Deadline for reporting officials' property

The deadline for officials to submit reports on the property they own expired on Feb. 1, Beta news agency reported.

Source: Beta

Tuesday, 02.02.2010.

09:20

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The deadline for officials to submit reports on the property they own expired on Feb. 1, Beta news agency reported. Beta quoted director of the Anti-Corruption Agency Zorana Markovic, who said that all reports delivered to the agency in person by the end of business hours or by mail over the next few days and postmarked Feb. 1 would be accepted. Deadline for reporting officials' property She stated that information on the number of reports received would be published next week, while the plan for verifying the data and further steps to be taken by the agency would be established by that time also. "Aside from the annual verification plan, we are entitled ex officio to check the data from the reports and based on citizen tips. They must be signed, because the agency will not act on anonymous tips or tips that are insufficiently corroborated," Markovic said. According to the law, the officials are obliged, by Jan. 31, to report the property they owned on Jan. 1, but also property registered to their spouses or life partners, or any minors living in the household. The law envisages fines between RSD 10,000 and 50,000 for tardiness, but also prison sentences from six months to five years for officials who fail to report their property, give out false information or conceal information. If an official is convicted, they will be fired from their posts and be banned from any public office for ten years from the date of the conviction.

Deadline for reporting officials' property

She stated that information on the number of reports received would be published next week, while the plan for verifying the data and further steps to be taken by the agency would be established by that time also.

"Aside from the annual verification plan, we are entitled ex officio to check the data from the reports and based on citizen tips. They must be signed, because the agency will not act on anonymous tips or tips that are insufficiently corroborated," Marković said.

According to the law, the officials are obliged, by Jan. 31, to report the property they owned on Jan. 1, but also property registered to their spouses or life partners, or any minors living in the household.

The law envisages fines between RSD 10,000 and 50,000 for tardiness, but also prison sentences from six months to five years for officials who fail to report their property, give out false information or conceal information.

If an official is convicted, they will be fired from their posts and be banned from any public office for ten years from the date of the conviction.

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