{"id":8240,"date":"2020-07-21T21:20:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T19:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mans.co.me\/en\/?p=8240"},"modified":"2020-07-31T23:32:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T21:32:59","slug":"employees-of-cistoca-donated-e18000-for-dps-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mans.co.me\/en\/?p=8240","title":{"rendered":"Employees of “\u010cisto\u0107a” donated \u20ac18,000 for DPS campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Over \u20ac 18,000 were paid by 23 employees of the Public Utility Company “\u010cisto\u0107a” from Podgorica, in order to help the election campaign of the ruling Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) in the eve of the last parliamentary elections in 2016.<\/p>\n

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The documentation obtained by the MANS Investigative Centre raises additional suspicions about the existence of an organized scheme for inserting cash through fictitious donations from individuals. Through donations from individuals, DPS has collected close to \u20ac 700,000 for the last parliamentary elections alone.<\/p>\n

The scheme discovered by MANS involved the payment of cash in only one branch of the same bank, on the same day and in almost identical amounts. According to DPS\u2019 account statement, payments of 21 employees of Podgorica’s “\u010cisto\u0107a” were made on August 26, 2016, in a branch of the Societe Generale bank (now Podgori\u010dka banka), while only two employees donated money a few days later. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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DPS\u2019 account statement<\/p><\/div>\n

Although this bank has as many as seven branches, according to available data, only one was used to pay cash to DPS\u2019 account, exactly the one where the bank’s management is located – in Moskovska Street.<\/p>\n

Workers of “\u010cisto\u0107a” paid “donations” to the ruling DPS in the amounts between 300 to 1000 Euros, while the average salary in that public utility company during 2016 election was 516 Euros.<\/p>\n

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DPS\u2019 account statement<\/p><\/div>\n

“\u010cisto\u0107a” is headed by Andrija \u010ca\u0111enovi\u0107, a member of the Main Board of DPS, who recently donated DPS campaign for the postponed elections in Tivat. The president of the Board of Directors of that company is Stanislava Beba Martinovi\u0107 who, as the head of the Tax Administration of the Regional unit Podgorica, is a suspect in the tax evasion scandals “Klap” and “Vardar”, while one of the board members is Isen Ga\u0161i, also from DPS.<\/p>\n

Lazar Grdini\u0107<\/strong><\/p>\n

MANS Investigative Centre<\/p>\n

Donations for \u0110ukanovi\u0107\u2019s 2018 campaign as well<\/strong><\/p>\n

Employees of “\u010cisto\u0107a” gave money to the party for the campaign for presidential and local elections in 2018. Thus, six employees of \u010cisto\u0107a, former director Daca Popovi\u0107 and retired member of the Board of Directors Suljo Alivodi\u0107, but also regular donors from that company – Vojin Katni\u0107, Slobodanka \u010cabarkapa, Senada Mule\u0161kovi\u0107 and \u017dana Rai\u010devi\u0107, donated a total of \u20ac 2,600 for Milo \u0110ukanovi\u0107’s campaign that year.<\/p>\n

Amendments to the law encourage electoral corruption<\/strong><\/p>\n

In April this year, amendments to the Law on Financing of Political Entities and Election Campaigns were adopted, and in addition to now allowing the payment of social welfare from the budget reserve during the election campaign, key changes relate to the amount of campaign donations allowed by the natural and legal persons. Namely, instead of the previous \u20ac 2,000, citizens can donate as much as \u20ac 5,000 to parties for the needs of the election campaign, and companies as much as \u20ac 20,000, which is twice as much as compared to previously allowed \u20ac 10,000.<\/p>\n

Such legal solution will facilitate entering of cash into the official budgets for the campaign, and open additional suspicions that money of unknown origin or from the so-called black funds, which afterwards, through volunteers in the form of party officials, employees of state institutions and others, are paid into the party’s account.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 Over \u20ac 18,000 were paid by 23 employees of the Public Utility Company “\u010cisto\u0107a” from Podgorica, in order to help the election campaign of the ruling Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) in the eve of the last parliamentary elections in 2016. The documentation obtained by the MANS Investigative Centre raises additional suspicions about the<\/p>\n

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