"Cistoća" case: For two years he hid business details

The audit of the financial statements of Podgorica's "Čistoća" for 2020 was completed in June 2021, the report of the company "Eurorev" was submitted to the registry of that company at the end of last week, which means that the details of the company's operations in that year were a secret until a few days ago.

This, among other things, is stated in the supplement to the notice that was delivered to the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) and the Chief Special Prosecutor Vladimir Novović yesterday by Deputy Mayor Danilo Saranović and President of the Board of Directors Milan Vukadinović.

Along with the "Euroreva" report, they also submitted to the SDT the statement of the head of the "Čistoće" accounting department, which she gave yesterday at the request of Vukadinović, in which she stated, among other things, that the report was given to her only on June 22.

"In Statement No. 14974 dated June 26, 6, the head of the accounting department of the company 'Čistoća', Dragana Vasić, stated that she did not have the Report on the Audit of the Financial Statements for 2023, and that the Assistant Executive Director Vojin Katnić gave it to her on the 2020 22. 6. handed over the report in question, which she filed in the archive under number 2023, after which she asked him as assistant to the executive director, and then the secretary of the company, Marina Vujanović, to sign a written act (delivery note) proving that the report was delivered to her that day, which they refused, so she returned the report to the assistant executive director," the supplement to the notification reads.

Yesterday, Katnić told "Vijesta" that, as he is aware that the documentation of "Čistoća" has been handed over to the SDT, he believes that it is not appropriate for him to make statements, including editorial questions.

"Vijesti" asked Katnić about the status of the Report on the Audit of Financial Statements in "Cistoka" for the year 2020 - whether and when it was archived and when it was submitted to the accounting department.

In the notification that Vukadinović and Šaranović submitted to the SDT with part of the evidence, before supplementing it, yesterday morning, they state that there is a reason to suspect that the former executive director of "Čistoća" Andrija Čađenović and the members of the Board of Directors, with the presidents Stanislav Martinović and Miodrag Kostić later, at the head "committed a series of criminal acts that are being prosecuted ex officio, causing enormous material damage to this company, and obtaining financial benefits for themselves and their close associates".

The statement that Vasić gave at the request of Vukadinović is the third in a few days. On June 19, she stated that in the last three years she had a problem because the company was operating at a loss, and that the management did not allow negative business results to be presented, and that, since she did not want to book something that, in her opinion, was not right according to the accounting regulations, requested a document from the director.

The statement further stated that in March 2021, Stanislava Martinović, in cooperation with the auditors, ordered that some orders that they had posted be corrected, and that she and the director had Vojin Katnić sign it for them, that they received a negative opinion for that year , precisely because of those items, but that they never received that report.

The mandate of former executive director Čađenović expired on June 13. He was offered to be transferred to another workplace, but he asked for severance pay, in the amount of 24 net earnings, which, according to his property record, would amount to around 38.000 euros, without taxes and contributions.

The submitters of the notification to the SDT, however, believe that it is an abuse and dispute the annex to the contract on the basis of which Čađenović is requesting severance pay.

Among other things, they state that the annex was signed by the then president of the Board of Directors, Stanislava Martinović, but they claim that there is no Board decision giving consent to the conclusion of that annex.

"In the available archive of the Board of Directors of 'Čistoća', there is no request from an employee to conclude an annex to the employment contract, nor did the Board of Directors at its 33rd session make a decision on concluding an Annex to the employment contract with the executive director, but from the Minutes of that meeting it only follows that the president The Board of Directors said that due to compliance with the provisions of Art. 174, para. 3 of the Law on Business Companies, it is necessary to conclude an annex to the employment contract with the executive director, without presenting the contents of the Annex to them, nor putting that proposal to a vote," the notification to SDT states.

The applicants further allege suspicions of abuses in connection with the payment of donations, sponsorships and assistance to individuals and legal entities. As they stated, after reviewing the financial documentation of "Čistoća", it was established that during the term of office of Čađenović, 383.706 euros were paid out on this basis, and that 185.043 euros were paid out only in the last five months of this year. "Vijesti" wrote about this a few days ago.

They allege suspicions of abuses in connection with the expenses of the national team, "without them being expenses incurred for the purpose of improving the business" of "Čistoće". In the notification to SDT, it was also stated that, as a cost of representation, the cost of purchasing mobile phones for members of the Board of Directors is also recorded in the accounting books, according to the decision of December 9, 12. At that time, six mobile devices were purchased, although the Board of Directors consists of five members, and the decision on procurement, as added in the notice, was made at a time when it was certain that the members of the Board of Directors would be relieved of their duties in a short time.

"The said expense cannot be included in the representation because it, in accordance with the Law on Corporate Income Tax, represents an expenditure incurred for the purpose of business improvement with the condition that its recipient is not a related party, which conditions are not met," the notice states and adds that for phones spent 4.900 euros, and that "Čistoća" still receives invoices from Montenegrin Telecom for installments for those devices and regularly pays them in monthly amounts of 204,15 euros.

And "Vijesti" wrote about that earlier.

"The costs of Andrija Čađenović's national team for 2019 amounted to 9.493,96 euros, for 2020 17.767,43 euros, for 2021 19.318.89 euros, for 2022 9.633,36 euros and for 2023 6.030,68 euros ", the notification reads.

In the documentation that was submitted to the SDT, the notification submitters raise doubts about public procurement procedures, among other things, for semi-underground containers, that the debt to the bidder "Baranka" from Bar as of June 13 is almost 250.000 euros, the purchase of a "cleaner" machine from bidder "Efel travel" from Podgorica, to whom over 127.000 is owed, and the purchase of a car rental from the bidder "Ljetopis Automotive" from Podgorica, according to whom almost 132.000 euros is owed on the day when Čađenović's mandate expired.

Denis Hot submitted a report regarding possible abuses in those public procurements to the Basic State Prosecutor's Office (ODT) in Podgorica at the end of 2020. The ODT yesterday told "Vijesta" that "the case has been submitted to the jurisdiction of the SDT".

Unofficially, both ODT and SDT previously rejected Hot's reports, but in mid-December 2022 he was again invited to make a statement about this, as well as suspicions of other abuses, including fuel consumption, to the Police Directorate, i.e. the Criminal Police Station for Suppression of Economic crime.

Yesterday Hot was appointed acting executive director of "Čistoće". He had previously been fired from that company and was reinstated according to a court ruling, on the penultimate day of Andrija Čađenović's mandate.

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