The Supreme Court rejected the revision of Irena Radović

The Supreme Court rejected the revision of Irene Radović, against the verdict of the High Court in Podgorica, which confirmed the verdict of the Basic Court in Podgorica in the case handled by judge Mladen Grdinić.

The first-instance verdict rejected the claim of the former vice-governor of the Central Bank, with which she sought to establish that that institution and the governor, Radoje Žugić, engaged in mobbing and discriminatory behavior against her as a woman and an employee of the CBCG.

Also, her request was rejected, in which she asked for the Central Bank to undertake to compensate her for non-material damages due to mental pain suffered as a result of the violation of her dignity, reputation, and personal and professional integrity in the amount of 10.000 euros.

"In the lawsuit filed in April 2018, former vice-governor Irena Radović did not state why she was discriminated against by the defendants, and at the preliminary hearing she pointed out that the reason for her discrimination was that she was previously considered a candidate for the governor of the Central Bank, only to point out in the final stage of the first-instance proceedings in June 2020 that the defendants had discriminated against her as a woman. carried out mobbing and discriminatory behavior against her, in such a way that they limited and denied her the right to work, that they carried out an uneven distribution of work tasks, powers and employees compared to the other two vice-governors, while paying lower salaries compared to them," it was announced from the Basic Court in Podgorica.

"The Supreme Court concluded that the plaintiff did not prove that the defendant made the decisions on the basis of which the plaintiff ceased to manage the Banking System Control Sector and the Financial Services Control Sector based on some of the plaintiff's personal characteristics, nor that such decisions represented an act of psychological abuse of the plaintiff and her humiliation with the aim of injuring her dignity, reputation, personal or professional integrity or that they were brought with the intention of harming her health, but that they were brought solely on the basis of the Central Bank Act, the Statute of the Central Bank and the Rulebook on the Systematization of Central Bank Jobs banks, which regulations did not define the obligation of the governor to transfer certain tasks from his jurisdiction to the vice governor", the announcement concludes.