14. 01. 2022. 00:00   >>  17:31

STATE AUDIT INSTITUTION (DRI)

Initiated proceedings against Carevic and Raicevic

The State Audit Institution (DRI) submitted requests for initiating offence proceedings against the mayors of Budva and Bar, Marko Carevic and DusanRaicevic, for failure to submit documentation in connection with the audit of the success of the project "Efficiency of wastewater management".

The DRI provision, as noted in the statement, stipulates that the subject of audit is obliged to, at the request of the Institution, make all documents, financial statements, reports, financial records, internal controls and other records available to the Institution or make it available to the authorized person performing the audit, without delay.

It is also defined that the subject of audit is obliged to provide the Institution or the authorized person with access to documents or information of a confidential nature or documents that represent business and other secrets in accordance with the law.

The responsible persons of the municipalities of Budva and Bar were provided with notifications on the audit with a request for documentation, as well as the Urgency for submitting documentation on the occasion of the audit, but no response was submitted to the said acts, nor was the requested documentation submitted. The DRI sent requests for initiating offence proceedings with accompanying evidence to the competent offence courts in Budva and Bar," the statement said.