Today, NGO MANS submitted to the Agency for Prevention of Corruption (APC) another initiative for launching proceedings against Milo Đukanović, the President of Montenegro, this time for not reporting a property increase in Kočani settlement, the Municipality of Nikšić.
As Vijesti published last week, two out of three Đukanović’s houses in Kočani were not reported to APC, and they do not exist in the records of the Nikšić land registry and the Secretariat for Urban Planning, although they are clearly visible on the air footage. Two of the three facilities are located on the land of the DPS leader, and the third, the largest one, is on a plot that still officially belongs to the father of the President, who passed away in 2010.
Despite the clear existence of built facilities, Đukanović reported to the land registry that he owns three parcels in Nikšić of total area of almost one thousand square meters, and that on the largest of them of 800 m2, he has “two ground floor buildings, many ruins” of 30 and 40 squares, which he acquired by purchasing.
However, it can be clearly seen on the spot that those are not ruins, but fully arranged and functional facilities, which are significantly higher than reported. In addition, a smaller stone house was built on the same plot, which was also not reported to the competent state authorities.
According to the footage from the Google Earth service, there was nothing on these plots until 2016, apart from “many ruins”, surrounded by greenery until then, which implies that Đukanović performed works on expanding and increasing his property in the last three years.
According to the Law on Prevention of Corruption, the former Prime Minister and now the President of Montenegro was obliged to present complete and accurate data on property in Kočani settlement, as well as to report the increase, no later than 30 days after the change occurred. Considering that it was obviously not done, we expect the Montenegrin Agency for Prevention of Corruption to comply with the law for whose enforcement it is in charge, and to initiate the proceedings.
Let us remind that MANS also asked APC at the beginning of March to initiate proceedings against Đukanović because he did not register an increase in his property in the amount of €17 thousand by which he paid the debt from the Atlas Bank card, allegedly provided by his son Blažo Đukanović. Previously, APC refused to deal with the fact that Đukanović did not report a gift from Atlas Bank in the form of a covered debt on a card of almost €17,000, which was paid from the assets of the bank, by explaining that it was not a gift. Because of this behavior of the Agency, MANS filed a criminal complaint against its director, Sreten Radonjić, at the beginning of February under suspicion of abuse of office.
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