The Ministry of Justice annulled 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 record for the criminal offense, by which he was finally convicted by the decision of the High Court in Podgorica in September 2009.
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The Ministry of Justice initiated the procedure for mandatory annulment of the decision, because they claim 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 a statement to "Vijesta" 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 criminal act of falsifying a document, because in today's decision, the minister's institutional number 01, which was written in previous acts, no longer appears , but the reference number of the Directorate is UPI-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 UPI office business. In addition, I repeat, that there can be no obvious mistakes in the signature, stamp and name and surname, and the minister is trying to represent that it is only a mistake in the signature of the facsimile, and not the stamp and the name and surname, and the address", says 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."
"So 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 realize his intention and bear criminal and civil responsibility. The very presentation of data from the criminal records on November 9, 11 on the M portal, and the report submitted against the female MP officials on November 2023, 10, and the very circumstance by which the report for allegedly illegal deletion was rejected, indicates the bad intention and personal level of the Minister of Justice according to me", claims the former inspector general of 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 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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