The Prosecutor's Office should investigate whether there is any Vesna Medenica still access to secret data, but also her publicly expressed intention to use it for personal purposes.
This was announced to "Vijesti" by the director of the MANS Research Center Dejan Milovac, commenting the statement of the former President of the Supreme Court that, when the time comes, she will speak about what she found out in office through wiretapping of individuals, including those in government positions.
"For 13 years, by law, I was exclusively responsible for signing secret surveillance measures that came from the National Security Agency. And I proposed some measures when I was a prosecutor. It will be interesting one day, because I am a witness to all that, so that I can say something about what I have seen. When that time will come, it's a matter of my decision," she said in the program "Nachisto" on Television Vijesti.
Without specifying who and what it was about, she then added: "Interestingly, someone who is now flaming and burning with this judicial system also got caught up in those measures"...
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According to the Law on the National Security Agency, that service is enabled to collect secret data, among other things through monitoring and observation, as well as monitoring of electronic communications and postal shipments...
The supervision of that work, based on a reasoned written proposal of the Agency's director, is approved by decision of the President of the Supreme Court for each individual case...
Responding to the "News", Milovac questions her TV appearance from two aspects:
"Her statement regarding secret surveillance measures and what she owns is interesting for two reasons. First, how is it possible that someone who is no longer in that position, and whom the prosecution accuses of serious criminal acts, still has access to that data and publicly expresses a clear intention to use it in accordance with what her personal interests will be in the future. And the second thing is, what was hinted somewhere through her statement, is that the misuse of that data would be for the purpose of her defense and for the purpose of discovering, I assume, some illegal actions".
Milovac stated that the question arises - whether the prosecution could tolerate the fact that Medenica potentially has information about the violation of the law by one of the entities that were under secret surveillance measures.
"And he doesn't use that data the way he should use it - he hands it over to the prosecutor's office in some procedure, but keeps it for himself and for some of his private agenda. And he uses them in relation to what will be some subsequent court and prosecutorial proceedings. We can freely say blackmailing someone who should be blackmailed", added the program director of the Network for the Affirmation of the Non-Governmental Sector.
Milovac said that he cannot guess to whom the information Medenica talks about refers, bearing in mind that for the last more than 15 years, she has been mostly in the judiciary and in the prosecutor's office.
"And that during that period she communicated with a huge number of prosecutors and judges. I think that we should look for an answer to that question in the next course of the procedure and what the prosecution will charge her and the people who will be involved in that complete procedure", he assessed.
Vesna Medenica is accused of being part of a criminal organization formed by her son Milos Medenica. The Special State Prosecutor's Office charges that multi-member group with numerous criminal offenses - creation of a criminal organization, smuggling, giving and receiving bribes, illegal influence, abuse of official position, drug smuggling...
In that prosecutor's document, among other things, it is written that Medenica accepted bribes in order to influence court verdicts, but also pressured her colleagues to make decisions in favor of those she urges, regardless of the state of the files...
Member of Parliament and leader of the Democratic People's Party (DNP) Milan Knezevic, on the X network, wrote that Vesna Medenica "in her best form so far", declared in front of Montenegro that she had taken secret surveillance measures with her that were supposed to be destroyed.
"And that she 'caught' the chief special prosecutor on them Vladimir Novović", Knežević wrote.
Answers pending
The Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) did not tell "Vijesti" whether they are verifying Medeniča's allegations, or whether she has data collected through secret surveillance measures while she was in office. The question remained unanswered - whether they asked the Supreme Court for a report on the measures that were implemented while the president of that court was Medenica...
From the Supreme Court, they announced to the news yesterday that they will answer the questions regarding that case.
Medenica, from the position of president of the Supreme Court, but also after she left office, communicated with numerous judges, prosecutors and state officials...
On the "agenda" were often questions of court or prosecutorial cases, but she was also interested in which prosecutor was acting on the reports she was interested in, she demanded postponement of the execution of the sentence, "ordered" detention...
She asked individual judges what kind of decision they should make, regardless of the state of the files...
All this is shown by the correspondence found in her phone, confiscated after Medenica was arrested on suspicion of abusing her official position and being part of her son's criminal group...
In a separate proceeding, the Special State Prosecutor's Office is checking whether there are criminal offenses in the messages it exchanged with judges, prosecutors, state officials, the current and former director of the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption...
What does the law say...
If there are grounds for suspicion that a person alone or in complicity with another has committed, is committing or is preparing to commit criminal acts, and evidence cannot be gathered in any other way or their gathering would require a disproportionate risk or endangering people's lives, according to them, determine secret surveillance measures.
This includes, among other things, secret surveillance and recording of telephone conversations and other remote communications, interception, collection and recording of computer data, entry into premises for secret photography and video and audio recording in the premises, secret monitoring and video and audio recording of faces and subject.
What did Katnić take with him?
Milovac said that our society, but above all the prosecutor's office, never dealt with what "for example, Milivoje Katnić took with him when he left office".
"Does Milivoje Katnić also have any data from the Sky application, which, it turns out, he hid from the public and authorities for months, and what kind of data he naturally took with him. This is indicative," the program director of the Network for the Affirmation of the Non-Governmental Sector told "Vijesta"...
Monitoring and observation
The National Security Agency is authorized to secretly collect data by cooperating with Montenegrin citizens and foreigners, monitoring and observation, using technical means for documentation, purchasing documents and objects.
"By monitoring electronic communications and postal items, monitoring the interior of buildings, closed spaces and objects with the use of technical means", it is stated in the Law on ANB.
It is added that an official of the Agency, in the application of one of these means, can use an official document or mark that serves to conceal his identity, as well as the identity of the person with whom secret cooperation has been established.
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