The Special State Prosecutor's Office is conducting an investigation against several members of the Security Information Agency (BIA) of Serbia and police officers from Prijepolje, Belgrade and Niš, due to suspicion that they obstructed the investigation in the "coup d'état" case.
Chief Special Prosecutor Milivoje Katnić clarified that there is evidence that members of the BIA abused official actions in relation to the witness - associate Saša Sinđelić, on the basis of whose testimony, among other things, the first-instance verdict was passed in the Podgorica High Court.
"They misused their official actions in relation to Sinđelić. We informed our colleagues in Serbia about this in February, ready to help them if they also open an investigation against those persons," Katnić stressed at the press conference.
He added that on January 14, the Prosecutor's Office of Serbia submitted a document regarding Sinđelić's statement, but he could not provide details because it was filed "under the secret mark", which is why he could not present it in detail.
Special prosecutor Saša Čađenović read parts of Sinđelić's testimony, which he gave on 20.2.2019. in Smederevo, where in certain parts the witness says that he "spoke the truth" before the High Court in Podgorica.
"I do not want to change my statement, which I gave before the High Court in Podgorica, because it is true. Any disappearance or change of my statement means that I was kidnapped or forced to do so...", Čađenović read parts of the statement of Sinđelić, who is a lawyer from Smederevo submitted to the High Court in Podgorica in July last year, but also to the Court of Appeal.
"After that, from the Higher Public Prosecutor in Smederevo, we received a document - I emphasize, not evidence, and the SDT responded to that document immediately in order to determine all material evidence. The SDT's response reads - thank you for the notification about the actions you took to the cooperating witness, please submit the special evidentiary actions taken under the CPC of Serbia to our SDT. Sinđelić was forced by the BIA to state what was recorded during the implementation of the special evidentiary actions. In that statement, he described everything about the people, who forced him to participate in the directed implementation of special evidentiary actions. The SDT is ready to submit all the evidence on the circumstances of undertaking special evidentiary actions, if the Prosecution Service of Serbia is interested in conducting an investigation against BIA officials and other persons, and regarding the pressure on Sinđelić, which it has documented that service," explained Čađenović, adding that SDT is still waiting for a response from Serbia.
Last Sunday, the Democratic Front (DF) informed the Montenegrin public at a press conference that it had sent a letter to the High and Appellate Court informing Boris Savić and Mušika Dujović that the High Public Prosecutor's Office on 14.01.2020 sent a document that completely overturns the verdict for the coup d'état.
The leaders of DFAndrija Mandić and Milan Knežević asked the High and Appellate Courts to inform them if they were aware of the contents of that document, clearly stating the number of the letter and the number of the case.
At the beginning of March 2019, two videos of Saša Sinđelić were published in which he completely denies any participation and conspiracy on the day of the parliamentary elections.
The defense lawyers asked the court panel of Suzana Mugoša, Dragica Vuković and Vesna Pean to include these recordings in the evidence, but she refused with the explanation that there is no document that these recordings were obtained in accordance with the CPC.
DF has reasonable suspicions that the document addressed to Milivoj Katnić and Saša Čađenović by the High Public Prosecutor's Office refers to these two recordings, and that GST is illegally hiding them from the High and Appellate Courts, as well as from the accused and their lawyers.
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