The Agency for Prevention of Corruption found that the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management, Aleksandar Stijović, violated the Law on Prevention of Corruption.
In his case, the Agency found that he did not report all income in the property register, that is, 200 euros based on the contract concluded with the Directorate for Statistics.
A public official is obliged to declare all income and assets, otherwise he faces a fine of up to 2.000 euros.
Stijović said that before being appointed to the post of minister, he worked as a professional and scientific consultant and expert on national and international projects, and that he signed a contract with the Administration in June last year for the need to produce data from the forestry sector. He explained that the amount of 200 euros represented the payment of the last contracted tranche of the contract realized in December 2020. Stijović added that he had no intention of concealing any income.
The agency also announced the decision that the vice-president of the Assembly Branka Bošnjak violated the law because she declared her income 204 euros less.
The Bosniak said that she filled out the card based on the information she received from the University of Montenegro and that she had no intention of concealing anything.
Her colleague, MP Maksim Vučinić, violated the law because he did not report a loan of 1.373 euros, according to the Agency's decision.
Vučinić said that his bank offers the possibility of purchasing in installments via a payment card, but that he was not informed that using the limit on that card can be interpreted as taking out a loan in the amount of that limit.
In the case of MP Tamara Vujović, the Agency found that she did not report accurate and complete data because she reported less than 8.488 euros on an annual basis, less than 23.741 euros in the name of her husband, a car, a motorcycle, stocks and a loan of 8.000 euros.
Vujović said, among other things, that she registered the vehicle for a friend from Russia, that she thought she should not have registered the motorcycle because it is 12 years old, that there was a mistake regarding her income, and that she forgot to register her husband's severance pay, and that she did not know about his credit.
For MP Suada Zoronjić, it was determined that she violated the Law on Prevention of Corruption because she did not report that her husband is the owner of "ND Dent" as well as the car "Volkswagen".
Zoronjić said that she did not know that she had to declare her husband's ownership share, and that the car has been in the village for years and that it was given as a gift in September, after which she will do everything necessary with the MUP.
In the case of MP Miodrag Vuković, the Agency found that he violated the Law because he did not report a fee of 225 euros from the Faculty of Management in Herceg Novi, real estate and leasing of 10.080 euros.
Vuković said that the allegations were true, but that he had no intention of concealing anything.
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