The Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) concluded the investigation in the case against the accused former members of the board of directors and the executive director of "Plantaža - July 13", so it is expected that the indictment will soon be submitted for control to the Specialized Division of the High Court in Podgorica.
"Vijesti" learned that the acting prosecutor is Vukas Radonjic ended the investigation after the economic and financial experts provided him with a complete report and opinion, which they did according to the order of the Special State Prosecutor's Office.
The investigation in the case was supposed to be completed by January 15 of this year, but then the legal deadline of six months was broken because the SDT was waiting for the experts to submit their findings.
On July 11, 2022, officers of the Special Police Department, by order of the SDT, arrested the members of the board of directors Veselin Vukotić, Boža Mihailović, Djordje Rajković, Sead Shahman, Duško Perović i Anica Hajduković, who were accused of abuse of position in business during the conclusion of the settlement agreement with the company "OMP Engineering".
Hajduković was released on the same day, and the SDT later suspended the investigation against her, while Vukotić, Mihailović, Rajković, Šahman and Perović were in the Investigation Prison in Spuz for months.
On August 25, SDT expanded the investigation during which the former executive director was arrested Verica Marash due to the suspicion that she abused her position in business operations, i.e. that she caused damage to "Plantaža" of around five million euros...
Investigation of malfeasance in "Plantaže-13. July " started after the new management filed a criminal complaint with the SDT, claiming that the former members of the board of directors, by exploiting their official position, i.e. by abusing their position in business operations, obtained illegal property benefits for others, and caused damage to the company.
When the SDT opened an investigation and issued an arrest warrant, that institution announced that the suspected members of the board of directors had committed a criminal offense - abuse of position in business operations...
"Because as members of the board of directors, they made a 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", announced SDT.
At the end of August, the investigation was expanded, and then the officers of the Special Police Department, on the order of the SDT, in the "Plantaža" building, handcuffed the former executive director Verica Maraš, whom the prosecution suspected of being involved in the conclusion of a harmful out-of-court settlement. between "Plantaž" and the company "OMP Engineering", in connection with the joint production of briquettes and the establishment of a joint factory of briquettes, which never started working...
During the preparation of business documents during the settlement procedure between "Plantaž" and "OMP Engineering", and after the failed deal with the briquette factory, the state company undertook to provide the company, which was 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.
SDT previously unofficially said that they had proposed and then adopted the harmful settlement by the majority 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. in which all the evidence and statements of experts were in favor of the state company.
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. According to experts, "Plantaže" should have received compensation of around 3,5 million euros, but they agreed to compensate the opposite party with 1,4 million. The value of the ceded salary, estimated at a little over a million euros at the time, is also questionable.
In 2009, the company "Plantaže", Montenegrin pride for decades, announced a public call in which they were looking for a partner for the briquette factory. "OMP Engineering", a company that was founded exactly three days after the announcement of the advertisement, responded.
In July 2011, a ceremonial opening of the factory was organized - in front of the cameras, the red ribbon was cut by the then mayor of Podgorica Miomir Mugoš and Verica Maraš. Despite the big plans, the production of briquettes was never started even though "Plantaže" and a private company invested 1.467.029,02 euros in money and land in the factory, while the contribution of "OMP Engineering" was 1.278.674,47 euros.
In 2014, "OMP Engineering" initiated a lawsuit against "Plantaž", where at the beginning a compensation of six million euros was requested, claiming that "Plantaž" offered low-quality vines and in insufficient quantities, while this state-owned company subsequently initiated a counterclaim, claiming that "OMP Engineering" installed equipment in the joint factory that is not suitable for grapevine processing.
During the proceedings in the Commercial Court, an expert in the field of mechanical engineering Goran Dedic made a finding in favor of "Plantaž". He determined that the equipment of "OMP Engineering", which was their stake, could not be used in that type of production at all.
Despite this opinion of the expert, the former management of "Plantaž" initiated the settlement procedure in 2020...
The judge in the multi-year dispute before the Commercial Court was the arrested former president Blazo Jovanić, who has been in custody since May last year.
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