Prime Minister Milojko Spajic’s cabinet sent a letter to the president of the National Council for the Fight against Corruption, Momo Koprivica, claiming that the Government led by Dritan Abazovic illegally spent €350,000 on lobbying.

CdM reported on this at the end of December 2022.

Spajic’s Cabinet delivered to Koprivica the documentation related to the signing of the agreement on the use of lobbying services between the Government of Montenegro and the company Bipartizan Solutions Inc. from Washington.

“After reviewing the submitted documentation, we believe that the provisions of numerous positive legal regulations have been violated”, the letter, which the CdM had access to, reads.

It is emphasized that a review of the documentation states that the engagement letter in question was concluded between Bipartizan Solutions Inc. from Washington and Dritan Abazovic, on 13 December 2022, on behalf of the Government of Montenegro, and for the conclusion of which the legal transaction was not previously given its consent.

It was assessed that in the case of the procurement of a service it was necessary to apply the Law on Public Procurement, which was not done in this case.