The Public Relations Service of the Administration for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions reminded the President of the Trade Union of Administration and Justice, Nenad Rakočević, that failure to report a criminal offense is punishable, and told him that his announcement was a "political pamphlet."
They reacted after Rakočević announced that the current assistant director of the Directorate for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions (UIKS) Goran Maraš, the day after Budimir Krstović was detained, violated all regulations, rules and authorities and entered the part of the Investigation Prison and Krstović's cell where he was staying time, and that a search of Krstović's cell a day later found an expensive phone.
Maraš, as stated in the statement signed by Rakočević, was then the head of the Penitentiary.
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"Mr. Rakočević, President of the Trade Union of the Administration and the Judiciary, we expected that your press release about the situation in UIKS and the alleged criminal acts of one of the assistant directors of this Administration would finally be more concrete. presented a series of facts that, we are sure, will be sufficient to determine the prosecutor in his further work. You submitted the criminal complaint to the special prosecutor, or as you said, evidence, information and directions, on July 28.07.2022, XNUMX, for the purpose of investigation and prosecution 'undisguised Since you worked at UIKS, and now your old job is waiting for you after the end of your position in the Trade Union, as the president of the Trade Union and someone who deals with the rights of employees in this Administration, we remind you that you were obliged to share your knowledge about the criminal acts and the perpetrator, which reliably date from a long time ago, to be communicated to the state authorities even before the month of July," he wrote in the response.
They point out that, for the sake of the citizens, they emphasize that Article 254 of the Criminal Procedure Law prescribes the obligation to report a criminal offense, and Article 386 of the Criminal Code of Montenegro prescribes a criminal sanction in case of failure to report it.
"Therefore, we appeal to the prosecutor to look at this aspect of your report, which we interpret without any doubt as a political pamphlet written to achieve a certain political goal, known only to you, with the especially aggravating circumstance of abuse of the position of the union president. It is clear to us that You do not have a sincere desire to eradicate negative individuals and negative phenomena from this Administration and from our society. You need a media space which, we must admit, you use very successfully, not taking into account the damage you are doing to all those who work honorably and hard in this institution. We understand your threats to continue publishing further compromising evidence and materials as the height of cynicism and arrogance, which you have the right to do, and which is clearly part of your character. Unlike you, we support it institutionally, based on facts and objectively determined circumstances the actions of competent institutions, where we direct all our efforts. As such, we are open to all state authorities that are responsible for monitoring the work and control of UIKS, as well as for authorities that are in charge of detecting and prosecuting perpetrators of criminal offenses, which are prosecuted according to the official duties", it is written in their response.
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