Democratic Montenegro MP Boris Bogdanović announced that he suspects that in the case of Vesna Medenica "someone is intentionally abusing the procedural provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC)", and that the question arises that the ground is being prepared for her to follow in the footsteps of her son Miloš, with the intention of her also trying to evade justice".
"The Court of Appeal today informed the public that it has returned the case files of the accused Vesna Medenica, which were delivered to them by the Higher Court in Podgorica on February 06.02th of this year, to the same court in order to eliminate the deficiencies, and the deficiency is stated to be that there is no evidence in the case files that the decision was also served on attorney Zdravko Tomanović, Vesna Medenica's defense attorney. I would like to remind you that this is a case in which the SDT requested that the Court of Appeal urgently reverse the decision of the Higher Court and order a detention measure for Vesna Medenica, after the first-instance verdict of the Higher Court sentenced her to 10 years in prison. Since it could be concluded from the media that followed the trial of Vesna Medenica that she had multiple defense attorneys, I would like to point out that Article 195, paragraph 5 of the CPC stipulates: 'If a document is to be delivered to the defense attorney of the accused, and he has multiple defense attorneys, it is sufficient to deliver it to one of them'", Bogdanović announced.
He added that he is publicly raising this issue and expects the Appellate and High Courts to inform the public without delay whether Vena Medenica has multiple defense attorneys in this specific case and whether the specific letter has been served on at least one of them.
"The public already seriously suspects that someone is intentionally abusing the procedural provisions of the CPC in order to delay the decision of the Court of Appeal upon the request of the SDT to order Vesna Medenica's detention for as long as possible after she was sentenced to ten years in prison by the first-instance verdict of the Higher Court. The public already seriously suspects that someone is intentionally abusing the procedural provisions of the CPC in order to delay the decision of the Court of Appeal upon the request of the SDT to order Vesna Medenica's detention for as long as possible after she was sentenced to ten years in prison by the first-instance verdict of the Higher Court," said Bogdanović.
The Court of Appeal announced earlier today that it has returned the case files of Vesna Medenica to the lower court to correct the deficiency.
The case files in the trial of the accused Vesna Medenica were submitted to the Court of Appeal on February 6, for the purpose of deciding on the appeal of the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) against the decision of the Higher Court in Podgorica, which rejected the proposal to order detention for Medenica and imposed supervision measures on her.
The Court of Appeals said that the judge rapporteur in charge of the case, who, in the preparation process for the panel session, determined that there was no evidence in the files about the delivery of the decision to attorney Zdravko Tomanović, the defense attorney of the accused Vesna Medenica, who has the right to appeal the part of the decision imposing supervision measures on her.
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