A group of employees of Radio and Television of Montenegro (RTCG) have filed a complaint with the Protector of Property and Legal Interests of Montenegro, stating that they propose to conduct a procedure to determine the amount that Boris Raonić, the repeatedly illegally elected Director General of RTCG, must return to the state of Montenegro, from whose budget RTCG is financed.
"We assume that you can process this by requesting that the contracts that the illegally elected RTCG Director General Boris Raonić concluded with the RTCG Council be declared null and void," states the complaint filed by Srđan Čović, Časlav Vujotić, Tatjana Šuković, Mladen Vukčević, Danijela Popović and Slaven Knezović, and submitted to the media by Vujotić.
The complaint states that "the notorious fact, established by final judgments of the Higher Court, is that Boris Raonić was illegally elected as CEO twice, on August 06, 2021 and June 1, 2023, which means that he received his salary illegally at least until September 1, 2024". He was then elected a third time, most likely illegally, but the court process is ongoing.
"This means that, based on an illegal decision by the RTCG Council, Raonić signed a contract that allowed him to regularly receive, in addition to his salary, determined by the coefficient of 20,75, an additional three average salaries at RTCG, according to the rules and conditions that the DRI also questioned and asked RTCG to define and change. Namely, it is completely unknown what extraordinary effects are, how the Council processed and assessed them, in order to award Raonić three times the average salary, as an additional to his regular income. Thus, he had the highest salary in the country for a long time, despite the fact that the RTCG General's job description is to ensure that RTCG operates according to the law. In addition to illegal employment, Raonić continuously made a series of legally questionable decisions that were annulled in court," the complaint states.
The document states that Raonic received at least 36 thousand euros gross over the course of 80 months, which were not paid to him in accordance with the law.
"We note that this amount represents an amount above his salary determined by the coefficient and collective agreement, which applies to everyone except his management team, which operates outside the provisions of the Law on Salaries in the Public Sector," the application states.
The report also states that the aforementioned facts are specifically addressed by the findings of the State Audit Office: Number: 02-035/25-396/3 Podgorica, 03.02.2025. REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS given in the report on the audit of the Annual Financial Report of Radio Television of Montenegro for 2021, which specifically emphasizes: "The Regulation on the part of the salary based on the results achieved in the work of RTCG does not specify who evaluates, proposes and approves the increase in salary based on the results achieved in the work of the General Director, the Director of Radio Montenegro, the Director of Television of Montenegro and the Director of the Internet Publication (Online Media), so the status of the implementation of this recommendation remains unchanged."
"In addition, the RTCG Employees' Union, in its addresses arising from misunderstandings, disagreements, but also manipulations of information during negotiations on the new Collective Agreement, also cited the address of the Ministry of Finance that best describes the uncontrolled financial flows in RTCG: 'From the submitted document, we did not receive an explanation on what basis the General Director and Assistant General Directors receive a supplement under the employment contract, i.e. whether it is a supplement to the basic salary or a variable part of the salary. Bearing in mind the fact that in these cases, the amount of the supplement is higher than the basic salary, we point out that such a method of determining salary renders meaningless the institute of salary and coefficients established by the Collective Agreement, which also leads to a violation of the principle of transparency.' All the necessary credible data for making a decision can be found in the available documents - court decisions, DRI reports, ASK reports on Raonic's income as a public official, and on the RTCG portal - where Raonic's disputed contracts are located," the application of the RTCG workers' group states.
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