Igor Djurasevic, the chairman of the Board of Directors of Budva Water and Sewerage, is among the administration governing the municipality whose references are questionable, Dnevne Novine newspaper writes.
While inadequate qualifications and lack of work experience represent an issue for a large number of new officials in Budva, Djurasevic is much more difficult case. According to DN findings, when he was studying in Belgrade, Djurasevic was arrested for 20 aggravated robberies along with another person.
After receiving this information, the president of the Municipality of Budva, Dragan Krapovic, told DN last night that “Djurasevic would not be in that position as of today”.
A few years ago, Serbian media Glas Javnosti reported that “Igor Djurasevic (23) from Sveti Stefan and Goran Bulic (22) from Belgrade were arrested on suspicion of committing about 20 robberies… Djurasevic alone or along with his colleague broke into boutiques and took money, mobile phones, clothes and other valuables threatening vendors with weapons… He sold stolen things through advertisements in daily newspapers in Belgrade and Montenegro. Djurasevic kept accurate records of the amount of seized money, goods and sums earned during the sale. Criminal charges were pressed against Djurasevic and Bulic and they were brought to the investigative judge of the Belgrade District Court,” the Serbian media outlet published then.
DN obtained this information by searching the media archive and asked the Democrats (Djurasevic was a senior official and a member of the executive committee of the party), if they knew that their officers had been arrested for robbery. The party replied that it was not in possession of such information and that Djurasevic had not been their member since 28 November last year.
Democrats also told DN “to publish or submit to the party any concrete evidence of the criminal offense committed by any member or official of the party and its membership will immediately be ceased”.
It is not known whether formal abandoning the Democrats has anything to do with Djurasevic’s misdeeds from student days. However, he was appointed as chairman of Budva utility company as this party’s staff.
The decision on the appointment was published in the Official Gazette of Montenegro on 7 February and signed by the chairman of the Municipal Assembly of Budva Miomir Pejovic, who is vice president of the Democrats of Montenegro. Therefore, he was not appointed as a “non-partisan” candidate for sure.
After his appointment, the board of directors chaired by Djurasevic dismissed the director of that company Milenko Medigovic and appointed Marko Radoman, who was Lovcen Film CEO until recently.
DN called Igor Djurasevic, in order to hear his version of the case and to ask him about the epilogue after the arrest and suspicion for 20 robberies, but it did not manage to find out.
A man who answered the call told DN that the chairman of the utility’s board of directors could not answer the phone at the moment and that he would do that later.
Instead, the phone was later answered by the president of the Municipality of Budva and announced Djurasevic’s dismissal.
“After the newspaper sent the questions about this case to the Democrats, I’ve had an interview with Mr Djurasevic and can inform you that he will no longer be in office from now on. Of course, this decision has to be formalised at the next session of the Municipal Assembly. The Democrats are the party advocating absolute obeying the law and will inevitably remain on that path. This is true both for me and Aleksa Becic, as well as for Djurasevic. It does not matter who it is, all representatives of the Democratic Montenegro are absolutely clean and will remain so,” Krapovic told DN.
