The executive director of Action for Human Rights, Tea Gorjanc Prelevic, assessed that the chief special prosecutor Milivoje Katnić, by publishing the transcripts of the conversation of lawyer Goran Rodić, was reaching for an unacceptable means to defend himself.
The Special State Prosecutor's Office published on its official website the transcripts of Rodić's conversations with his recent client Milan Knežević, accused of attempted terrorism, as well as colleagues and associates from his law office. Rodić's correspondence was found in the lawyer's phone, which was seized by the SDT in the A2A case.
"It seems that the prosecutor's authority was abused, and that the content of the correspondence of lawyer Rodić, which is not related to the A2A case, for which the proceedings were initiated against him, was inspected.
This is a precedent that violated Rodić's right to privacy and defense in criminal proceedings, as the prosecution published parts of that correspondence with its own interpretation, regardless of any criminal procedure," said Gorjanc Prelevic.
She assessed that such behavior, which goes beyond any procedure, is extremely worrying and causes general insecurity:
"Because it can happen to anyone. No matter how much he is insulted or even realistically threatened, the chief special state prosecutor must know that he is the one who has serious power, serious powers, from confiscation of personal belongings, through jeopardizing his career to deprivation of liberty, and he must not abuse these powers in any way. what price".
The Bar Association condemned the publication of the interview yesterday, deeming it unacceptable.
"The legal profession, as the constitutional bearer of providing legal assistance to citizens, condemns such gross attacks on the basic principles of the legal profession and the rights of citizens," reads the announcement of the AK.
They reiterated that Rodić's office was illegally raided at the end of June, and that even then they warned the SDT that the information obtained during the search of the law office cannot be used to conduct proceedings against any party of that law office.
In a statement published with the transcripts, SDT claims that they decided to do this in order to reveal "media manipulations and planned extra-institutional activities".
They claim that Rodić tried to discredit Katnić and the prosecution on every basis, to obtain enormous sums of money:
"And he achieved the goal that he set out in the same period, which is to be elected to the position of the supreme state prosecutor, and through compromises in the case of attempted terrorism."
Yesterday, the Front called Katnić an "SMS voyeur", accusing him of turning SDT into a media center of the Democratic Party of Socialists.
They invited him to acquaint the Montenegrin public with the transcripts of his conversations with former Prime Minister Milo Đukanović, and cooperating witnesses in the coup d'état case, Saša Sinđelić and Mirko Paja Velimirović.
Rodić: I will not answer in Katnic's way
Lawyer Goran Rodić said yesterday that his dignity and profession do not allow him to write off Katnić in his own way:
"There is no point in commenting on the publication of targeted private correspondence with clients, colleagues and friends. Especially because the published correspondence also contains inside jokes, remarks, private thoughts and comments. The public always believes what it wants, and only the Chief Special Prosecutor and I know the truth. The background of all this, however, is not only known to the two of us. It is too obvious”.
He added that there is only one truth, that his young associates and he are not a criminal organization:
"Nor did we break the law in our business relationship with A2A. I am not waging any 'special war' against the chief special prosecutor, nor does it occur to me to deprive someone of a place in the prosecutor's organization. I have never obstructed prosecution and court proceedings. In the defense of clients, I use only legally permitted means. He also knows very well the Special Prosecutor's Office, as well as the public, who followed quite a number of cases in which he acted as a defense attorney.
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