The Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (ASK) found that the Minister of Health, Jelena Borovinić-Bojović, violated the Law on the Prevention of Corruption because she did not declare all of her family's income and assets.
The Agency told "Vijesta" that on March 1, a "misdemeanor warrant was issued, which fined Borovinić-Bojović a fine of 500 euros" for not providing accurate and complete data in the report on income and assets upon assuming public office.
The law stipulates that a public official is obliged to submit a property certificate within 30 days of appointment.
Borovinić-Bojović was elected as a member of the Government on December 4, and at the end of the same month she submitted her first property certificate.
The same Law stipulates that reported income and assets must be accurate and complete. A fine of 500 to 2.000 euros is prescribed for violating the law.
Borovinić-Bojović reported in the first report that, in addition to the ministerial salary of 1.441 euros, she also received 280 euros as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Montenegro.
She also reported that her husband Dragan Bojović (Democratic Front) was elected as a deputy in the Parliament of Montenegro after the parliamentary elections, where, in addition to the deputy's salary of less than 1.440 euros, he also had variables that ranged from about 28 to more than 350 euros.
At the same time, Bojović is a councilor in the Danilovgrad Municipal Assembly, where he receives 110 euros each month.
When it comes to property, the minister reported in that document that she owns 745 square meters of pasture land and a car from 2012, and the deputy owns a fifth of the house of 80 square meters he inherited and a car from 2005 that he acquired by purchase.
The minister reported that since the middle of 2008, she has been repaying about 71.450 euros of consumer loans in installments of 330 euros.
However, the Agency told "Vijesta" that an administrative proceeding was initiated against her on June 18, and a request to initiate a misdemeanor proceeding was filed yesterday, due to failure to submit accurate and complete data in the regular annual property register. Also, yesterday, a request was initiated to initiate misdemeanor proceedings against the DF MP due to failure to provide accurate and complete data in his regular annual record.
In relation to the first, her regular annual property record mentions shares in the Port of Bar, Izbor Bar and Port of Adria, a smaller amount of consumer credit (40.000 euros), and it is stated that her husband also inherited a fifth of the yard of 500, about 390 meters square fields and over 1.700 square meters of rocky areas.
The MP said at the session of the Parliamentary Anti-corruption Committee on Wednesday that he and his wife are targets of the Agency because of his criticism of her work, stating that the minister has already been punished once, and that new proceedings are being conducted against them. The Agency said they were just doing their job.
"In this room there are at least three people who have been prosecuted and who have been punished by the Agency", said Council President Momčilo Radulović at the Committee session.
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