The Supreme Court of Montenegro has rejected as inadmissible the appeal filed by the defense attorneys of the defendants Saša Boreta, Ljubo Bigović, Ljubo Vujadinović and Milan Čilo Šćekić against the decision of the Court of Appeal of Montenegro on the extension of detention, the Supreme Court announced today.
"The accused SB and LJ.B. are charged with the criminal offenses of aggravated murder by incitement, the aggravated criminal offense of causing general danger by incitement, and attempted extortion by incitement, and LJ.V. and M.Š. with the criminal offenses of aggravated murder and causing general danger. On September 3, 2025, the Court of Appeal of Montenegro issued a decision extending the detention of the accused, with the legal instruction that there is a right to appeal against that decision to the Supreme Court. However, the Supreme Court panel, after reviewing the files and provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code, determined that such an appeal, in this specific case, is not permitted. It also pointed out that the erroneous legal instruction in the decision of the Court of Appeal cannot create a right to appeal that is not prescribed by law," the Supreme Court said in a statement.
The court said that the detention of the accused, after the first-instance verdict was pronounced by the Higher Court in Podgorica, was extended until it became final, or at the latest until the sentences they were sentenced to expire, and that these conditions had not been met at the time the second-instance verdict was issued by the Court of Appeal.
Boreta, Bigović, Vujadinović and Šćekić were again sentenced on September 24 to 30 years in prison for the murder of police officer Slavoljub Šćekić (46).
That was then decided by the panel of the Court of Appeal.
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