Long-time director of marketing at the company "13. jul Plantaže" and former member of the Board of Directors in that state-owned company, Anica Hajduković, did not participate in malpractices in the business with the briquette factory - the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) determined that there is no reason to suspect that she committed any criminal offense for which prosecution is undertaken ex officio.
"The criminal complaint against the suspect was dismissed, because during the reconnaissance and investigation it was established that there is no reasonable suspicion that she committed the criminal offense for which she is being prosecuted ex officio. The damaged company did not undertake her criminal prosecution, nor did it submit a complaint for review of the decision on the dismissal of the criminal complaint to the Supreme State Prosecutor's Office of Montenegro," the SDT spokesman and special prosecutor replied to "Vijesta" Vukas Radonjic.
He explained that Hajduković will be heard as a witness in the further course of the investigation.
Hajduković was arrested on July 11 at the behest of prosecutor Radonjić. After the hearing, she was released.
In the investigation of the operations of the state company "13. jul Plantaže" then the former president and members of the Board of Directors were arrested Veselin Vukotić, Bozo Mihailović, Djordje Rajković, Sead Shahman i Dusko Perovic.
After the arrest of the former members of the Board of Directors from SDT, they announced that they had been handcuffed because there were grounds for suspicion that they had committed the criminal offense of abuse of position in business operations:
"Because, as members of the Board of Directors, they made the decision to conclude a harmful contract on out-of-court settlement, between the injured company in '13. July - Plantaže' AD and 'OMP Engineering' from Podgorica, the partial execution of which caused damage to the injured company, and 'OMP Engineering' benefited", SDT announced.
Almost a month and a half later, on August 24, in the same investigation, the former executive director of the company "13. July Plantation" Verica Marash.
SDT suspected that she had abused her position in business operations.
The damage allegedly caused to the state by malfeasance in the business with "OMP Engineering" is measured in millions.
One of the interlocutors of "Vijesti", however, claims that it is very possible that the accusations of the prosecution will not stop there and that there is allegedly more documentation that shows that the suspects also worked illegally in other cases. This has not been officially confirmed by SDT.
The opening of the investigation followed the completion of the investigation by the SDT, which formed the case after the new leadership filed a criminal complaint against Vukotić, Maraš, Mihailović and Miroslav Vuković, due to suspicions that by exploiting and abusing their position, they obtained multimillion-dollar illegal property benefits from the company "OMP Engineering".
During the preparation of business documents during the settlement procedure between "Plantaž" and "OMP Engineering" from March to April 2020, and after the failed deal with the briquette factory, the state company committed itself to the company, which they founded in 2009 Oleg Obradovic, Miodrag Ivanovic i Predrag Boskovic, who later went out of business, paid 350.000 euros and transferred ownership of 37.000 square meters of land in Donji Kokoti to them.
According to the contractual obligation, the company "OMP Engineering" undertook to transfer to "Plantaže" 50 percent of the share in the joint company "Plant OMP", which has never worked or generated any income.
During the voting at the then Board of Directors, the suspected members voted for such conclusion of the settlement, and the only member Only Jovićević, in front of the then shareholder of Podgorička banka, was against the contract that harms the state-owned company.
According to "Vijesti", Jovićević will be one of the witnesses in the further criminal proceedings.
SDT unofficially said that they proposed and then adopted the harmful settlement by a majority vote of the Board of Directors of "Plantaža" at the time, even though litigation between the two companies was ongoing before the Commercial Court in Podgorica for the purpose of compensation for damages according to the claim and counterclaim, and to which all evidence and expert testimony were in favor of the state-owned company with a history of over 55 years.
During the litigation before the Commercial Court, the experts stated that the value of the money and land transferred to the company "OMP Engineering" amounted to at least 1,4 million euros in damage to the state-owned company.
All released to defend themselves from freedom
Except for Anica Hajduković, special prosecutor Vukas Radonjić ordered the detention of all those arrested in the "Plantaže" operation after the hearing, and the High Court accepted his proposal and sent them to the Investigation Prison.
Vukotić, Mihailović and Perovič remained in the cells of Spuša prison until October 11, when the Supreme Court rejected the SDT's proposal to extend their detention.
Previously, Rajković and Šahman left the Investigation Prison.
Maraš remained in the Investigation Prison for two months, that is, until October 25, when she was released from the Spuša prison, because the SDT did not request an extension of detention for the former director of Plantaž after two months had passed.
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