Agency: Around 50 political subjects file financial reports

BELGRADE - Around 50 political subjects have filed their annual financial reports to the Anti-Corruption Agency, Agency officials told Tanjug on Tuesday and recalled that the deadline for submission of the reports is due to expire on Wednesday.

Political subjects, comprising all registered political parties and other political subjects whose representatives hold seats in representative bodies - including 90 citizens' groups and 97 political parties, were supposed to file their annual financial reports to the Agency by April 15 at midnight.

Political subjects were required to submit the reports in the electronic form by April 15 and had another eight days to file the document with the electronic bar-code in the written form.

This means that political subjects are supposed to mail the written form of their reports to the Agency by April 23, and the Agency officials say that the reports are considered as submitted if they arrive in both the electronic and the written form.

All registered political parties and citizens' groups which have their representatives in representative bodies have the obligation to file their annual financial reports and the reports on donations and property lists with previously procured opinion by an authorised auditor.

The report should contain the data on all revenues and expenditures of the political subject in the course of the calendar year and the list of the subject's entire property.

On grounds of the report, the public can check the manner of funding of political subjects and the way in which the funds are spent, regardless of whether the money comes from public or private sources.

The political subjects which fail to file their annual financial reports have...