Former directors bought burial plots for family members and then resold them

18.09.2024. / 15:18

BANJALUKA – The Mayor of Banja Luka, Draško Stanivuković, accused the former directors of the City Cemetery of numerous illegalities, including pouring fuel on the account of this company for private purposes and reselling grave sites at significantly higher prices.

Together with the current director of the City Cemetery, Aleksandar Milaković, he presented details about the embezzlement of the previous management of this company at the press conference.

Stanivuković stated that the previous management of this company, above all the former director Željko Grbić, bought grave sites in the names of his family members, after which he resold them at significantly higher prices.

“Grave plots were bought by aunts and uncles, there is an invoice that he bought a grave plot for his daughter for the New Year for about 900 marks, and later it was remodeled and sold for 6,000 KM. So, they bought grave sites for family members and then sold them”, said Stanivuković, showing the invoices.

As he said, the grave sites that are still free according to the company’s documents are in reality already occupied.

“It’s still a plot of land on paper, but in fact a grave site was built and sold for KM 6,000 to other people. Who could have thought of that. That’s not in the darkest films,” pointed out Stanivuković.

He accused the former director of this city company, Željko Grbić, of pouring fuel into a private vehicle at the company’s expense.

“After 39 minutes, he drove another vehicle into which he poured fuel, and all the invoices are at the cemetery,” said Stanivuković and added that last year in February, Grbić refueled seven official vehicles 14 times.

The director of the City Cemetery, Aleksandar Milaković, explained that this company is in a deficit of about 700,000 KM, because about 200 graves were sold, and the money was never recorded in the company’s account.

On the other hand, Željko Grbić and his party colleague from the SPS and successor as director of the City Cemetery, Ratko Jokić, said in a statement in front of the City Administration that all these are pre-election tricks.

Grbić admitted that his daughter had indeed bought the grave site, but denied that he had knowledge of a possible resale.

“My daughter is in Frankfurt. You bought a burial plot. As far as I know, that place is owned by her, I don’t know if she resold it”Grbic said.

He added that everything was according to the law during the period when he was the director, stressing that the director does not sit and sell tombs.

“Every citizen can buy a burial place, including my daughter”he said and added that there was no resale of grave sites.

When it comes to accusations of filling private cars with fuel at the company’s expense, Grbić said that he had mistakenly poured fuel into private cars at the company’s expense, but that the mistake was quickly corrected.

“That day I was driving my and my daughter’s car. The worker at the pump accidentally invoiced the ‘City Cemetery’, but the mistake has been corrected. I paid 250 KM for that fuel”said Grbić.

Ratko Jokić assessed that there is nothing controversial in someone buying a large number of burial plots, as long as he has the money to pay for them.

“Everyone has the right to buy 20 burial places if they have the money for it”Jokic said.

We remind you that after Stanivuković made accusations against him yesterday via social networks, Željko Grbić filed a criminal complaint against Stanivuković with the Banja Luka prosecutor’s office for, as he stated, the slander and lies he told in public.

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