The hearing for the control of the indictment in the "Apartments" case was postponed today in the High Court in Podgorica to September 13, after one of the defense attorneys asked for additional time to familiarize himself with the case files.
Lawyer Miloš Vuksanović suggested in a letter to the court that the hearing be postponed, because he was recently hired as the defense attorney for the defendant Jelena Radonjić.
Lawyer Zoran Piperović told reporters that this indictment will be confirmed on September 13 and explained that only ten days had passed since the indictment was filed and the control hearing was scheduled.
"This is to confirm this indictment," he said and added that the court will not even read the indictment.
In the High Court in Podgorica, the inspection of that act by the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) was scheduled for today, and the non-trial panel is chaired by Judge Boris Savić, President of the High Court.
Independent consultant for public relations Marija Raković previously confirmed to "Vijesta" that one of the defense attorneys sent a letter to the court proposing to postpone the scheduled hearing, because he was recently engaged in that case, so he needs time to prepare his defense.
The indictment was brought against the official of the Democratic Party of Socialists, Predrag Bošković, whom the SDT, along with 12 other people, suspects of abusing his official position.
All the accused are former members of the Government Commission for Housing Issues.
The indictment states that they, as members of the former commission of the Government of Montenegro, damaged the state budget by around 2.604.000 euros by illegally allocating apartments and favorable loans.
The Special State Prosecutor's Office filed an immediate indictment against Bošković, Budimir Šegrt, Suad Numanović, Sanja Vlahović, Ivan Brajović, Dražen Miličković, Damir Šehović, Dragica Sekulić, Osman Nurković, Suzana Pribilović, Jelena Radonjić and Aleksandar Jovićević, due to the existence of well-founded suspicion that, in the period from 2016 to 2020, as members of the Commission for Housing Affairs of the Government of Montenegro, as co-perpetrators, committed the extended criminal offense of abuse of official position, for which a prison sentence of two to 12 years is prescribed.
EUR 2.604.000 is the amount of damage caused by former members of the government's Commission for Housing Issues through the illegal allocation of apartments and soft loans, according to the indictment of the Special State Prosecutor's Office, which has not yet been confirmed
Special prosecutor and SDT spokesman Vukas Radonjić announced earlier that the Special Department for Trials of Criminal Offenses of Organized Crime, Corruption, Terrorism and War Crimes of the High Court in Podgorica submitted an immediate indictment against those defendants.
"The defendants are charged with the fact that, contrary to the Decision on the method and criteria for solving the housing needs of officials, which stipulated that the solution of housing needs is realized according to the plan for solving housing needs that contains the amount of funds for granting loans to improve living conditions, that can grant a loan for the improvement of housing conditions in the amount of up to 15.000 euros, and that the amount of the loan is determined based on the scope of works assessed by the expert committee of the then Administration for Property, without a plan for solving housing needs and assessment by the expert committee of the Administration, approved and granted housing loans for improvement of housing conditions for 119 public officials and employees in state bodies and state administration bodies, in amounts between 17.500 and 40.000 euros, thus benefiting them and causing damage to the budget of Montenegro, in the total amount of 2.604,740,59 euros. Radonjić explained then.
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