The Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (ASK) has made another decision, trusting "the word" of a public official, and not the official data it owns.
This is what the Network for the Affirmation of the Non-Governmental Sector (MANS) told "Vijesta" yesterday, commenting on the fact that the ASK, almost three years after their initiative and two rulings by the Administrative Court, decided that a former high-ranking police official Enis Baković did not violate the Law on Prevention of Corruption. MANS announced yesterday that they will file a complaint with the Administrative Court against the decision of ASK.
According to that decision, Baković was able to finance the purchase of a 58 square meter cottage and a 267 square meter plot of land in Žabljak.
"The agency... at the request of MANS, and acting ex officio, initiated the procedure... The former public official (name in the document is blacked out) stated that MANS' allegations are unfounded, because he bought the cottage... with a plot of land of 267 square meters... In 2015, for 15.000 euros, as he had a salary of 1.100 euros at that time, his father gave him 5.000 euros, while the remaining 5.000 were given to him by his two sisters in the amount of 2.500 euros. He added that the money given to him by his sisters and father was earned in 2015," the decision states. Among other things, they stated that the ASK gave full faith to the detailed information on the basis of the acquisition of the cottage, which was submitted by Baković, appreciating it as clear and true.
MANS pointed out yesterday that in that decision the ASK fully believed what it received as testimony from Enis Baković, without additional verification of the income that this former police official used to justify the purchase of real estate in Žabljak.
"Baković stated that he received 10 euros from his family for the purchase of real estate, and that this is income that was generated during 2025. Enisa Baković received half of that sum (5.000 euros) from his father, Šućko Baković, also a public official (former ombudsman), while he received the other half from his sisters (2.500 euros each). In the sales contract, it is stated that Enis Baković bought the mentioned real estate in Žabljak in September 2015", they reminded from MANS.
They claim that the Baković family, according to the data from Sućko Baković's property record for the mentioned year 2015, had to give up almost half of the earnings of the entire household in order to be able to give Enis Baković 10.000 for the purchase of a summer house in September of that year.
"This type of renunciation in favor of the younger Baković was very likely the greatest burden for his sisters, who at that moment were earning 480 and 610 euros per month. During that period, the Baković family did not report the acquisition of any other income. From what is available from the decision of the KAS, it is obvious that that institution did not deal in detail with the credibility of Baković's testimony, nor cast doubt on the fact that the family's 'donations' were just below the legal limit, which ensured that they did not have to report them. , MANS pointed out.
This non-governmental organization claims that this is not the first case that Baković uses his family's "help" to explain the acquisition of property that he could not finance from officially reported income.
"At the end of 2019, Baković, after writing in the media, admitted that he owns a Rolex watch, a Submariner Date model, but that he bought it from a relative for an amount less than 5000 euros, and therefore did not consider himself obligated to report to ASK. In this case too, there was no adequate reaction from KAS", concluded MANS.
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