Control of the indictment in the "Apartments" case postponed to October 11

The Podgorica High Court postponed today the review of the indictment in the "Apartments" case until October 11.

The president of the extrajudicial panel, judge Boris Savić, said that the hearing will not take place due to the justified request of Velibor Marković's lawyer to postpone it.

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.

The indictment states that by awarding apartments and favorable loans, as members of the former commission of the Government of Montenegro, they damaged the state budget by around 2.604.000 euros.

The Special State Prosecutor's Office filed an immediate indictment against Predrag Bošković, Budimir Šegrt and ten other officials of the former government due to the basic suspicion that they abused their official position due to the allocation of apartments and housing loans as members of the former commission of the Government of Montenegro.

They are suspected of having damaged the budget of Montenegro by two million and 600 thousand euros.

The spokesman of the SDT, prosecutor 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 the defendants Predrag 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 suspicions that, in the period from 2016 to 2020, as members of the Commission for Housing Affairs of the Government of Montenegro Gore, as a co-perpetrator, committed the extended criminal offense of abuse of official position, for which a prison sentence of two to 12 years is prescribed.

"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 housing conditions, that can grant a loan to improve 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 work assessed by the expert committee of the then Property Administration, without a plan for solving housing needs and assessment by the expert committee of the Administration, approved and granted housing loans for improvement of living 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.