During the pre-election campaign, in March and April 2023, the Commission for assessing the damage caused by natural disasters of the Government of Montenegro paid out over 800,000 Euros from the budget on the basis of fees, which is eight times more than in the same period last year.
The number of individual payments on this basis is as much as 20 times higher than in the same period of the previous year. Namely, there were 343 payments from the budget in March, and 168 in April, while there were 17 payments in March last year, and only 8 in April.
The money was mostly paid into bank accounts, mostly in Prva Banka, thus, it is not possible to conclude from the data on payments who the final recipient was, except in the case of a few payments to legal entities, specifically to religious communities.
The allocation of funds for natural disasters is decided by a commission headed by Zoran Miljanić, Minister without Portfolio, in charge of the fight against corruption.
The increase in these payments occurred at the end of last year, after the amendment of Democratic Montenegro banned all other types of payments to natural persons from the budget reserve.
For a long time, MANS has been pointing out the abuse of funds from the budget reserve in the pre-election period, but this example as well confirms that the new government is taking over old bad practices.
You can find more information on the state budget spending on our website www.cistakampanja.me , at this link you can see data on fee payments for natural disasters from the budget reserve.
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