The trial of the former President of the Supreme Court of Montenegro, Vesna Medenica, her son Miloš Medenica and other defendants continued today at the Higher Court in Podgorica with the reading of written evidence.
Defendant Vojin Perunović, who was the reason for the postponement of the main trial yesterday, came to today's trial. He submitted documentation through his lawyer that he could not attend the trial due to health problems.
As written evidence, bills of lading, cigarette cargo papers, shipping documents, and customs documents were read.
Special State Prosecutor Jovan Vukotić reacted after the presentation of written evidence of the gift contract.
"I notice that the legal entity 'Kopad Company', suspected of being part of a criminal organization, failed to "throw away" the cigarettes in question, and is giving them away, and the goods are worth millions," Vukotić pointed out.
Attorney Bojana Asanović, defense attorney for defendant Luka Bakoč, objected to the evidence presented. She pointed out that there was no signature on the gift contract of the company "Kopad Kompany".
"There is no company address, no PIB, the contract was not signed by an authorized person of the company. This is not Luka Bakoč's signature, I may also propose an expert assessment during the procedure," Asanović stated.
The Special State Prosecutor's Office has filed an indictment against the defendants Miloš and Vesna Medenica, Darko Lalović, Vasilije Petrović, Bojan and Marko Popović, Marko Vučinić, Milorad Medenica, Luka Bakoč, Petar Milutinović, Ivana Kovačević, Radomir Raičević, Marjan Bevenja, Stevo Karanikić and Goran Jovanović and the company "Kopad Company", for the criminal offenses of creating a criminal organization, smuggling, giving and receiving undue influence and inducing unlawful influence, abuse of official position, drug smuggling, illegal possession of weapons, causing serious bodily harm and preventing the production of evidence.
Miloš Medenica is accused of having created a criminal organization in 2019, whose members included his mother Vesna and other defendants, with the aim of smuggling cigarettes and illegally influencing the judiciary, in order to gain illegal profit and power. It is alleged that, in complicity with the defendant members of the criminal organization, he smuggled cigarettes from the Free Customs Zone of the Port of Bar, avoiding customs supervision measures, using false documentation and bribing customs officials.
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