Former Acting Director General of the Directorate for the Accession of Montenegro to the European Union and the Acquis Jovana Dragović She violated the law by failing to submit a report on her income and assets to the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption within 30 days of leaving public office.
According to the ASK opinion of September 30, Dragović, who is the president of the Association of Women of the ruling Europe Now Movement (PES), received a request to comment in the proceedings before that institution at the end of July, but did not comment.
"After assessing the evidence presented, namely the Official Gazette of Montenegro dated 26. 7. 2024, the regular annual report on income and assets of Jovana Dragović dated 30. 4. 2025 and the records of the ASK, both individually and in their interconnection, the Agency determined that Jovana Dragović violated Article 25, paragraph 4 of the Law on the Prevention of Corruption, by failing to inform the Agency and submit a report on income and assets within 30 days of the date of termination of public office," the opinion dated 30 September states.
ASK, they claim, appreciated the fact that Dragović submitted a regular annual report dated 30. 4. 2025, in which she stated that her function had ceased on 17. 7. 2024, but found that they had no influence on a different decision-making, because Article 25, paragraph 4 of the Law on the Prevention of Corruption stipulates that in the event of the termination of a public function, a public official is obliged to notify the Agency of this within 30 days from the date of termination of the function and submit a Report, which was not done.
ASK previously announced that the former official and her husband, a PES MP, Darko Dragovic, repeatedly fined for violating the Law on the Prevention of Corruption.
According to "Vijesti" from January this year, Dragović was fined twice for failing to declare his assets and income.
"Vijesti" reported a year ago that Dragović was the owner of a 57-square-meter apartment in Bečići that was once searched in the investigation against the late leader of the Škalja clan. Jovan VukotićAccording to data from the Real Estate Administration, the property was registered to him until the beginning of November last year, and then became the property of the company "MB stars" from Danilovgrad, whose owner is ML who was found guilty of tax evasion in 2021 and sentenced to a suspended sentence and a fine of 5.000 euros with the obligation to pay damages to the state.
According to the Real Estate Administration, Dragović is still registered with a 50-square-meter property in the Kotor settlement of Škaljari, which was subject to a ban on alienation and encumbrance until almost the end of last year, based on a decision of the Podgorica Higher Court from 2018. The real estate list states that the property is owned by the PES MP and that he acquired it by purchase. That property was also registered with Dragović yesterday, but next to it was a "record of the existence of a debt in the amount of 70.000 euros in favor of 'MB stars' doo" from Danilovgrad.
In an earlier reaction to the "Vijesti" article that presented facts about his real estate, Dragović announced that he had returned both apartments to the Danilovgrad resident. M. L., with whom he had previously had an agreement to exchange the inherited property in Danilovgrad for residential units on the coast.
However, he reported the apartment to the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption at the end of March, stating that he was the sole owner and that he acquired it by purchase.
Jovanović is also outside the law
ASK also determined that the mayor of Budva Nikola Jovanovic, as the president of the office of the mayor of that municipality, violated the law because during 2022, he received compensation from more than one working body in the same months.
According to ASK, he earned 8.210, including 2.000 from membership in the Commission for the Development of a Plan for Protection and Rescue from Fires and Natural Disasters, 3.300 from membership in the Commission for Normative Affairs, 1.550 from the Commission for the Distribution of Funds to Sports Organizations, 60 euros from the Commission for the Verification of Personnel, 900 from the Commission for the Distribution of Funds for Women's Entrepreneurship, and 400 from the Commission for the Development of Agriculture. In doing so, ASK claims, he violated legal provisions relating to restrictions on the exercise of public functions.
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