Vice President of DPS, Svetozar Marović, will testify on December 24 in the Podgorica High Court in the Zavala case, the same date when the then leaders of the Budva municipality, together with his own brother Dragan, were arrested in a spectacular police operation.
This was announced by Judge Valentina Pavličić, explaining that it is a legal obligation for the Court to call him again, because he is a privileged witness.
In the continuation of the trial yesterday, the former mayor of Budva, Rajko Kuljača, said that inspector Draško Šošo and the chief inspector of the municipal police, Slavko Roganović, did not inform him that the illegally built tourist complex Zavala should be demolished, "because they will get a building permit."
He added that they were constantly in contact with the chief republican inspector Nataša Gačević and Borka Novković, the republican construction inspector.
His defense attorney, lawyer Branislav Durutović, pointed out that Šošo received instructions from the republican level and that he undertook actions that were not within his jurisdiction, but at the request of the Ministry of Spatial Planning.
"Shošo did not work on the order of the President of the Municipality, which confirmed the defense of Kuljaca. Thanks to media exploitation, the tourist complex on Zavala received special treatment in the public eye, even though there were hundreds of illegally erected buildings in Budva. "Because of the engagement in suppressing other illegal construction, it was not legally possible to do everything within a certain period," said the defense attorney.
Remarks on the testimony of the construction inspector
Kuljača also had objections to the testimony of republican construction inspector Novković, which is why he is asking for her testimony.
"She denies herself, because she measured the building basically 20 by 16 meters, which is 320 square meters, and when four more floors are added to that, it is over a thousand square meters, so how could she calculate that it is not a republic's jurisdiction. Now a new tourist complex of 29.500 square meters is being built in Budva, for which a construction permit has been granted and it is under the competence of the Ministry of the Republic. That is why it should have carried out control of illegal construction in Zavala as well, because the area is several thousand square meters", he believes.
Durutović added that this is a typical example of how to extricate oneself from responsibility - that she could not assess that it was an object under the jurisdiction of the Republic, transferring control to the Municipality of Budva.
Lawyer Dragoljub Đukanović said that Miroslava Kunić, employed in the public procurement sector of the Municipality of Budva, gave a false statement when she said that she warned Kuljač that it was illegal to use the shopping method to award work for the urban project of Cape Zavala and that she would file criminal charges against her. application.
Kuljača assessed her statement as shameful, adding that she and Aleksandar Tičić made and signed the decision on the shopping method.
"If it's illegal, why didn't she refuse it, when she could have appealed," Kuljača said.
Lawyer: The prosecutor skips the chief administrator
Attorney Durutović added that the prosecutor skipped to accuse the chief administrator and her for the shopping method, he is already skipping over them and accusing Kuljača.
Pavličić scheduled the continuation of the trial for December 18, when the then vice-presidents of the Municipality, Lazar Rađenović and Milenko Medigović, as well as Aleksandar Tičić, the municipal manager, will testify.
Kuljača requested their testimony again at the main trial on November 20, pointing out that their statements were quite strange.
“So I would like them to come. They were not decisive, and I know that they were involved in all matters. I have questions for Aleksandar Tičić, Lazar Rađenović and Milenko Medigović," Kuljača said.
Kuljača, Dragan Marović and members of the Commission for the Evaluation of Works on Zavala, are accused of damaging the municipal treasury for 821.000 euros and thus causing financial benefit to "Zavali Invest", whose co-owner was also Svetozar Marović at one time.
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