Former President of the Council of the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption, Momčilo Radulović, violated regulations by failing to report accurate and complete data related to his wife's income.
This was established by the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (ASK).
"It is determined that Momčilo Radulović, as a public official, violated Article 25, paragraph 2 of the Law on the Prevention of Corruption because in the report on income and assets for 2021, he did not report accurate and complete data relating to the income of his wife as a member of the public official's joint household," the ASK decision states.
The agency acted upon a report from the Network for the Affirmation of the Non-Governmental Sector (MANS), and after being ordered to do so by the Administrative Court in December last year.
Previously, former ASK director Jelena Perović rejected MANS' initiative, after which the NGO appealed to the Administrative Court.
"... Bearing in mind that Article 26, paragraph 1, item 3 of the Law stipulates that the Report must, among other things, contain data on the assets and income of both the public official and the members of the joint household, in the specific case the wife, and that the income of the spouse of the public official does not fall under the data referred to in Article 29 of the Law, which are not published, the Agency has determined that the appointee was obliged to provide accurate and complete data in the Report on Income and Assets for 2021 No. 02-02-4-3224 of 24.03.2022, which the appointee did not do, so the Agency concludes that in this case Article 25, paragraph 2 of the Law on the Prevention of Corruption was violated, i.e. the obligation was prescribed by Article 23, paragraph 2 of the previous Law on the Prevention of Corruption," the ASK decision states.
During the investigation, Radulović claimed that the allegations in the report were unfounded, that the report was full of incomplete information and "falsehoods that lead to the abuse of state institutions by the applicant, which led to the initiation of this procedure."
"Regarding his wife's data, he said that he submitted it in the only possible legal form, respecting international treaties that our country has ratified and which are binding, and which claims the Agency could not accept because they are contrary to international standards and positive legal regulations, and for that reason they could not be substantiated by material legal evidence that would support the claims of the public official," the Agency's decision states.
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