The Special State Prosecutor's Office submitted documentation to the Prosecutorial Council (TS) after the former Chief Special Prosecutor Milivoje Katnić initiated a procedure for compensation of damages before the Agency for Peaceful Resolution of Disputes.
The former GST's position ended on February 17, 2022, because the TS stated that he had fulfilled the conditions for retirement.
With the lawsuit, Katnić requested the payment of a salary supplement for overtime hours, but on the basis of readiness for January 2022. He also asked for the payment of the difference in salary he receives after the termination of his position with default interest.
Supreme State Prosecutor Milorad Marković at the beginning of the session of the Prosecutor's Council mentioned the key priorities in order to speed up the process of reforms and the fulfillment of the temporary standards in chapters 23 and 24.
He mentioned that a public debate is underway on the document Strategy for the Reform of the Judiciary, as well as changes to the Law on the State Prosecutor's Office.
Marković emphasized that TS must first address the lack of prosecutors as soon as possible.
The prosecution organization currently lacks 56 prosecutors.
Marković said that the focus will be on the formation of common positions that will lead to the prosecution organization being as efficient as possible, and to finding solutions that will enable the TS to work more efficiently.
The VDT emphasized that it expects the maximum engagement of TS members, as well as all prosecutors, in order to have quality solutions and results as much as possible.
The head of the prosecutor's organization stated that tomorrow he will have a meeting with all the heads of the prosecutor's offices, and that he plans to visit all the headquarters soon.
The Prosecutor's Council decided that the only candidate for the president of the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Ulcinj, Denis Zvrko, should be elected to that position.
The decision was made unanimously.
The Prosecutor's Council adopted the report of the complaints commission, which included five complaints, and then another one in which the opinions of the commission were adopted for three more complaints.
VDT proposed that Stevo Muk and Miloš Vuksanović be representatives of the prosecutor's organization in the working group of the Ministry of Justice, which is working on amending the Law on the State Prosecutor's Office.
Marković requested that a decision be made immediately to announce public advertisements for 11 prosecutor's positions for basic, and four positions to fill the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica.
That was unanimously accepted by TS.
He emphasized that there is a lack of prosecutors at all levels.
Marković said that at the moment, 2,4 million or 800.000 thousand are missing for ODT Podgorica only for gross wages if all the positions stipulated in the Decision on the number of prosecutors were to be filled.
"We will have problems how to fill the empty positions but also to find money for salaries. The big question is how much we will be able to do all this this year. If there is a budget rebalancing, we will ask for the money we need," said Marković.
He also informed that so far nothing has been done regarding the move of the SDT to the old government building, because first the government has to find money and a way to move the authorities that are now in that space.
The Prosecutor's Council is aware that the judicial inspection found deficiencies in the advertisement from the secretary of the TS Secretariat.
Marković suggested, and TS confirmed, that the ad be withdrawn.
TS member Siniša Gazivoda finally asked for information from the new VDT and TS president whether the reports on KTN cases had been completed, because TS gave a long deadline for submitting all reports.
Deputy Secretary of the TS Secretariat Mithat Kuč said that reports were submitted by all but ODT Podgorica.
"They informed us that they will do it by mid-February," Kuč said.
During October, TS learned that at least 1.000 unlit "live" cases had been languishing for years in the archives of the Basic State Prosecutor's Office (ODT) in Podgorica, and that none of the prosecutors had ever been tasked with working on them.
This was disclosed by the member Siniš Gazivoda, emphasizing that they received the startling information in the letter of the current head of the Podgorica ODT, Duško Milanović, dated September 29, 2023.
The Prosecutor's Office enters unsolved cases of unknown effect in its internal registers under - KTN.
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