The family of a long-time high state official Bozidar Vuksanović in two years, she acquired several properties worth more than a quarter of a million euros, and this is money that was not reported in the official reports on income and assets.
This is shown by the documentation obtained by the Research Center of the Network for the Affirmation of the Non-Governmental Sector (MANS).
Although in 2008 Vuksanović officially claimed that his children were not employed, his son Bojan he then bought a 156 square meter apartment and a garage in the "Normal Company" building, in the elite part of Podgorica, at the intersection of the boulevards of St. Peter Cetinjski and George Washington.
A little later in the same year, Božidar Vuksanović also buys a 200-square-meter plot in Žabljak, but he did not report it to the competent Commission for the Prevention of Conflict of Interest.
Vuksanović replied yesterday that he did not want to comment on the documents of the MANS Research Center and that what he reported to the competent authorities was correct.
He briefly said that his son's trade was "a matter of inheritance".
According to data from the website of the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption, the Vuksanovićs did not declare their inheritance.
In the previous period, thanks to his membership in the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), he was appointed to numerous positions, including the position of director of the Police Administration, the Customs Administration, the Administration for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions...
Mlađi Vuksanović paid 171.600 euros for the apartment
The documentation obtained by the MANS Research Center shows that in early 2008, Bojan Vuksanović bought a 156-square-meter apartment and a garage in a building at the intersection of St. Peter Cetinjski and George Washington boulevards from the company "Normal Company", for which he paid the amount of 171.600 euros. At the end of the same year, Božidar Vuksanović bought a 200 square meter plot of land in Žabljak and paid 22.000 euros for it.
The very next year (2009), the younger Vuksanović concluded another purchase agreement with the same construction company, this time for business premises at the Old Airport, with an area of 129 square meters. The contract states that it is a real estate in the so-called "rough construction works", as well as that the younger Vuksanović had already paid the contracted amount of 78.600 euros.
He registered the plot when he built the cottage
None of these transactions were reported to the competent Commission for the Prevention of Conflict of Interest at the time, although there was a legal obligation to do so.
It is not known from which funds the purchase of real estate worth over 270.000 euros was financed, because the Vuksanovićs had no reported savings or inheritance during that period, nor did they report the existence of loans that would serve this purpose.
The former police chief reported the purchase of real estate in Žabljak to the Commission only in 2011, when he also registered a cottage on the plot, the value of which is currently unknown. On the other hand, the purchase of an apartment and office space was never reported to the competent authorities, and since 2011, Vuksanović has stopped reporting his older son as a member of the household.
Bojan Vuksanović, as the owner of the real estate he bought in the period from 2008 to the end of 2009, was registered in 2012, after he left his father's household.
Rented office space to the post office
In the period from 2014 to 2021, the company "Pošta Crne Gore" concluded several contracts on the rental of office space that Bojan Vuksanović bought in the Stari aerodrome neighborhood in Podgorica. The documentation on individual payments obtained by the MANS Research Center thanks to the Law on Free Access to Information shows that the Post paid the younger Vuksanović a total of nearly 74 thousand euros based on the lease of office space, and that the monthly rent ranged from approx. 600 to 1000 euros.
One of the contracts shows that after purchasing the office space in the so-called "gray phase" from the company "Normal Company", he completed all the craft work, and that the office space was fully functional before the "Post of Montenegro" was issued.
All Vuksanović's functions
From 2003 to 2011, Vuksanović was a deputy of the then ruling DPS.
In the period from 2008 to 2010, when transactions were carried out that he did not report to the competent authorities, Božidar Vuksanović was a member of the Parliament of Montenegro. In addition to that position, Vuksanović also held the position of director of the Institute for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions (ZIKS), but also a member of the Board of Directors of the state company "Post of Montenegro".
Vuksanović was appointed to the position of director of the Customs Administration in mid-2009, and held that position until 2011, when he was appointed acting director of the Police Administration.
MANS asked to check children's property after leaving the household
MANS, as part of the Working Group of the previous convocation of the Parliament of Montenegro, which worked on amendments to the Law on Prevention of Corruption, proposed in the first half of this year that public officials declare property and income for spouses and children, regardless of whether they are members of the household or not.
Currently, the Law on Prevention of Corruption stipulates that officials report assets and income to KAS only for household members, that is, most often spouses and children who live with them in the community. Such a provision enables the children of public officials to acquire property most often after leaving the household, or rather to buy real estate or a vehicle in the same year when the official stops registering them. In practice, transactions of this type went unnoticed by KAS, but were also hidden from the public.
Due to all of the above, in the draft amendments to the Law on the Prevention of Corruption, which is still awaiting the opinion of the European Commission and the holding of a public hearing, the proposal of MANS was included to amend the provision on household members from the current law in such a way that in the future officials report the income and property of the spouse and children, regardless of whether they live with them in the community or not. Such a solution, if adopted, will enable more specific control of KAS and reduce the scope for manipulations in the form of hiding (the origin of) assets.
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