The hearing in the Plantaže case was postponed due to the preparation of the defense

The hearing for the review of the indictment, which was scheduled today in the High Court in Podgorica, in the Plantaže case, was postponed to June 16.

The president of the extrajudicial panel, Judge Boris Savić, accepted the proposal of lawyer Ivana Španjević to postpone the hearing.

She stated that the defendant Sead Šahman did not receive the indictment, which the defendant confirmed today.

The hearing was adjourned to prepare the defense.

Special state prosecutor Vukas Radonjić opposed the postponement.

Judge Savić asked the defendant if he could not get an indictment from three of his defense attorneys.

The defendants Vukotić, Đorđe Rajković and Verica Maraš did not come to the hearing, although their presence is not mandatory during the review of the indictment.

The Special State Prosecutor's Office previously filed an indictment against six former managers in "Plantaže" who are charged with the criminal offense of abuse of position in business operations. The defendants are Veselin Vukotić, Đorđije Rajković, Sead Šahman, Duško Perović, Božo Mihailović and Verica Maraš.

"They are accused that from December 24, 2019 to April 23, 2020 in Podgorica, as responsible persons in the damaged company 13. Jul-Plantaže AD, they abused their position in terms of disposing of other people's property and did not perform their duty, so they obtained from the business company "OMP-Engineering" DOO an illegal financial benefit exceeding the amount of forty thousand euros, and caused property damage to the injured party," said special prosecutor and SDT spokesman Vukas Radonjić earlier.

As a result of the partial execution of an obviously harmful settlement, the company "OMP Engineering" received an illegal property benefit in the amount of 384.672,40 euros, and the injured company suffered damage.

For the criminal offense of abuse of position in business, which is the subject of the indictment, the law prescribes a prison sentence of two to ten years.

"The special police department, by order of the state prosecutor, and in accordance with the Law on confiscation of the proceeds of crime, undertakes measures and actions to detect and identify the proceeds of crime, in order to eventually launch a financial investigation against the defendants. I especially emphasize that , according to the Code of Criminal Procedure, state bodies, media, citizens' associations, public figures and other persons are obliged to adhere to the presumption of innocence, and not to offend other procedural rules, the rights of the accused and the injured party with their public statements about the ongoing criminal proceedings and the principle of judicial independence," he stated then.