Zirojević: What will we do with the information that Medenica went to parties when he was not allowed to leave the apartment?

Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Security and Defense, Social Democrat MP Nikola Zirojević, said that there is information that the first-instance convicted head of the criminal group Miloš Medenica was violating the ban on leaving the apartment even before the verdict was pronounced.

An international red notice has been issued for Medenica, as the police did not find him in his apartment after he was sentenced to ten years and two months in prison by a first-instance verdict before the Higher Court in Podgorica on January 28. The court also issued a decision to remand Medenica in custody.

"What are we going to do with some information that this is not the first time Miloš Medenica has violated the measure? What are we going to do with the information that he went to birthdays and celebrations, and that there are photographs from those events? Has anyone monitored that, in the period of time from when he was ordered to stay away from his residence until the moment he was not found, he had already gone out and attended celebrations," Zirojević asked at today's committee meeting.

The son of former Supreme Court President Vesna Medenica was released from custody on October 17, 2025, after being ordered to stay in his apartment. The pre-trial panel made the decision after three years had passed without a first-instance verdict since the indictment was filed.

The chairman of the committee, Europe Now MP Miodrag Laković, said that he had no knowledge of what Zirojević was talking about.

"If Miloš Medenica was already violating the measure, and the public had found out about it, I assume it wouldn't have been too upset. The only thing the public is interested in is the measure that was violated at the moment he was sentenced to the first instance. You confirmed that the measure could have been violated in other situations and that the police really do not have 24-hour surveillance, nor are they obligated to monitor 24 hours a day," Laković added.

If that obligation existed, then, as he said, "classic detention would be ordered and the person would be in UIKS."

"But there must be knowledge, right?" Zirojević asked.

"Information does not have to be available, information is available or not. The police have mechanisms to obtain information, sometimes it is obtained, sometimes more difficult, sometimes easier, we cannot define it as having to have information," said Laković.