public official must fulfill this obligation within 30 days from the day of assuming office, or in this case, within the same period from the date of entry into force of the amendments to the Law on Public Executors.

According to the application, which is signed by the executive director of CEMI, Ana Nenezić, those who did not submit the card to the Agency at all are Aleksandar Bošković, Vladimir Vujotić and Armin Camić.

Vujotic's record is in the Agency's register.

"Of the 28 public executors who submitted reports, nine did not report income from public office. They are: Ivana Jelušić, Ana Nikić, Veselin Šćepanović, Mato Jovićević, Jasminka Bajović, Darko Rajković, Maja Ajković, Biljana Nikčević and Radovan Koprivica, who did not report income from performing public functions", says the application of the executive director of CEMI.

Ana Nenezic
Ana Nenezic(Photo: PR Center)

Nenezić requests that the Agency verify the data from the submitted reports, by comparing that data with the collected data on the property and income of the public official from the authorities and legal entities that dispose of that data.

It is clear that in this particular case the Agency did not fulfill its legal obligation, i.e. that it did not check whether public executors submitted reports on income and assets within the legally prescribed period, as well as the content of those reports," Nenezić's application states.

He also points out that most of the first records submitted by public enforcement officers did not contain information on income from performing public enforcement activities, and most of them reported income from performing that work in extraordinary records related to the increase of assets worth over 5.000 euros.

"Members of the bodies of the Chamber of Public Executors, with the exception of the president of the Chamber, did not properly report the income they receive based on compensation for work in the bodies of the Chamber, although this obligation is prescribed by the Law on Prevention of Corruption," notes Nenezić. The president of the Chamber is Vidak Latković.

Only the president of the Chamber, Vidak Latković, properly reported the income they receive based on fees for work in their bodies, CEMI stated.

Along with the application, Nenezić submitted a table of public executors, on the basis of which in some cases it can be seen that, in the property register, they reported that they earned almost 19.000 from that activity for the year, while, according to the data of the Tax Administration, their annual turnover was more than 44.500 euros.

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