Whose door should state auditors knock on?

08. 12. 2020.

Consultations of the SAI and civil society when: December 9th, 11am where: ZOOM platforma i IA Facebook page   We are organising civil society consultations with the Senate of the State Audit Institution (SAI) in anticipation of the development of the annual audit plan for 2021. Members of the SAI Senate will talk to representatives…

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Duplication instead of upgrading – the role of UNDP in Montenegro

06. 12. 2020.

UNDP and the Ministry of Finance have created a local finance portal – which is similar in purpose, appearance and way of presenting data to our portal on local budgets, My City, published in 2013. If a different presentation had not already been made, it would have been more rational to continue working on My…

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Traces of Ministers in Suspicious Public Procurement (II)

20. 11. 2020.

Warm and safe – Bošković  From Pljevlja, through Nikšić and Podgorica, to Ulcinj and Budva, the business of two Nikšić companies which deal with the provision of security for property and individuals is connected with the former Minister of Defence and the positions he was in charge of. Former Minister of Defence Predrag Bošković is…

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Delivery of the Contract – After the Resignation

12. 11. 2020.

The contract that we could not obtain before, we received after Ms. Maraš resigned, and a new CEO was appointed (and we were persistent as well). Manager’s contract with Verica Maraš, which was extended for another 5 years in 2018 – available at: https://bit.ly/35oPtr4 We thank the new executive director, Mr. Vuković to whom we…

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State Owned Enterprises on Black List of Tax Debtors

10. 11. 2020.

On the black list of tax debtors, first five debtors are state owned enterprises. According to the data of Tax Administration, just those five debtors owe a total of 27.7 millions of euros based on unpaid taxes and tax on contributions. This is also the same amount of the questionable state aid to state owned…

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European Commission: Montenegro Remained Average

06. 10. 2020.

As in the previous five years, based on the methodology of the European Commission, IA transformed the report’ assessments into numbers in order to see scores in a simpler way, and compare the situation with previous years. Although this is the first report of the new commissioner Várhelyi and his team, it does not differ…

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