Brother, look at that item near me. Natalia. "Oh my god, what is she like," wrote the former president of the Supreme Court. Vesna Medenica to a former colleague Banimiru Femić December 24, 2018.
However, Femić, testifying before the Higher Court panel at the end of April 2025, stated under oath that the now-defendant Medenica had never been interested in any of his cases.
"Vesna Medenica never asked me for anything - God forbid, she was never interested in any subject from me, and she couldn't have," Femic said that day.
Answering the judge's question Vesne Kovačević, who presides over the three-member panel before which the proceedings are being conducted, whether Medenica sent him SMS or Viber messages regarding any of the cases, Femić replied:
"If there were messages between Medenica and me, we would certainly not be spared by the one who writes correspondences every now and then," alluding to the "Vijesti" journalist.
The request for Femic to "see the case with Natalija" was not the only message he received from his former boss.
In the evidence seized from the phone of the former President of the Supreme Court, the number +38267249**5 was saved as "Braco Femić", and Medenica exchanged numerous messages with that number, including those of a personal and professional nature, as well as those about cases.
According to data on registered users of Crnogorski Telekom, that number is still registered to Branimir Femić.
In addition to the case she was interested in at the end of 2018, Medenica sent a message to Judge Femić on July 2, 2019:
“See Rev. 710/20”.
Despite this, Femić, during his testimony before the Panel of Judges Vesne Kovačević, never once mentioned the existence of such correspondence.
The case that Medenica was interested in in the summer of 2019 relates to a labor dispute between VV, former director of the Crnogorska Komercijalna Banka and that bank.
This Podgorica resident had been employed at CKB for an indefinite period of time, as a director, since June 1, 2011, but was dismissed on November 29, 2018, while on sick leave, because he refused to conclude an annex to the employment contract relating to his assignment to another suitable job. Although the Basic and Higher Courts in Podgorica annulled the dismissal decision, but did not accept the part of the lawsuit that requested his reinstatement to the position of director, the Supreme Court accepted the revision and ordered them to discuss the matter again...
SDT is silent, but announces messages
The Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) has not responded to Vijesti's questions since April 29 - whether they determined during the investigation whether Femić was using the phone number +38267249**5, or whether they asked the former judge to comment on the messages he received from Medenica on December 24, 2018, and July 2, 2019.
The questions also remained unanswered as to whether Femic and other witnesses in the proceedings against the criminal group that, according to the prosecution, was formed by Vesna Medenica's son, Milos Medenica, mostly judges who changed their testimony, file criminal charges for giving false testimony and/or some other criminal offense.
Giving false testimony before a court, as defined in Article 389 of the Criminal Code, is punishable by imprisonment for up to three years, and if the lie is told in criminal proceedings, by imprisonment for three months to five years.
During one of the previous hearings, the special prosecutor Jovan Vukotic, who, with his colleague Vukas Radonjić, is representing the SDT indictment filed against Miloš Medenica's criminal group, has asked the panel for additional time to submit written evidence related to messages from Vesna Medenica's phone, exchanged with witnesses in the proceedings who have already testified...
The prosecution charges Miloš Medenica with creating 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:
"And for the purpose of acquiring illegal profit and power."
According to the prosecution's files, Miloš Medenica, in complicity with the accused members of the criminal organization, evaded customs supervision measures and smuggled cigarettes from the Free Customs Zone of the Port of Bar using false documentation and bribing customs officials.
In addition to Miloš and Vesna Medenica, the indictment also includes former police officers and bodyguards of the former President of the Supreme Court. Darko Lalović i Milorad Medenica, customs officers Ivana Kovačević i Goran Jovanovic, freight forwarders Marjan Bevenja i Stevo Karanikic, then Vasilije Petrović, Bojan i Marko Popovic, Marko Vučinić, Port of Bakoč, Petar Milutinović, Nikola i Radomir Raičević and the company “Kopad Company”.
They are charged with criminal offenses - creating a criminal organization, smuggling, giving and receiving bribes and exerting unlawful influence and inducing unlawful influence, abuse of official position, drug smuggling, illegal possession of weapons, causing serious bodily harm and preventing evidence.
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