In just five years (2005-2010), Milka Vujović, treasurer of the Democrat Party of Socialist, spent at least half a million Euros on the purchase of the real estate in Podgorica and Budva. This is evidenced by the data obtained by the MANS Investigative Centre.
In what way Vujović family acquired valuable real estate in Podgorica?
Last year, the president of the Atlas Group, Duško Knežević, accused Vujović of being part of a scheme to illegally finance DPS, adding that for years, in addition to Milo Đukanović, he also gave money for the party to her personally.
Vujović never responded to these allegations, while last year, when asked by reporters about Knežević’s donations to the party, the President of Montenegro and DPS, Milo Đukanović, said that “everything that was done ended up at the appropriate address in the Democratic Party of Socialists, i.e. in the accounting”.
DPS treasurer bought the most expensive real estate in 2009 when she spent € 247.5 thousand for a 166 m2 apartment on George Washington Boulevard in Podgorica, and shortly after another € 31 thousand for two garage spaces in the same building.
Since 2006, Milka Vujović also owns a 67m2 office space in Podgorica, purchased for € 116.000. Vujović bought the property in the very centre of Podgorica behind the Hilton Hotel from Master Inženjering company owned by Vladan Ivanović.
According to MANS’ data, Milka Vujović also owns an apartment in the centre of Budva, which she bought in 2005 from a natural person for only €60.000. That the price was not realistic is evidenced by the evaluation made for the purpose of mortgaging when the apartment was estimated at as much as €165 thousand. In the mortgage statement she made on that occasion, Vujović said that it was her property which she had purchased “from her personal funds”.
We did not receive a response to questions from Vijesti and MANS journalists about the origin of the money used to purchase the aforementioned real estate.
Good day to buy real estate
The five-bedroom apartment of the DPS treasurer in the Normal Company building on George Washington Boulevard is not the only property Vujović family owns at that address. Just one day after Milka Vujović bought her apartment, her son Dragoljub Vujović bought unfinished 180m2 office space and a garage space in the same building.
Data obtained by the MANS Investigative Centre show that the office space cost € 233.5 thousand and the garage space € 15.5 thousand. In addition to real estate in Podgorica, cadastral records also show that Vujović had previously purchased a cottage in Žabljak for around €15 thousand, as stated in the purchase contract.
The latest real estate he bought, Vujović gave to his son, Miško Vujović. The youngest Vujović is employed at the Civil Aviation Agency and he is DPS official. The gift contract obtained by the MANS Investigative Centre states that Dragoljub gave his son a 92 m2 apartment and a garage without any commissions. The apartment of the youngest Vujović is located in the Zetagradnja building on the site of the former Podgorica dairy company, and real estate agency estimates show that the apartment of that surface area with a garage space could not be paid for less than €150.000.
Miško Vujović, as a public official, reported to the Agency for Prevention of Corruption (APC) that he had received real estate from his father as a gift, but not where he got the money for the purchase of it. The report of the youngest Vujović, which includes his parents’ income, shows that his father has no income other than a monthly salary of €1.500.
Dejan Milovac (MANS Investigative Centre)
Tina Popović (ID Vijesti)
Mercedes as a gift as well
In addition to the apartment he received as a gift, in his card from 2016, Miško Vujović also reported a new Mercedes C class vehicle that he had received as a gift, without stating whose gift it is, nor its value. The Ministry of the Interior (MoI) data also show that Miško Vujović owned another Mercedes in the previous period, which was sold in the meantime. The youngest Vujović acquired the vehicle when he was only 20 years old and paid around €17 thousand for it.
Miško Vujović’s property card states that his father also owns a Mercedes E-Class vehicle that was purchased in 2013 with a two-year lease. Data from the invoice obtained by the MANS Investigative Centre show that Dragoljub Vujović paid this vehicle almost €50 thousand.
The youngest Vujović is the Vice President of the Youth Council of DPS. He submitted his assets and income statement for 2018 to the Agency for Prevention of Corruption as a member of the Board of Directors of the Regional Diving Centre for Underwater Demining and Divers Training, as well as a member of the Board of Directors of the Parking Service Podgorica.
Knežević gave money, but DPS did not report it
Responding to questions from journalists regarding Duško Knežević’s allegations that he was giving money to DPS, Milo Đukanović admitted at the beginning of last year that the president of the Atlas Group had provided financial assistance to his party: “Everything that was done ended at the appropriate address in the Democratic Party of Socialists, i.e. in the accounting. It was carefully recorded there, and the reports that state authorities required were submitted to them.”
DPS president, Milo Đukanović
On the other hand, in none of the reports on donations of natural and legal persons that DPS has so far submitted to state authorities did this party report even the Euro that Knežević gave.
