Employees and parents of Belgrade students Aviation Academy pointed out on Saturday (September 13) that the high school serves as a front for extraction of millions of funds from European funds.
At the press conference, numerous contracts were shown which, as it is claimed, testify to numerous procedural and financial irregularities, so the reactions of the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime and European institutions were requested accordingly.
One of the parents, Ivan Miletić, stated that, according to current knowledge, it is a sum of 32 million euros, and probably more than that is problematic.
"That's what we have the papers for and what the Office for Dual Education is involved in. The school has been used all along as a cover for this huge amount of money," Milrtić believes.
He also pointed out that the Office for Dual Education deals with tenders in this area.
"The airport in Vršac is a place that is particularly interesting and attractive," said Miletić.
Employees chased away the new acting director
On Friday (September 12), the employees chased away the new acting director Srđan Čokoril, who was personally appointed by the Minister of Education Dejan Vuk Stanković, as well as members of the forced administration, who came to dismiss the members of the School Board.
"People have been brought in who will cover up all these corrupt actions and put a signature and seal on all of it, so that it looks legal," said Miletić.
School Board member Petar Čelik also referred to the attempt to introduce new school authorities, which, he claims, employees and parents will not allow.
"It's actually an authority that wants to sign 1.000 criminal acts and 1.000 years in prison," Celik believes.
He singles out the fact that it is about European funds and resources as particularly important.
"They are not aware of the fact that when EU funds are misused, you have to deal with their bodies. The state must then compensate and prosecute, and if we don't do it here, then they will prosecute there," Celik warned.
He pointed out as particularly controversial the fact that acting director Srđan Čokorilo was appointed despite the fact that disciplinary proceedings were initiated against him at the school and that he was initially fired because of that proceedings.
All evidence submitted to the Ministry
Čelik claims that the Ministry of Education was provided with all the evidence of the disciplinary procedure, including some threatening messages that, as he claims, were sent by Čokorilo.
At the press conference, the president of the Forum of Secondary Vocational Schools, Milorad Antić, also spoke, who requested the arrest of all those responsible for irregularities and malfeasance at the Air Force Academy.
About 60 contracts, agreements and solutions were delivered to journalists, which, according to employees and parents, are proof of all financial and administrative irregularities connected with the Aviation Academy.
Four years ago - in 2021, according to one of the employees, Drakčet Vidojević, the Government made a decision that the school and training center be state-owned and that a Vocational College be established. According to the government, the aviation academy was assigned the Vršac airport as a base for classes.
Vidojević pointed out that on April 3 of this year, at the proposal of the Ministry of Education, the Government made a decision on the transfer of the right to use the property, that is, that the property given to the Academy should be transferred to the University.
At today's press conference, it was pointed out that the Government was in a technical mandate and was not allowed to make that decision, with the assessment that it was "misuse of the Academy's property".
Employees and parents warned that the international licenses owned by that institution, as well as certain obligations that Serbia has in international aviation, are threatened by illegalities.
Source: FoNet
