Former Agency for Electronic Media (EKIP) CEO Zoran Sekulic, the chairman of the EKIP Council Saleta Djurovic and three other persons are suspected of €189,000 embezzlement. As the police suspect, they were granting bonuses to themselves for the projects they were not engaged in.
This is the result of the joint operation of the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SDT) and the Police Directorate who checked why monthly fees of several hundred euros were paid to EKIP Council members for years. It was particularly suspicious that the financial transactions were done through another legal entity.
In addition to Sekulic and Djurovic, the criminal charges were filed against the Council members Ana Radonjic, Branko Kovijanic and Aleksandar Mijac.
Police suspect them of passing six decisions on the right to granting bonuses to themselves from 1 March 2010 to 1 September 2011. The decisions were based on additional engagement in the projects of strategic importance for the work of the agency, although there was no additional engagement.
“After the decisions were made, they were allegedly sent to the mediator – the Nova Lira financial intermediation company. Sekulic had previously concluded the mediation contract with the company. Thus they made payments based on the controversial decisions for alleged additional involvement at the expense of EKIP’s funds,” Police Directorate stated.
Mijac, Kovijanic, Djurovic and Sekulic are still members of the Council, whereas Radonjic has not been a member of it for several months.
As a reminder, EKIP is the most profitable state regulator, the annual budget of which is about €4.8m.
