The Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) requested data on earnings, wages and benefits, travel expenses, per diems and payments on other grounds of the members of the State Election Commission (SEC).
The SDT requested this documentation after the Center for Civic Education (CGO) filed a complaint against an unknown person due to the well-founded suspicion that they committed the criminal offense of abuse of official position.
"Vijesti" previously announced that individual members of the SEC, in addition to monthly payments of 300 euros each, as well as several thousands of euros they receive for each election, received twice as much money for official trips than was prescribed and followed them.
Some members of the SEC received fuel as if they were coming to the sessions from the Russian capital, not from the north of Montenegro, and some did not refuse daily allowances despite the fact that they come to the SEC sessions during working hours, from jobs only a few hundred meters away.
That the SDT requested documentation was also confirmed in the minutes of the recent SEC session.
"The President informed the members that the Center for Civic Education filed a criminal complaint against an unknown person in the State Election Commission. Acting on the application, the Special State Prosecutor's Office requested from the SEC, for the purposes of the procedure, the submission of data on: wages and benefits, travel expenses, per diems and payments on other grounds of the members of the Commission for the period from January 1, 2017 to May 20, 2019... ", reads the statement after the session, published two days ago.
The announcement states that the SDT also requested documentation on the salaries and allowances, travel expenses, per diems and payments on other grounds of the Secretary of the Commission for the period from January 1, 2017 to March 10, 2019.
"As well as fuel costs for the Commission's official vehicles from January 1, 2017 to March 10, 2019. It was concluded that all requested documentation should be submitted to the Special State Prosecutor's Office," it was stated in the press release after the SEC session.
On January 17, the current president of the SEC, Đorđije Vukčević, met the requirements for an old-age pension.
The Administrative Board of the Parliament of Montenegro recently announced a competition for the appointment of a new president.
Candidates can be law graduates with at least ten years of experience in the profession and have the right to vote.
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