Most of the lectures on peer violence after the "Ribnikar" massacre were actually held for free by local youth offices, while phantom agencies charged 5000 euros per lecture.
The Ministry of Education immediately after the massacre in Elementary school "Vladislav Ribnikar" gave thousands of euros to a network of phantom training organizations peer violence and children's rights. Some lectures were not held at all, and for others it is not clear to what extent they were held.
The network of related associations and agencies from 2022 to 2023 for lectures on the prevention of violence in schools received more than 180.000 euros from the Ministry of Education, writes the Balkan Research Network (BIRN).
Most of the lectures were actually held for free by local youth offices, while phantom agencies charged 5000 euros per lecture. The money for the lectures was transferred to the accounts of related agencies, which were opened and closed within a few months.
About 25 euros per child
For example, the Ministry of Education gave 15.000 euros to the Association of Citizens for Support of Socially Vulnerable Persons with financial support for three lectures at the Railway Technical School. Each lecture was to be held for 350 students. The money was awarded to them in a competition just six days after the massacre at the "Vladislav Ribnikar" Elementary School.
In the report submitted by the Association to the Ministry, it is written that three agencies were engaged and paid for holding those three lectures - each of them received about 5.000 euros, and the contracts of the Association and the agencies stated that the price of the lecture is about 25 euros per child.
At the end of 2023, BIRN, in cooperation with Civic Initiatives, published the research "Fake payments, fictitious lectures: How millions of euros for the vulnerable ended up in other people's pockets" revealing that in 2021 the members of this network extracted about five million euros through the network of their private agencies, submitting to the Ministry of Family Care and Demography fake reports on payments for lectures in schools that were either not held or were held free of charge by local youth offices.
180.000 euros per year for the prevention of violence in schools
The network of related associations and agencies received more than 2022 euros from the Ministry of Education from 2023 to 180.000 for lectures on the prevention of violence in schools.
It is not entirely clear how many lectures were actually held, and most of those that were were actually held for free by local youth offices, while phantom agencies charged 5.000 euros per lecture.
The money for the lectures was transferred to the accounts of related agencies, which were opened and closed within a few months.
The Balkan Research Network tried to get in touch with all the associations that received money from the Ministry of Education, but two have since been shut down, and the others did not respond to BIRN's questions.
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