Yesterday morning, police officers unsuccessfully searched for the accused at his home address Saša Čađenović, not knowing that the High Court allowed him to temporarily leave the residence due to family obligations.
The High Court and the Police Administration did not respond to the News' questions about the case, or why the institution it manages Zoran Brđanin she was not informed of the court's decision.
Čađenović had to leave the apartment due to a one-year memorial service to a close family member.
"Sasa Čađenović is approved, according to which surveillance measures were determined by the decision of the High Court in Podgorica Kvs. no. 477/24 of 11 July 7, namely: ban on leaving the apartment and the premises that are functionally connected to the apartment, which has controlled by electronic surveillance, at the address... in Podgorica, where the accused must reside while this measure lasts and during which time he must not leave the premises of the place of residence, except for at the invitation of the court, that he can temporarily leave the apartment in order to mark the one-year commemoration... in the village of Brskut, Municipality of Podgorica, on September 2024, 12, from 9:2024 a.m. to 08,00:18,00 p.m.," states the decision of the High Court, which he presides over Zoran Radovic.
However, until the end of this issue of Vijesti, they did not answer the questions - whether they informed the Police Directorate about the approval of Čađenović, whose officers are in charge of checking whether the former special prosecutor complies with the imposed court measures...
Even the Police Administration did not answer whether and how often their officers check whether Čađenović is complying with the measure of the ban on leaving the apartment, i.e. house arrest.
"If so, did the officers of the UP check whether Čađenović was in his apartment this morning and did they find him there? If he was not found there, was the competent state authority informed about it - the High Court in Podgorica", were some of the questions asked by Vijesti journalists.
An unofficial source of Vijesti from that service said that police officers made a regular visit to Čađenović, who is under house arrest, but that they did not find him.
"We blocked everything, but it was later determined that Čađenović had approval. However, no one informed us about this beforehand", said the newspaper's interlocutor from the top of the Police Administration.
At the beginning of August, the news was told from UP that officials of that institution visit those who have been sentenced to house arrest several times a day, stating that it has not yet happened that any of the former officials, such as the director of the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (ASK) Jelena Perović or the former first man of the Veselin Veljović police administration, violates that measure.
"Not a single person who has been ordered to leave the apartment and the premises has violated the order until this moment," claimed the police administration.
They specified then that "police officers visit the places of residence of persons who have been placed under house arrest every day, and several times, on which official notes are made and records are kept."
"Officials of the Police Administration engaged in the part of monitoring the implementation of surveillance measures adopted by state authorities, in accordance with planned activities, undertake measures and actions within their competence in order to monitor them", said the UP.
The law allows the court to send the defendant home, but with the control of his movement using the so-called nanogica.
The Podgorica High Court recently told "Vijesti" that in a large number of cases they are forced to order the defendants into custody due to the lack of technical conditions for controlling those who are banned from leaving the apartment.
They announced this in response to questions about the measures prescribed by the Criminal Procedure Act (CPC), when there is a possibility of obstruction of the criminal procedure in the event of the escape of the accused.
"Namely, the above-mentioned measure of surveillance with control by electronic surveillance is provided by law as a means of ensuring the smooth conduct of the proceedings, by the previously cited legal provision, and as such is an excellent substitute for custody, as the most severe measure of restriction of freedom, however, in the absence of technical conditions for its implementation, the court is forced to order custody in a large number of cases", the court said earlier.
They explained then that it is known that the Ministry of Justice has electronic devices for monitoring the execution of prison sentences in residential premises: "While the devices for monitoring surveillance measures have not yet been provided, according to the information at the disposal of this court, which we believe is really necessary to ensure how these measures would also be applicable in practice", explained the High Court in Podgorica.
The Criminal Procedure Act provides alternative measures to custody, if "there are circumstances that indicate that the defendant could escape, hide, go to an unknown place or to another country, or obstruct the conduct of criminal proceedings"...
He was behind bars from December 2022 to July 2024
In mid-July, Čađenović's detention was lifted, where he had been practically since his arrest in December 2022.
He was then released, but with a ban on leaving the apartment.
He was deprived of his liberty on suspicion of having committed a criminal offense - the creation of a criminal organization and several criminal offenses of abuse of official position.
The Special State Prosecutor's Office suspects him of having subordinated his official activities to the interests of the Kavac criminal clan, headed by Radoj Zvicer.
In October of last year, the non-judicial panel of the High Court in Podgorica confirmed the indictment against him.
The indictment presented that during the second half of 2020 he became a member of a criminal organization created by Switzerland on the territory of several countries and that the activities of the criminal organization had an influence on the state prosecution.
"In which the defendant Saša Čađenović, as a special prosecutor, together with other members of the criminal organization from the Police Directorate, in order to realize the criminal plan, accepted to carry out the orders and instructions of the organizers of the criminal organization, which were transmitted to him through other members of the criminal organization, to cover up the perpetrators of the most serious crimes acts and does not initiate criminal proceedings against them," the indictment states, among other things.
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