The dispute in the Basic Court, which is led by the former acting director of the Revenue and Customs Administration (UPC) Milena Petričević against his successor in that position Rada Milosevic, was postponed once again, because the rulings of the Administrative Court on decisions on confiscation of cigarettes were not delivered to Milošević.
Milošević's deputy lawyer Stefan Jovic therefore suggested that the hearing be postponed, which the judge did Katarina Janković adopted yesterday and scheduled the continuation of the dispute for November 11.
In civil proceedings, Petričević filed a lawsuit against Milošević, seeking 30.000 euros in non-material damages, because in a statement on the "Libertas Press" portal dated June 13, 2022, he stated that "she hid the fact that American cigarettes were stored in the Free Zone of the Port of Bar the company "Lenora International", which was confiscated a day earlier in the action of the Police Administration and UPC...
In his response to the lawsuit, Milošević pointed out that the lawsuit is completely unfounded, that what Petričević claims he said to the portal "Libertas Press" and what he is basing his lawsuit on, he did not state at all in his statement to that portal, and that can conclude from the announcement from the media's website from June 13, 2022.
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At the last hearing on September 25, the Basic Court sent urgent requests to the Supreme Court and the Administrative Court in order to obtain judgments concerning the decision of the UPC on confiscation of cigarettes, but now they have not been delivered to Milošević, so he could not comment on them.
The lawyer of the former acting director Ljubinka Popović Kustudić repeated that she opposes these judgments, that they have no impact on the dispute and that the hearing was postponed several times because these judgments were not submitted to the court.
Petričević told reporters in front of the Basic Court building in Podgorica that she no longer knows how many times the hearing was postponed, that it was never done for her sake, but mainly at the request of Milošević or because of his absence. of the court to reach the same conclusion that they also presented more than seven months ago - that this evidence is legally irrelevant to the litigation.
"We are talking about the judgments of the Administrative Court, all of which even if we have the legitimacy to interpret them under this roof, we cannot do that partially based on the judgment itself and without chronology and insight into the actions of the second instance body and documentation. We do not own the case files because all the decisions of the Administrative Court refer to disputes that the party submitted as an objection to some administrative act of the second-level state body or due to the silence of the administration. And the litigation here is not due to the second instance body and its administrative act, but because of the defamation and predominantly slanderous statement that Milošević, as the holder of a high state office, gave himself the right to declare in his capacity as the head of a state body and thereby caused irreparable non-material damage to me," she said. is Petričević.
Petričević was appointed acting director of UPC on October 21, 2021. Her six-month term expired on April 21, 2022, and the Government Zdravka Krivokapića six days later, appointed Milosevic as the director of this institution. He was appointed to that position at the suggestion of the then Minister of Finance and Social Welfare Milojko Spajić.
Milošević resigned from that position in October 2022, after he was questioned as a citizen as part of the investigation into cigarette smuggling. He was arrested at the end of December of that year on suspicion of being the organizer of a group that smuggled seized cigarettes intended for destruction, and was released from custody in June of last year.
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