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<\/a>Milutin Simovi\u0107, chairman of NCB<\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>Information from the session of the Government of Montenegro<\/p><\/div>\n
That amount is only a part of the money that the Government spent from the state budget without previously conducted tender, and based on the decisions of the National Coordination Body (NCB), which adopts them behind closed doors and contrary to the public procurement procedure.<\/p>\n
Namely, the Prime Minister Du\u0161ko Markovi\u0107 announced during the Prime Minister’s Hour, held at the end of April in the Parliament of Montenegro, that everything that NCB has spent so far from donations will be covered from the state budget in order to direct all funds from donations to the construction of a new infectious diseases clinic.<\/p>\n
According to the latest data from NCB, \u20ac1.7 million have been paid so far from the bank account where donations are collected, of which nearly 600 thousand were spent on the purchase of respirators, more than 200 thousand on equipping of temporary hospitals, while 315 thousand were redirected to the Red Cross of Montenegro, and the rest was spent on the procurement of tests for COVID19, food, and redirected at the request of donors to certain public health institutions.<\/p>\n
Apart from the money that was forwarded to the Red Cross, the rest of the donated funds was spent in a procedure that was not completely open to the public, without a public tender and only based on the assessment of the operational headquarters and NCB itself.<\/p>\n
Thus, “Glossary” company from Podgorica got a job worth more than half a million Euros, Farmont company \u20ac 170 thousand, and “Voli Trade” over \u20ac 100 thousand.<\/p>\n
All that money that was spent contrary to the tender procedure, at least contrary to the one that was communicated with the public, will now be reimbursed from the state budget. All other state institutions announced tenders for emergency procurements in accordance with the Law on Public Procurement, which was not the case with NCB, which still has over seven million Euros of donations currently at its disposal on its account without any control. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Decisions on the spending of these funds were signed by Milutin Simovi\u0107 as the chairman of the body, but for now, there is no more detailed information on how NCB chose certain companies.<\/p>\n