The Ministry of Justice overturned the decision from June 2020, when the verdict for the former inspector general of the National Security Agency, Artan Kurti, was deleted from the criminal records and his name was re-entered in that register, it was confirmed to "Vijesta" from several sources.
The Directorate for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions and the Control of Criminal and Misdemeanor Records opened at the end of March the administrative procedure for the mandatory annulment of the decision of the Ministry of Justice from June 8, 2020, when the decision was made to delete Kurti from the criminal records for the criminal offense, by which he was convicted by a final decision of the High Court in Podgorica in September 2009.
The Ministry of Justice initiated the procedure for mandatory annulment of the decision because they believe that "in accordance with Article 100 of the Law on Administrative Procedure, the conditions for initiating the procedure ex officio have been met."
Artan Kurti in his statement to "Vijesti" assessed that the decision of the Ministry of Justice is "scandalous".
"In today's decision, the Ministry of Justice confirmed that the Minister of Justice Andrej Milović and the head of the Directorate for Criminal and Misdemeanor Records, Dijana Šćekić, as co-perpetrators, committed the crime of falsifying documents, because in today's decision, the minister's reference number 01, which was written in previous acts, no longer appears. rather, the reference number of the UPI Directorate is 0704-030/24-527. So, now there is the reference number that I warned about from the beginning in accordance with Article 34 of the Instructions on how to conduct office business. In addition, I repeat, there can be no obvious mistakes in signature, seal and name and surname, and the minister is trying to represent that it is only a facsimile signature mistake, and not a seal and name and surname and address," said Kurti.
He claims that the Minister of Justice "did not allow him to inspect the case files in accordance with Art. 16 and 68 of the Law on Administrative Procedure, as well as to hire an attorney in accordance with Article 56 of the Law on Administrative Procedure."
"Well, the intentions of the Minister of Justice are clear. The decision is scandalous, so the minister will have the opportunity through the reasons in the lawsuit and the amendment of the criminal complaint to see his intention and to bear criminal and civil responsibility. It is precisely the presentation of data from the criminal record on 9.11.2023 November 10.11.2023 on M portal, and the report submitted against the female MP officials on November XNUMX, XNUMX, and the very circumstance by which the report for alleged illegal deletion was rejected, indicates the bad intention and personal level of the Minister of Justice towards me," claims the former inspector general of the ANB.
On November 11 last year, the Ministry of Justice submitted a criminal complaint to the Special State Prosecutor's Office against the former head of the Directorate for Criminal and Misdemeanor Records, Tanja Popović, and the former general director of the Directorate for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions, Nataša Radonjić, due to the decision by which Kurti's conviction was deleted from the records.
On March 11, Special Prosecutor Zoran Vučinić issued a decision dismissing the criminal complaint stating that there is no reasonable suspicion that they have committed any criminal offense that is being prosecuted ex officio.
Vučinić informed the MoJ with the dismissal decision that the SDT, in accordance with the provisions of Article 139 paragraph 1 point 1 of the ZUP, considers that the conditions for the mandatory annulment of the decision by which Kurti was deleted from the criminal record in June 2020 have been met, since it was adopted, as it is stated, "in administrative proceedings from matters within the jurisdiction of the court, and the deadline for annulment of the decision is 10 years from the date of execution"...
On November 9, 2023, the government dismissed Kurti from the post of ANB inspector general, after which he filed a lawsuit in the Administrative Court because he believes that the executive branch did it in an illegal way.
The Administrative Court overturned the Government's decision when Kurti was relieved of his duties as inspector general in the ANB and sent the case back to the Government for retrial.
After that, the Government again issued a decision on the dismissal of Kurti, justifying that they have the "discretionary right to appoint and dismiss the inspector general who is responsible for their work"...
Artan Kurti announced a new lawsuit due to the Government's decision, claiming that they retroactively apply the amended Law on ANB, the changes of which came after his departure from the secret service.
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