For now, three applications have been submitted to the Secretariat of the Prosecutor's Council for the public invitation for the acting supreme state prosecutor's office, "Vijesti" has learned.
According to "Vijesti", a lawyer joined the race for the position of acting director of VDT Milorad Miško Marković, who was officially on the TS list for the position of Supreme State Prosecutor in full term.
The special prosecutor also submitted the application to the TS Secretariat Sanja Jovićević, who is also a member of the Prosecutor's Council from among prosecutors.
Acting VDT Maja Jovanovic will not submit a candidacy for the acting position, because he does not have the right to apply during the competition period because there was no legal amendment as requested by the Prosecutor's Council, and then supported by the Government, so that after two six-month mandates he can also use a third in that position.
On January 43, the Prosecutor's Council announced a public invitation for those interested in performing the function of acting supreme state prosecutor, who meet the conditions prescribed by Article 25 of the Law on the State Prosecutor's Office, and gave a deadline of seven days for the submission of documentation.
In addition, TS requested that members of that body be provided from the Secretariat with a list of prosecutors who have the conditions to perform the position of VDT as provided for in Article 43 of the Law on the State Prosecutor's Office - general conditions for a state prosecutor, work experience of 15 years as a prosecutor or a judge or 20 years in other legal jobs, but also to be distinguished by professional impartiality, moral and professional qualities.
On February 5 last year, TS members first voted for two candidates, who responded to a public call for acting VDT - Drazen Burić i Aleksandar Kovačević, and since none of them received the majority of votes, that body decided to propose Maja Jovanović from the list of prosecutors, who at that time had over 15 years of work in the prosecutor's organization.
Protić in Special
At today's session, the Prosecutor's Council will state that, on January 26 of this year, they made a decision in electronic form to send a senior state prosecutor from Podgorica Jelena Protić in the Special State Prosecutor's Office for a period of two years.
Protić is the fourth prosecutor referred by the TS to the SDT, at the request of the chief special prosecutor Vladimir Novović, who asked for the help of prosecutors to work in cases that the prosecutor's office is handling.
Prosecutor Protić started in the ODT Podgorica in 2008, and was appointed to the position in September 2013, when she was elected as a deputy prosecutor in the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica, for a term of three years. At the end of 2015, she was elected to the position of prosecutor for a four-year term, and then in March of last year she was elected to the permanent position of state prosecutor in the ODT Podgorica.
After that, she applied for the TS competition for the Higher State Prosecutor's Office, and then on June 3, 2022, she was elected as the higher state prosecutor because she had the highest number of points in the interview.
During her career as a prosecutor, Protić attended a large number of trainings and seminars, and she participated in the work of two working groups for the drafting of regulations - the Protocol on handling, prevention and protection against violence against women and domestic violence and the Working Group for drafting the Draft Law on Amendments of the Law on Protection from Domestic Violence.
She is a member of the Coordinating Committee for the coordination, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and measures to prevent and combat all forms of violence included in the Istanbul Convention.
In June of last year, prosecutors were sent to the SDT for two years Vukas Radonjic, Jovan Vukotic i Tanja Čolan Deretic.
How much the GST trusts that trio is best shown by the fact that Radonjić and Vukotić handle the majority of organized crime and corruption cases, while Čolan Deretić is in charge of handling war crimes cases.
In the meantime, out of 12 special prosecutors, as many as there are according to the Rulebook on the internal organization and systematization of workplaces in the SDT, the prosecutor was dismissed at her own request Tatjana Žižić, while a special prosecutor was arrested on December 9 last year by order of the SDT Sasa Cadjenovic.
After the arrest, the Supreme Court temporarily removed Čađenović from the position of prosecutor.
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