19. 05. 2020. 16:43   >>  16:44 0

FOR DAMAGING THE BUDGET

Ulcinj: Eight UIP (Directorate for Inspection Affairs) officers arrested

In the previous two days, after several months of activities, the officers of the Criminal Police Sector arrested eight officers of the Directorate for Inspection Affairs (UIP) - A.M. (63) from Ulcinj, V.V. (61) from Podgorica, M.K. (48) from Podgorica, M.S. (53) from Podgorica, Z.V. (55) from Niksic, S.K. (45) from Herceg Novi, V.S. (64) from Plav and A.S. (37) from Petnjica, due to abuse of official position, the Police Administration announced.

According to them, members of the Department for the Suppression of Economic Crime, conducting an operation lasting several months in cooperation with the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Ulcinj, collected evidence that suggested that these officers of the Directorate for Inspection Affairs, during the summer tourist season 2019 in Ulcinj, where they were employed, committed the criminal offense with which they are charged by exceeding their authority and abusing their official position.

"It is suspected that these persons, during the controls within their competence of taxpayers - catering facilities, found irregularities in their work, more precisely irregularities in the calculation and payment of necessary obligations to the budget, after which they did not make records on the performed control, and did not state established violations, which enabled the controlled taxpayers to continue illegal work and gain illegal benefits, all to the detriment of the Budget of Montenegro", the announcement stated. 

According to the Police Administration, the suspects will be brought to the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Ulcinj with a criminal report.