After reporting to TI BiH, the inspection found: Zeljković does not meet the requirements to be an adviser to the director of Civil Protection of the RS

The former director of the Institute of Public Health of the RS, who was arrested due to an affair related to the procurement of equipment during the pandemic, got a job without a competition as an expert advisor after being released from custody.

However, Zeljković did not meet the requirements regarding professional education for this position, because the Faculty of Pharmacy he graduated from is not intended for the position of expert advisor according to the Rulebook on Internal Organization and Systematization of Workplaces. TI BiH informed the Administrative Inspection about this, which then ordered the Director of Civil Protection to hand Zeljković a decision on termination of employment within 15 days.

Zeljković, as claimed by Civil Protection in the response to TI BiH, was employed in a specific position “due to the increased workload” for a certain period of time, and was previously dismissed from the position of director of the RS Public Health Institute due to his detention. Against him, and due to the conclusion of disputed contracts with the companies “Procontrol” and “Travel for fun”, TI BiH is still in 2020. filed a criminal complaint for illegal procurement of medical equipment during the pandemic. In that case, the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of RS is still conducting the investigation, and Zeljković was released from custody on the 16th. in February of this year after spending five months.

Already in April, the media announced that he was employed as an adviser to his party colleague Milan Novitović, who is the director of the Republican Administration of Civil Protection of the RS, and TI BiH sent the application to the inspection in May, because Zeljković did not meet the requirements for that position according to the regulations. A position in an administrative body can be filled only if it is provided for in the rulebook on internal organization and systematization of positions and if its filling corresponds to the personnel plan of the republican administrative body for the current year.

Furthermore, according to the same rulebook, the acting deputy director of Civil Protection, Nenad Ćuk, does not meet the requirements to be in that position, because he is a graduate economist. TI BiH also requested inspection supervision in this case, and the Administrative Inspection found that the Government of the RS appointed Nenad Ćuk to this position more than three times for a period of 90 days, which violated the Law on Civil Servants. In the notification of the inspection that was delivered to TI BiH, it is stated that the inspection informed the Government of RS about the irregularities found and called on it to act according to the law, that is, to dismiss Nenad Ćuk from this position. TI BiH calls on the RS Government to comply with the inspection order because this provision of the law is often not respected during the successive appointments of numerous heads of republican administrative bodies in Republika Srpska.

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