Tripković, when asked why there is no decision on the airport concession and whether the pre-qualification tender from 2020, where there are three remaining bidders in the race, will be canceled and a new one announced, said that it took a lot of time, but that there was a reason for it .
"We came to a different and better arrangement with the World Bank, which is an advisor in the process and helps to choose the best bidder. During this period, we had to negotiate the terms with difficulty in order to provide a better situation for the country commercially, in case it does not happen choosing the offer, if we are not satisfied with all the offered conditions," he said.
He says that the contract with the World Bank was confirmed today at the Commission for Economic Affairs.
"It will probably go to the Government on Thursday and immediately the World Bank can mobilize a team of consultants to work on the next phase, which is the collection of bids from three shortlisted bidder", he adds.
When asked if all these steps mean that the concession is the future of ACG, he says that nothing is definitive yet.
"We are waiting to see how the three top-ranked bidders will offer, how they think about everything. After that, there are both options - either to end the process, or to choose one of the offers," said Tripković.
When asked if this "to end" refers to the valid concession act, he adds:
"According to the current concession act and the prescribed conditions - at least 100 million concession fees, at least 200 million investments and 10 percent of income... I think that these minimum conditions are debatable, given the large number of changed circumstances, inflation, and not to mention ... Certainly, it's the commission's decision, it's not up to me," said Tripković, explaining that he is one of the 13 members of the commission.
Dobardžić reiterated that in this case, Drašković did not ask for the approval of the ACG Board of Directors for the payment of more than 100.000 euros.
He says that he asked the board on February 28 for that consent in another case.
Drašković claims that the Statute was not violated, while Tripković believes that it was.
"The fact is that, as far as we have heard, there have been eight payments so far above 100.000 euros where consent was not requested. This means that there was some tacit practice of the board, which was different," said Tripković, saying that no violation of the Statute it's not right.
"In this case, I would say that this violation of the Statute served for revanchism on the part of the board, that by overvoting a decision on dismissal was reached, which was not the topic of discussion at the meeting with the minister," said Tripković.
Dobardžić says that, according to the procedure, for every contract whose value is greater than 10.000 euros, a contract writing commission must be formed, and that this did not happen in this case.
He points out that the bottom line is that the work contract between the supplier and ACG did not have mandatory instructions for payment.
It is also important, he says, the point of the contract which states that during the signing of the contract, the supplier "delivers a 10 percent bank guarantee of a well-executed job".
Drašković, on the other hand, says that the contract was valid.
"What is good practice, what can be improved, why the contract did not contain payment instructions, probably not, we will see," he added.
Dobardžić said that the address, when it comes to responsibility for what happened, according to the regulations and the law, "goes to the operational part."
"It is the executive manager and executive management and all services under his control. The relativization of responsibility, which we see in this case, must not exist. This is a scandal."
Drašković emphasized that no one has access to the money in the bank account in Britain while the procedure is ongoing.
He believes that the money will be returned.
When asked who communicated with those who sent false payment instructions, he said:
"In the correspondence, as far as I can tell from memory, the commercial sector certainly participated, I cannot confirm whether it was also financial, but I think it was, and partly accepted the equipment."
Drašković said that the payment itself should have been processed with more attention.
Drašković, when asked who received the payment instructions at ACG, said that it was the commercial sector, from which they were forwarded to the finance sector, and then entered the payment procedure.
"We know what the email address from which the message came from looks like. It's a conversion of two letters, it's hard to notice. No one who was involved in the communication noticed".
He says that they had previously had one, "I would say real" instruction, just before the payment, adding that the false instructions arrived a few hours or a day earlier, saying that he could not say precisely.
"They were changed, and it really makes sense to say whether the verification failed... Obviously, a sufficient degree of verification was not carried out before the actual payment, that seems to me to be indisputable. But, let's wait, because we have seen several times the circumstances change".
Tripković says that the Ministry is concerned that the communication was carried out through "some oral orders and WhatsApp messages".
"Such a serious company should have detailed procedures for how payments are made, authorization of payments... We blame the board and the executive director for that. If the money is returned - great. If it is not returned, let's see if there was insurance, IT procedures , the security of the airport is in question if there were no procedures. The security of that is the security of communication, and we know what security means for airports."
The consequence of all this, he points out, is that the money for the stairs will probably have to be paid to the supplier soon.
Drašković says that the WhatsApp communication just helped them to verify that "a bad thing happened".
"Communication was by email, WhatsApp was an additional level of security, an additional confirmation of the responsibility of the people inside the airport itself, who used all available methods to get the most up-to-date and high-quality information possible."
Trajković said that the ACG Board of Directors followed the rule by filing a criminal complaint.
Drašković said that all the circumstances should be established. "One should not dramatize, but draw a conclusion from undeniable facts."
Dobardžić added that the ACG experts said that, just like the hacker attack, it was not about intercepted communication either.
"Two email addresses were compromised. The extensions and the extension on the supplier's email address were changed. The entire, to put it in jargon, information was pimped between those fake email addresses and the involved employees and officials at our airport. This lasted for two months."
Drašković clarified that, according to the information from the CKB, 551.000 euros were paid into the account of a British bank, and not of another person.
"The retold wording is that they withdrew the funds in order to protect the clients, that is, us, the Airport of Montenegro. This is a paraphrase of what is written in the CKB report".
Dobardžić says that for five hours the money was in the account "whose owner we don't know".
"It's in the bank, every account is in the bank, yours, mine, but we don't know who it de facto belongs to".
Dobardžić says that "instead of being the first, he was the last in the chain to find out" about what happened.
"I think it's also a serious oversight," he added, saying he was shocked.
He says that they received information from the expert services that it was not a hacker scam, but a "classic fraud".
"It lasted from January 17 to March 20, it is clear that this is not a hacker attack, but that it is a classic fraud, where the system at the airports failed, all operational services that did not work according to the procedures that were adopted, and which, if they had been used, I am sure that this would not have happened," said Dobardžić.
Drašković, answering the question of how it is possible for the Airports of Montenegro to pay half a million euros into the wrong account, said that the communication between the British supplier of airport equipment and ACG was intercepted.
At one time, there was communication with both real and fake representatives, so that at a critical moment, just before payment, we were given false payment instructions. Finance acted on that instruction, the payment order went to our commercial bank. After we received SWIFT confirmation from the bank that our request was processed, we sent it in a WhatsApp communication to the British partners. Then we found out that the instruction was false, and then all efforts were aimed at blocking the funds, so that they would not be embezzled," said Drašković.
According to the latest information, the money is "trapped" in a bank account in Great Britain, that is, it is safe.
"CKB informed us in a written statement that the money was blocked in a British bank," he added.
He says that the first information was that it was the so-called man in the middle attack, that is, a cyber attack.
"Whether it is a cyber attack, time will tell, as further circumstances are determined. There is a clear suspicion that it is a fraudulent act. The document on the basis of which the payment order was made was planted against us, it was realized as it was realized and finally we have the fact that the money is blocked in the British bank account," Drašković said.
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The guests of tonight's show "Reflektor" on TV Vijesti are: Vladan Drašković - replaced executive director of ACG Vladan Drašković, former president of the Board of Directors of ACG Eldin Dobardžić and state secretary in the Ministry of Transport and Maritime Affairs Pavle Tripković.
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