The Agency for the Prevention of Corruption will soon make decisions regarding the suspicions that they are the president of the state Milo Djukanovic and the Government Dritan Abazovic violated the Law on Prevention of Corruption when traveling to the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
In the case of Đukanović, the Agency is also examining his assets - from real estate to watches to companies mentioned in the "Panama Papers".
The Agency told "Vijesta" that these procedures are "in the final stage".
"After their completion, the decisions made will be publicly available," states the official response of the institution headed by him Jelena Perović.
"Vijesti" has unofficially learned that decisions in these cases should be made in the next two weeks.
The Parliamentary Anti-corruption Committee was established a year ago, at the suggestion of a representative of the Democratic Front Dragan Bojović, made a decision to hold a control hearing on the actions of the Agency's management based on the rulings of the Administrative Court, which mainly concern the president of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS).
Among them are Đukanović's property in the Nikšić village of Kočani, the "Panama Papers" affair and companies abroad, trips around the world, and a collection of watches.
One of the cases refers to his trip to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 2010, the costs of which were almost 30.000 euros, according to the writing, were borne by the accused businessman Dusko Knezevic.
The agency decides again for his trip in the same year to St. Trope in the company of the then minister, and the current deputy of the DPS Branimir Gvozdenović, and which, according to the documentation, Knežević paid at least 22.700 euros.
The Administrative Court overturned the previous decisions of the Agency, because the then management refused to consider the initiatives of the Network for Firms of the Non-Governmental Sector (MANS) in these two cases, justifying that the trips took place before that institution started working.
The case of failure to declare a debt of 17.000 euros in Knežević's Atlas bank in his property record also applies to the president. Đukanović claimed that he did not know about the debt, but he later settled it with the help of his son Blaž Đukanović.
The agency previously refused to deal with the fact that Đukanović did not report the debt to the bank, explaining that it was not a gift.
"Vijesti" announced in March 2019 that all the houses on the family estate of the president in Kočani were not registered. The Agency then said that "checking the data did not reveal any discrepancies with the data kept in the official records of other state bodies". The Administrative Court ordered the Agency to make new, legal decisions in this case.
In November, the Agency's management announced at the session of the Agency's Council that the president had submitted statements in several cases at that time.
The case concerning the president of the URA Civic Movement refers to his trip to the United Arab Emirates last year.
He reported to the Agency that he received eight gifts last year, but he did not mention a trip to the UAE, where, among other duties, he followed the prestigious Formula 1 race.
He stayed in the Emirates at the invitation of the director of the corporation that owns "Porto Montenegro" from Tivat, and, as the then Deputy Prime Minister and now the Prime Minister in a technical mandate claimed at the time, he did not spend a single cent of state money for that trip. Abazović then said that it was a private road that he used for business purposes. "And those business purposes are not for the public at the moment, because one segment of it relates to the fight against corruption," said Abazović.
In April, MANS submitted to the Agency requests for the initiation of proceedings against Abazović and his adviser at the time, who is now the Minister of the Interior. Filip Adžić for not refusing a gift in the form of paid travel and accommodation expenses in Dubai and Abu Dhabi (UAE).
As announced by MANS, in accordance with the Law on Prevention of Corruption, "public officials are prohibited from receiving gifts beyond the protocol, and occasional gifts of up to 50 euros, especially gifts related to the performance of public functions".
"According to the provisions of the cited law, Abazović and Adžić had to refuse the gift in the form of paid travel and accommodation expenses, and to make a written report about it, which they would then submit to the authority in which they perform their public function, in this case the Government, that is, the General Secretariat of the Government". it is written in the announcement of MANS.
A fine of 500 to 2.000 euros is prescribed for violation of the Law on Prevention of Corruption.
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