{"id":8402,"date":"2020-09-22T11:24:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T09:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mans.co.me\/en\/?p=8402"},"modified":"2020-09-28T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T12:03:00","slug":"criminal-complaint-filed-against-vukovic-makrid-and-toskovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mans.co.me\/en\/?p=8402","title":{"rendered":"Criminal complaint filed against Vukovi\u0107, Makrid and To\u0161kovi\u0107"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today, MANS filed a criminal complaint with the Special State Prosecutor&#8217;s Office against Ivan Vukovi\u0107, the mayor of the Capital City Podgorica, Filip Makrid, the executive director of &#8220;Vodovod i kanalizacija&#8221; Podgorica, and Ivica To\u0161kovi\u0107, the owner of the company &#8220;To\u0161kovi\u0107i&#8221;, all because of their involvement in the business affair of construction of the secondary sewage system in Podgorica, which was recently discovered by MANS.<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mans.co.me\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot_1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8403\" src=\"https:\/\/mans.co.me\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"707\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mans.co.me\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot_1.png 707w, https:\/\/mans.co.me\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot_1-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 707px) 100vw, 707px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vukovi\u0107 and Makrid are suspected of abusing office and negligent work in the service, which resulted in concluding a contract with the company &#8220;To\u0161kovi\u0107i&#8221;, whose owner at the time was convicted of creating a criminal organization and tax evasion. In the MANS\u2019 report, Ivica To\u0161kovi\u0107 is suspected of the criminal offense of fraud and abuse of authority in economy. Mayor Vukovi\u0107 himself had grounds to file a criminal complaint against To\u0161kovi\u0107, but for now there is no confirmation that he did so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mans.co.me\/en\/convict-for-tax-evasion-given-a-million-dollar-tender\/\">As MANS announced last week, Vukovi\u0107 and Makrid participated in awarding of the contract on the construction of the first phase of the secondary sewage system to Toskovic&#8217;s company, although it was contrary to the rules of KfW Bank, whose grant financed this project, as well as against domestic legislation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The contract worth \u20ac 1.83 million was concluded at the end of March this year, although the judgement against To\u0161kovi\u0107 was passed in November last year, and the period between those two events was enough for the city officials to learn about a person they are awarding a million-worth job to.<\/p>\n<p>There is more than a well-founded suspicion that Vukovi\u0107 and Makrid had full information about To\u0161kovi\u0107&#8217;s verdict, as well as that they knowingly ignored the facts that could have excluded his company from this job. In that sense, MANS asks the prosecutor to examine all connections between Vukovi\u0107 and Makrid with Ivica To\u0161kovi\u0107 in order to get the clear picture of the motives of city officials to, despite the clear rules of the creditor, assign the job to the company &#8220;To\u0161kovi\u0107i&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Ivica To\u0161kovi\u0107 submitted a statement within his offer guaranteeing that he was not convicted by a final judgment, by which, as it is suspected, he committed the criminal offense of fraud and abuse of power in economy. There is a well-founded suspicion that this statement, although invalid, served as an excuse for Vukovi\u0107 and Makrid to conclude a disputed deal with To\u0161kovi\u0107. However, the awarding of the contract worth almost two million Euros had to be preceded by elementary checks of the credibility of the companies with which the Capital City and Vodovod enter into contractual relations, which Vukovi\u0107 and Makrid never did.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vardar&#8221; affair was the subject of dozens of media articles during last year, and Vukovi\u0107 and Makrid knew for sure who Ivica To\u0161kovi\u0107 was. Such a great omission is virtually impossible if we are talking about serious and professional, and above all, uncorrupted state institutions.<\/p>\n<p>We expect a timely reaction from the State Prosecutor\u2019s Office, which will further clarify the relations between Vukovi\u0107, Makrid and To\u0161kovi\u0107 and ultimately result in prosecution of all those responsible for breaking the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Today, MANS filed a criminal complaint with the Special State Prosecutor&#8217;s Office against Ivan Vukovi\u0107, the mayor of the Capital City Podgorica, Filip Makrid, the executive director of &#8220;Vodovod i kanalizacija&#8221; Podgorica, and Ivica To\u0161kovi\u0107, the owner of the company &#8220;To\u0161kovi\u0107i&#8221;, all because of their involvement in the business affair of construction of the<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"cat-17\" href=\"https:\/\/mans.co.me\/en\/?p=8402\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[326,350,342,347],"class_list":{"0":"post-8402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-press_releases","8":"tag-criminal-complaint","9":"tag-filip-makrid","10":"tag-ivan-vukovic","11":"tag-ivica-toskovic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mans.co.me\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mans.co.me\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mans.co.me\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mans.co.me\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mans.co.me\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mans.co.me\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mans.co.me\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mans.co.me\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mans.co.me\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mans.co.me\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}