Of the 153 diplomas and higher professional qualifications, which have been checked since January by the Commission in the northernmost Montenegrin Municipality of Pljevlja, a quarter are suspicious.
"Forty diplomas are questionable and we will send those forty diplomas to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP), the Ministry of Public Administration (MJU) and the prosecutor's office. These diplomas are mostly from private faculties, they were obtained after 2006. We do not claim that they are illegal, that they are illegitimate. All those diplomas have been certified, however, the way in which they were obtained is extremely suspicious," said the president of the Municipality of Pljevlja, Dario Vraneš.
Among those who obtained diplomas in a suspicious way are local officials, then some employees of the Municipal Police and the local public broadcaster.
17 of them are employed in the Municipality itself, and 23 in municipal enterprises and institutions.
Vraneš, on whose proposal the Commission was formed, consisting of representatives of the government and the opposition, also explains what specifically causes suspicion.
"We have a situation where people worked for more than decades with high school and in about seven to eight months they finished all four years of college. We have a specific case where a man graduated on December 19, the day of his glory, at the same time, and at the same time time and had a holiday party at the company where he worked," says Vraneš.
And how did you come to those conclusions?
"The commission had insight into all the diplomas, they asked for some additional checks from the faculty about the date of taking the exam, and they simply formed a list based on that," answers the first man from Pljevlja.
The list also includes the diplomas of several employees who did not make them available for inspection, so their credibility will be checked by the police and the prosecutor's office.
"If it is determined that the diplomas are fake, we will file criminal charges and suspend those people," Vraneš points out.
Are you doing this to free up space for your cadres of the new government?
"Absolutely not. There must be an end to the infestation of fake, dubious diplomas, which create low-quality staff and in the end, if this were to continue, we would have a complete collapse of the system and local administrations and the state," concludes Vraneš.
On the other hand, the report of the Commission established that over 100 other employees of the Pljeval Self-Government obtained diplomas from credible universities in Montenegro, the region, and beyond. Among them are distinguished lawyers, economists, and architects, so their profession and knowledge, Vraneš says, will be more appreciated in the future.
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