The Agency for the Prevention of Corruption has established that he is the current president of the Budva Municipal Assembly, and the former head of the office of the President of the Municipality Nikola Jovanovic violated the Law on Prevention of Corruption.
The law stipulates the obligation of a public official to declare all income and assets.
For those who do not do this, a fine of 500 to 2.000 euros is prescribed.
In the decision signed by the Director of the Agency Jelena Perović it is stated that Jovanović did not report over 10.000 euros in the regular annual report on income and assets for 2020.
On that occasion, Jovanović "declared a lower annual income in the amount of 3.361 euros, he did not report income in the name of other benefits from the Municipality of Budva in the amount of 6.649 euros, a winter holiday from December 2020 in the amount of 200 euros and an Audi 80 motor vehicle '", the decision states.
In June, the agency sent an invitation to Jovanović for an oral hearing, and in July, the results of the examination procedure, which he duly received, but to which he did not declare.
The Network for the Affirmation of the Non-Governmental Sector (MANS) announced last week that in the middle of last year, Jovanović became the owner of a three-room apartment with an area of 109 square meters for which, according to the contract, he paid 85.350 euros, i.e. 783 euros per square meter, while the average price of an apartment in the Lazi neighborhood ranging from 1.500 to 2.500 euros per square meter. The apartment is valued at 143.000 euros.
Reacting to MANS, Jovanović said that with the purchase "I did not endanger the public interest or subordinate the general to the private, and I also did not damage the municipal or state budget because it is a legal and legally permitted business."
Public officials are obliged to submit to the Agency regular annual property records for the previous year by the end of March.
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