Construction inspectors Zoran Bošković and Vladan Juretić were released from detention after eight months, the spokesman of the Basic Court in Kotor, judge Špiro Pavićević, confirmed to "Vijesta".
Pavićević explained that the detention was lifted after the bail of the defendants, in real estate and money, was accepted.
The suspended officials of the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism were arrested on November 1, 2019, a day after a recording of a conversation between them and investor Boško Nenezić was broadcast on Television Vijesti, during which a businessman in a restaurant handed over 5.000 euros to Bošković in order to allow him continuation of construction on the building despite the expired permit. The day after the broadcast of the show, the Minister of Sustainable Development and Tourism Pavle Radulović resigned.
The acting judge, however, will not be able to use as evidence the recordings made by Nenezić with a mobile phone and a watch with a camera, because the High Court accepted the appeal of the defense attorneys of the detained building inspectors and ordered that they be excluded from the case file.
However, evidence collected through covert surveillance measures carried out by the police will be used.
"The Higher Court in Podgorica, with its decision dated January 20, 1, changed the decision of this court from December 2020, 19... in such a way that the decision was confirmed in the part that refers to the rejection of the proposal for exclusion from the file of the items of evidence obtained through the application of secret surveillance measures, while it was canceled in the part that refers to the exclusion from the case file of audio and video recordings recorded by the defendant Nenezić Boško's mobile phone and wristwatch camera," Judge Pavićević explained earlier.
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