MANS filed a request to the Agency for Prevention of Corruption (APC) to initiate proceedings against Ivan Brajović, the President of the Parliament of Montenegro, because in his 2014 revenue and property report he hid the fact that €150,000 came from the land sale.
Namely, according to data from the Real Estate Directorate, Ivan Brajović is no longer the owner of around 4.5 thousand square meters of land in Danilovgrad, while in the contract between him and the company “Free Energy” from Podgorica it is stated that this plot was sold for a total of €150 thousand.
Insight into the property card for 2014 shows that Ivan Brajović no longer owns the parcel, but also that he did not report the income from its sale. Thus, Brajović unequivocally breached the legal obligation to report an increase in assets in the amount of more than €5 thousand, within 30 days from the occurrence of the change.
In addition, the provision of the Article 23 paragraph 2 of the Law on Prevention of Corruption stipulates that a public official shall be obliged to provide accurate and complete data in the report, which Brajović evidently did not do.
Not a single property report submitted by Brajović since 2014 to date has contained information on the income that he had acquired through the sale of the property.
APC has previously refused to decide in the initiatives that we have filed against Milo Đukanović and Branimir Gvozdenović because they had not reported a gift trip to Dubai at the expense of the Atlas Group’s president, Duško Knežević, justifying it by stating that for possible violations of the law that occurred before 2016, when the Agency was established – they are not competent.
We once again remind and warn, first of all, APC Director Sreten Radonjić, that the Law on Anti-Corruption clearly defines that his institution is the legal successor of the previous Commission for Prevention of Conflict of Interest, and that on January 1, 2016, when it began its work, it simultaneously took over the work, as well as the rights and obligations, documentation, registers and records of the former Commission, so it is obliged to act upon this request and make a meritory decision.
MANS
