Director of the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption Jelena Perović, which the Special State Prosecutor's Office suspects of abuse of official position, earned more than 40.000 during the last year, managed to save 7.000, and borrowed 2.000 euros at the end of the year.
This is stated in its annual report on assets and income, which was published yesterday on the Agency's website.
In the past months, that institution called officials on several occasions not to submit the annual reports on assets and income at the last minute, but Perović did so a day after the expiration of the legal deadline.
Officials are obliged to submit property records for the previous year to the Agency by March 31 of the current year.
According to data from the Agency's website, the director submitted her report on April 1.
Jelena Perović was arrested last week, and prosecutors suspect her of abusing her official position, with which she damaged the state budget by more than 60.000 euros.
Perović defends himself from freedom. "Vijesti" was told by the High Court at the end of last week that the proposal of the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) to order custody was rejected, but that surveillance measures were imposed - a ban on leaving the apartment, a ban on access to and meetings with certain persons, and confiscation of travel documents.
In her annual report, Perović reported that her basic salary was from 2.120 to 2.600 euros, while she earned 5.341 euros from variables. Last year, Perović collected 5.600 euros from her membership in the working groups of the Agency.
Perović earned 5.600 euros based on her membership in the working bodies of the Agency, which determine the lists of public functions
The Budget Inspection previously, among other things, determined that Perović signed the variables herself, which is not in accordance with the regulations, and the Ministry of Finance submitted that finding to the Special Prosecutor's Office at the end of March.
The inspection then also established that the director of the Agency also worked on holidays last year - May 22 and 23 and July 13 and 14, for which she paid herself daily wages in the amount of 536,78 euros. That amount, however, was not reported as separate income in the publicly available report.
Perović managed to save 7.000 euros, and at the end of 2023 she borrowed 2.000. The report does not specify from whom and in how many installments the money will be returned. She never consented to the inspection of bank accounts.
SDT spokesman Vukas Radonjic previously announced that prosecutors accuse Perović of abusing her official position and illegally obtaining material benefits for herself and others in the amount of more than 60.000 euros in the period from August 2020 to February 2024.
He emphasized that the prosecutors in a separate criminal case are determining whether she also misused the official car.
"Certainly, in the last investigation procedure initiated against the suspect, the official documentation of the ASK, which the police temporarily confiscated during the search of the Agency's headquarters, but which the Agency submitted at the request of the SDT, will also be valued, in order to establish the grounds for suspicion as to whether the the extended criminal offense also includes other illegal actions of the suspect, apart from those for which the proceedings were initiated", said Radonjić.
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