At today's panel session in the "coup d'état" case, which was held in the Court of Appeal of Montenegro, lawyer Miroje Jovanović requested the disqualification of the panel of the Court of Appeal as well as Vesna Medenica, president of the Supreme Court of Montenegro.
Jovanović said that there is evidence in the case files, and what the Podgorica High Court failed to establish, that in January 2016, Vesna Medenica, judges of the Court of Appeal, Seka Piletić, and Milenka allegedly had communications with telephone numbers starting with 447... Žižić and High Court judge Suzana Mugoša.
"In the case files, there is a file in which it is written that Medenica, Piletić, Žižić and Mugoša also had communications with numbers starting with 447. Among the lists from Montenegro that were read together in 2018 at the hearing in the High Court, among others, there is a folder containing alleged communications with numbers starting with 447, which are incriminated in the case, because the SDT claimed that they belong to GRU agents. According to the case file, judges also allegedly had communications with those incriminated numbers Piletić, Žižić, Mugoša and Vesna Medenica," said Jovanović.
According to the first-instance verdict in the "coup d'etat" case, the goal of the criminal organization, which was formed by Russian citizens Eduard Šišmakov and Vladimir Popov, was to prevent Montenegro from joining the NATO alliance. The leaders of the Democratic Front, Andrija Mandić and Milan Knežević, were sentenced to five years in prison. due to membership in a criminal organization since February 2016.
The goal of the criminal organization, which was created by Russian citizens Eduard Šišmakov and Vladimir Popov, planned to, on the day of the parliamentary elections on October 16, 2016, with the help of the Democratic Front, clash with the Montenegrin police and forcibly occupy the Assembly of Montenegro, and to kidnap and kill the then Prime Minister of Montenegro Milo Đukanović.
For the criminal acts of creating a criminal organization and attempted terrorism, Šišmakov was sentenced to a single sentence of 15 years in prison, and Popov to three years less.
The verdict stated that they acted with direct intent.
Citizen of Serbia, general and former commander of the gendarmerie, Bratislav Dikić, was sentenced to a single sentence of eight years in prison for the crimes of attempted terrorism by aiding and abetting and creating a criminal organization.
Predrag Bogićević and Nemanja Ristić were each sentenced to seven years in prison for the same criminal acts.
Branka Milić was sentenced to three years in prison, Dragan Maksić to one year and nine months, while Srboljub Đorđević and Milan Dušić were sentenced to one year and six months each.
Kristina Hristić was sentenced to one year in prison, suspended for two years if she does not repeat the crime, starting from the day it becomes final.
The session of the council, where it is planned to read the appeals of the defense lawyers on the first-instance verdict, is scheduled for the eighth and ninth of December.
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