The latest in a series of contracts that Carevi\u0107 concluded earlier this year in this way is worth as much as \u20ac 700 thousand, which is the amount that “Asfalt-Beton gradnja”<\/a> received for the rehabilitation of existing roads in the territory of Budva. Thus, the business of this company with the Municipality of Budva in the last two years, since Carevi\u0107 took over the management, exceeded the amount of \u20ac 2.6 million.
<\/p>\nEach of these tenders was accompanied by documentation in which Carevi\u0107 and the owner of the company “Asfalt-beton gradnja”, Vladimir Mirkovi\u0107, signed statements on the absence of conflict of interests, while later only the machines of the mayor of Budva performed works on the ground.<\/p>\n
In addition, in the official bid of “Asfalt-beton gradnja”, inspected by the MANS Investigative Centre, Mirkovi\u0107 presented Carevi\u0107’s machinery as his own, although official financial data show that the company does not own such valuable equipment. At one of the tenders of the Municipality of Budva, Mirkovi\u0107 reported that he owns as many as 40 different machines and trucks with which he plans to perform the contracted works.<\/p>\n
Financial data of “Asfalt-beton gradnja” show that the company’s revenues increased significantly after Carevi\u0107 became the President of the Municipality of Budva. Thus, the revenue of that company in 2019 amounted to over \u20ac 3.5 million, which is twice as much than in 2018.<\/p>\n
Data and photographs from the field obtained earlier by the MANS Investigative Centre show that “Asfalt-beton gradnja” used the mechanization of “Carinvest” for works in other municipalities as well, without reporting that Carevi\u0107 participated as a subcontractor.<\/p>\n
MANS warns that Carevi\u0107 has practically made the procurement system in the municipality he manages meaningless, and that in his case it is a textbook example of conflict of interests and violation of the law that has had to be prosecuted so far:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe President of the Municipality of Budva has an indisputable economic interest in such bid rigging, which is shown by the number of contracts that Carevi\u0107 concluded as a covert subcontractor, but also their value, which is now measured in millions. In any even remotely regulated state, Carevi\u0107 and Mirkovi\u0107 would have been held accountable for abuse of official position, falsifying of official documents and violation of the Law on Public Procurement. From everything that has been gathered as evidence so far, what is clear is the conscious agreement whose aim was for the company “Carinvest” to make illegal profits, and that the president of the Municipality of Budva includes his private company in almost every major tender announced by the Municipality of Budva\u201d, Dejan Milovac, director of the MANS Investigative Centre stated.<\/p>\n
MANS also points out that in addition to the Special State Prosecutor’s Office, which rejected their report against Carevi\u0107, other competent state institutions have also failed to check the legality of Carevi\u0107’s business with the company “Asfalt-beton gradnja”. Even half a year after the information about the bid rigging became public, the Commission for Control of Public Procurement Procedures, as well as the Public Procurement Administration, have not done anything to investigate these matters.<\/p>\n
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