Director of the Clinical Center of Montenegro (KCCG) Dr. Aleksandar Radović made a statement on Monday in the Special Police Department (SPO) regarding the hospital treatment of the detained former director of the Police Administration Veselin Veljović.
Radović confirmed to "Vijesta" that he gave a statement to the police as a citizen and that based on the doctor's report, he gave all the requested information and answered all the questions.
"When it comes to the accommodation of detainees and prisoners who are undergoing hospital treatment in the Clinical Center of Montenegro and who are under the supervision of the police forces, the practice is that they stay in separate rooms, separated from other patients. We remind you that most of the rooms in KCCG are triple or quadruple. Detainees and prisoners, by the way, when possible, are not accommodated with civilians so that they are not exposed to harassment and inconvenience. The separation of detainees and prisoners is, therefore, a practice, not for their sake, but for the comfort of the other patients", the KCCG wrote in the reply.
"Vijesti" announced that police officers are investigating whether there are abuses in the work of individual doctors in the system of the Clinical Center of Montenegro (KC), based on whose consular reports, Veljović was hospitalized for 22 days in that institution.
Police interest came after the accused Veljović was transferred to the Clinic for Neurology of the Clinical Center for treatment last week, where he was assigned a special hospital suite.
The fact that Veljović is being treated at a clinic, which is not in charge of treating his chronic illness, was an additional alarm that possibly the former police chief should not continue to be cared for in a hospital.
The police will determine during the further investigation, but also by examining the medical documentation, whether in the system of the KCCG, someone without a medical background writes hospital days to Veljović and allows privileges in the apartment of the Clinic for Neurology.
"It will be determined whether there are abuses by certain doctors", said a few days ago the interlocutor of "Vijesti" from the Police Administration. Due to his poor health, Veljović was transferred from the detention unit of the Administration for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions in Spuze on May 20 of this year and placed in the KCCG for treatment.
His lawyer Mikhail Volkov then he stated that Veljović's "health condition is at risk", and that they had been pointing this out for months.
Veljović sought medical help several times during his detention in Spuz due to a serious chronic illness, and he was also treated in a hospital in October 2023.
On October 19 last year, the prison service transferred Veljović to KCCG, after he fell ill, so he spent seven days in a hospital bed.
At the time, his lawyer claimed that Veljović was "being treated inhumanely", because, allegedly, during his treatment in the hospital, he spent time handcuffed to the bed, as a result of which he suffered "visible injuries on his hands".
"Veljović also has injuries on his hands. There is material evidence about this, which we will submit along with the criminal complaint to the competent prosecutor's office, because someone must be held accountable for that," said Volkov at the time.
For 22 days, the former director of the Police Administration, under the supervision of prison guards, is undergoing treatment at the Clinical Center of Montenegro.
The neurology clinic, where Veljović is now housed in a separate apartment, is one of the best equipped and arranged in the KC system, and after being expanded and renovated in 2021.
The former, long-time police chief, who was one of the key people in the security sector in the last three decades, was arrested on July 24 last year, by order of the Special State Prosecutor's Office, and has been in custody since then.
In January, the Special State Prosecutor's Office filed an indictment against 15 people, including Veljović, who is accused of abusing his official position for the benefit of a criminal organization formed by a fugitive from Nikšić. Aleksandar Aco Mrkic.
The criminal group of Mrkić, as SDT claims, has been involved in cigarette smuggling for years.
In May, the High Court confirmed the indictment against Mrkić's group and Veljović, whose detention was extended on several occasions.
At the hearing to confirm the indictment, Veljović denied guilt, stating that he believed it was a political-police persecution, and that he knew who ordered it.
He also claimed that the prosecution was knowingly endangering his health.
The indictment was also brought against Arsenij Kalezić, Muj Nikočević, Nikola Mrkić, Željko Bulatović, Dušica Bulatović, Predrag Veljić, Borislav Lečić, Nemanja Anđelković, Goran Gluščević, Nikola Bačilović, Sadig Elnagar, Nikola Bubanja and Stefan Bubanja.
He did not ask for a new council
Answering the questions of Vijesta, the Clinical Center of Montenegro announced that the director of that institution did not ask for the formation of a new council, which should decide on the continuation of the patient's hospital treatment.
"We are not in a position to publicly announce the details of this or any other separate case due to legal regulations, which protect personal data and information about health conditions, potential diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, as well as data from the medical records of any patient," they state. in response.
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