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Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
Housing Commission, a phantom organ that has been breaking laws for years
In an effort to completely clear up many controversies surrounding the work of the Housing Commission, new issues are continually raised and new breaches of the law are found. Thus, among other things, the Commission which is an independent authority that is subject to the Law on Free Access to Information has been violating this…
Accountable public finances, Other, Public administration reform
Documentary “Envelope”
Clip published in January this year clearly shows Knežević, as one of the wealthiest Montenegrins and until recently very close to Milo Đukanović, handing over a (cash stuffed) envelope to a high DPS official Slavoljub Stijepović just before 2016 election. Duško Knežević, who fell out with the clique released a video which explains what lays…
Accountable public finances, Blog, EU accession negotiations
Blog: Housing Corruption
The Government has released a list of 98 officials whose so-called housing needs it has resolved. Although this is only a small part of the complete information which the public is rightfully requesting from the government, the extent of the injustice is obvious. It showed what we already suspected. Citizen’s money is being squandered by…
EU accession negotiations, Public administration reform
The Agency for Prevention of Corruption protects conflict of interest instead of prosecuting it
Human Rights Action (HRA), Network for the Affirmation of the NGO Sector (MANS), Alternative Institute (IA) and Centre for Civic Education (CCE) submitted, on 9 August 2019, two requests to the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (APC), suggesting this body to establish violation of the provisions of the Law on Prevention of Corruption, in…
13,6 million euros donated to public officials in a decade
In Slovenia and Croatia, EU member states which were once part of Yugoslavia, there is no policy of granting housing loans to public servants and officials Information that 96 officials gained apartment or housing loan on preferential terms since 2016 is only the tip of the iceberg, since more than a 13,6 million euros were…
2,5 million from Tivat’s budget for apartments and loans
The story of siphoning public funds into the pockets of public officials in Tivat over the last three years Municipality of Tivat spent more than 2,5 million for “resolving housing issues“ of local officials in past 3 years, during the mandate of the DPS-SD-HGI coalition, through budget payments, tax deductions and donations of municipal property.…