The Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) filed an indictment against the accused judge of the High Court in Bijelo Polje, Dragan Mrdak, due to the existence of reasonable suspicion that he committed the criminal acts of abuse of official position and falsification of an official document through incitement, for which a prison sentence of up to five years is prescribed.
The spokesman of the SDT, special prosecutor Vukas Radonjić, announced that the DM was accused of having, in April of this year, in the High Court in Bijelo Polje, by unlawfully using his official position and authority, obtained another's benefit: "Because, as a judge reporter, which was assigned a second-instance case in criminal proceedings and a member of the three-judge panel, and after a unanimous verdict was reached at the panel session on March 8 of this year that the appeal of the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Kolašin should be accepted and that the first-instance verdict of the Basic of the court in Kolašin changed the part of the decision on the sentence, so that instead of the first-instance sentence of imprisonment, which is to be served in the living quarters, the defendants LB and DR will be sentenced to nine months in prison each, drafted a written judgment in which the first-instance verdict is changed by according to the defendants, the charge for the criminal offense of abuse of position in business operations is rejected, because the absolute statute of limitations for criminal prosecution has expired, and in the official document - the minutes of deliberation and voting, false information was entered that the council made a decision that the absolute statute of limitations for criminal prosecution had occurred and that the prosecution refuses, even though he knew what decision the panel made and that the Criminal Code of Montenegro stipulates that criminal prosecution does not expire for the criminal offense of abuse of position in business operations, so he benefited the defendants LB and DR by preventing their final conviction effective imprisonment and the occurrence of its legal consequences," said Radonjić.
He explained that the defendant was being blamed and that he deliberately encouraged the defendant SM, the recorder in the court, to enter untrue information in the official book, so she, accepting the order of the defendant, without the knowledge of the other members of the council, entered in the book of the council sessions: "In which keeps records of every session of the council, she applied a white liquid concealer over the written decision made by the council, and over it she wrote in her own hand that the council made a decision "to reject the charge due to the statute of limitations", although she knew that such a decision had not been made ".
"The indictment accuses the defendant of having committed the criminal offense of falsifying an official document, which is punishable by up to five years in prison," explained Radonjić.
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