Veselin Veljović will no longer be under house arrest, and his only obligation is to report to the police on the 15th of every month.
This was decided by the Higher Court in Podgorica, which lifted the previously imposed supervision measure.
The former director of the Police Directorate has been charged with creating a criminal organization and abuse of office. He is accused of being a member of a criminal group formed by Aleksandar Mrkić.
"At the proposal of the defense attorney of the defendant Veselin Veljović, the court issued a decision in which it abolished the previously determined supervision measure in paragraph I - a ban on leaving the apartment, and in paragraph II it determined the supervision measure of the obligation to periodically report to the competent authority, every 15th of the month, with a warning that, if he violates the imposed supervision measure, detention may be ordered against him," announced the independent public relations advisor of the Higher Court, Ivana Vukmirović.
"When deciding on the motion of the defendant's defense attorney, the court particularly appreciated the findings and opinion of the medical expert, which concluded that the defendant Veselin Veljović's condition was of an urgent nature and that it was forensically justified to refer him for treatment outside Montenegro, because this type of intervention is not performed by the Montenegrin healthcare system. The findings and opinion also stated that, if the surgery is postponed for a month, two, half a year or a year, the risk of increasingly severe liver damage will successively increase, and if the surgery is not performed, it is realistic to expect that cirrhosis of the liver will develop, as the final stage of loss of liver function, as a vital organ, because severe impairment of function or loss of function of any vital organ represents a real risk of shortening life expectancy and significantly affects the quality of remaining life," the statement reads.
It is noted that the defense attorney's proposal to lift the supervision measure of the ban on leaving the apartment, pursuant to the provisions of Article 166 of the Criminal Procedure Code, was submitted for opinion to the Special State Prosecutor's Office, which agreed with the defense's proposal to lift the supervision measure for the defendant, while prescribing some other measure, all so that the defendant could continue his treatment.
"The court, taking into account the defendant's health condition, but also the need to ensure his presence in the further course of the proceedings, imposed a supervision measure - an obligation to periodically report to a state authority, which measure, in the opinion of this court, corresponds to the purpose and circumstances of the specific case," it was announced.
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