The basic state prosecutor did not ask for custody of Zoran Ćoć Bećirović, and that is why the businessman was not even heard by the investigative judge.
The prosecutor's office informed Vijesti that on Friday - November 29, they received a case filed before the Special State Prosecutor's Office against Bećirović, who is suspected of having committed a criminal offense - preventing evidence.
"On Friday, November 29, 11, the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica received a case filed before the Special State Prosecutor's Office, against the person ZB for the criminal offense of preventing evidence. The acting prosecutor in the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica did not ask for detention for ZB", according to the answers signed by the spokesperson of the Basic State Prosecutor's Office, prosecutor Milica Mandić.
At the same time, "Vijesta" was told by the basic court in Podgorica that Bećirović was not heard by the investigating judge, who would eventually decide on the request for custody.
"I am informing you that in the Basic Court in Podgorica, the person ZB was not heard before the judge for the investigation," announced Nikoleta Golubović, public relations advisor of the Basic Court in Podgorica.
Bećirović is a friend of the head of state, Milo Đukanović, and the President of the Supreme Court, Vesna Medenica.
According to unconfirmed information, he allegedly threatened a court expert involved in the cases in which he was involved.
The "Vijesti" source claims that in the messages sent to the expert, he mentioned the chief special prosecutor Milivoj Katnić, as well as some other prosecutors, in a negative context.
This information was neither confirmed nor denied by the Police Administration.
According to the Criminal Code, anyone who commits the crime of preventing evidence faces imprisonment from six months to five years.
"Whoever gives, offers or promises a gift or other benefit to a witness or an expert witness or another participant before a court or other state authority, or a member of his family or family community, or uses force or threats against him with the intention of influencing that person by giving a false statement or not giving a statement on the outcome of the proceedings, will be punished with imprisonment from six months to five years", it is stated in Article 390 of the CC.
Bećirović was arrested three days ago by members of the Special Police Department, acting on the order of the Special State Prosecutor's Office headed by Katnić.
A day later, he was questioned at the Basic Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica, after it was assessed that the criminal offense charged against him was within their jurisdiction.
The suspect said on Friday evening that he had not been arrested, and one of his legal defenders practically simultaneously told the "Vijesti" journalist that he was abroad and that he knew nothing about the eventual deprivation of his client's freedom. He came into the public spotlight again recently, when the Network for the Affirmation of the Non-Governmental Sector (MANS) disclosed that Medenica sold part of her property to him, allegedly in violation of the law because she did not report these transactions to the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption.
She denied it.
In May 2017, Mirjana Đurović, judge of the Podgorica Court for Misdemeanors, ruled that the godfather of the state president Vuk Rajković and Bećirović must pay 2.400 euros together, because in April of that year they obstructed, insulted and belittled the officers of the Police Administration during the intervention in the "Beagle" discotheque. ” due to, it turns out, a false report that a bomb had been planted in it.
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