A new indictment has been filed against the former head of the secret service, Dejan Peruničić, on the suspicion that he ordered the wiretapping of officials and activists of the Democratic Front (DF).
According to unofficial information, it was an illegal recording - when representatives of that political alliance organized a two-day seminar in the "Palas" hotel in Petrovac.
Peruničić then, as previously claimed by Milan Knežević (DF), ordered the National Security Agency, which he headed - to sound the entire hotel on the Montenegrin coast.
"According to our operational information, which we received from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP), we have obtained information that the National Security Agency (ANB) in the period from July 5 to 7, 2020, sounded the entire Palas hotel in order to eavesdrop on 278 interviewers , activists, MPs and DF officials who were at the seminar," said Knežević at the beginning of November 2021.
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article of the Criminal Code states that an official who, by unlawfully using his position or authority, by exceeding the limits of his official authority or by failing to perform his official duty, obtains a benefit for himself or another, causes harm to another or severely violates the rights of another, shall be punished with imprisonment from six months to five years. ..
The former director of ANB, as told to Vijesti, is accused of having committed a criminal offense - abuse of official position, for an extended period of time. The indictment was submitted to the Podgorica High Court on April 15.
This is the third indictment filed against Peruničić, and each one concerns illegal wiretapping, that is, monitoring.
He was arrested the first time after a criminal complaint was filed for illegal wiretapping of politicians, journalists and church dignitaries, and the second time after a listening device was found in the office of the until recently Chief Special Prosecutor Milivoj Katnić.
In the first case, Peruničić was arrested at the same time as his former subordinate, the former head of the secret escort in the ANB, Srđo Pavićević.
As the authorities announced at the time, their monitoring list included the current Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapić, until recently the President of the Assembly Aleksa Bečić, the leaders of the Democratic Front Andrija Mandić and Milan Knežević, the head of their parliamentary club Slaven Radunović, the Mayor of Budva Marko Bato Carević, MP Milo Božović (DF), the leaders of the United Montenegro and the Socialist People's Party Goran Danilović and Vladimir Joković, the official of the Democrats Boris Bogdanović, as well as the journalist Nevenka Bošković Ćirović and Petar Komnenić.
In the case formed due to the illegal wiretapping of the chief special prosecutor Milivoj Katnić, Peruničić will appear in the dock on February 11.
At the end of last year, special prosecutor Miroslav Turković submitted an indictment to the court, which also charges Peruničić with the criminal offense of abuse of official position.
In that investigation, it was established that, on Peruničić's order, a listening device was installed in Katnić's office at the end of 2017, as well as that the device was in operation from the moment it was installed until the beginning of 2020.
Peruničić was arrested on October 21 last year, but after the hearing he was released to defend himself in further proceedings.
Knežević previously said that the deputies and officials of the Democratic Front were wiretapped in the Palas hotel in the period from July 5 to 7, 2020.
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