Today, at the 44th session, the government formally complied with the ruling of the Administrative Court and returned Artan Kurti to the post of inspector general of the National Security Agency (ANB), only to dismiss him from that position again immediately after, at the 45th session of the executive power.
"News" confirmed this from several sources.
So far, only the announcement from the 44th session has been delivered to the media, in which it is stated that Predrag Burić, Kurti's successor in the chair of inspector general of the secret service, has been dismissed.
In mid-July, the Administrative Court annulled the decision of the executive authority on the dismissal of Kurti on the merits and in a dispute of full jurisdiction, after which he addressed the General Secretariat of the Government with a submission and asked to continue his mandate.
He reminded that the Administrative Court assessed that the disputed act of the Government is illegal and that the judgment annuls it, that is, it removes it from legal circulation.
"According to Article 8 of the Law on Administrative Disputes, decisions made in administrative disputes are binding," stated Kurti and warned the Government that non-execution of court decisions is a criminal offence.
His legal representative, lawyer Vaso Bečanović, told "Vijesta" that the Administrative Court has ruled on the merits of the administrative matter, so the case will no longer be returned to the executive authority for re-procedure.
"This means that the decision on the dismissal no longer exists, and the Prime Minister's proposal on the dismissal does not exist either, and therefore Artan Kurti continues to perform the function of inspector general, with all the rights and obligations he had on the day of the dismissal," Bečanović said in the middle July.
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