The Assembly will discuss the removal of immunity from members of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) and Social Democrats (SD), suspected of abusing their official position by illegally allocating apartments, at a regular session in March.
According to "Vijesti" information, the first session of the spring session will be held on March 6 in Cetinje, and the removal of immunity is planned for the session that will follow after that.
After the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) filed a case based on the Government's criminal complaint in December, it asked the Assembly for approval to revoke the immunity of DPS MPs. Predrag Bošković, Suzana Pribilović i Dragica Sekulić, including Ivan Brajović i Damir Šehović from SD. In addition to them, the investigation also included former ministers Budimir Apprentice, Suad Numanović, Sanja Vlahovic i Osman Nurkovic, former head of the President's Cabinet and former consul in Sremski Karlovci Drazen Milickovic, former Secretary General of the Assembly Aleksandar Jovićević, and former assistant to the general secretary Jelena Radonjic.
The removal of the immunity of these MPs was proposed to the Assembly by the Administrative Committee on December 22, but it has not yet been discussed at the plenum.
When asked why the Assembly has not yet voted on the lifting of the immunity of DPS and SD deputies, from the president's office Danijela Đurović answered ten days ago that an agreement was reached at the collegium that this issue would be discussed at a session attended by all MPs. "Until the end of December, when the regular (autumn) session of the Assembly was over, the conditions were not met to discuss and vote on this issue," said the Assembly.
The SDT established that there is an appropriate level of suspicion that the former members of the Government Commission from 2016 to 2020 committed a prolonged criminal offense of abuse of official position, in that Bošković as president and the others as members made decisions on solving the housing needs of officials contrary to the decision Governments and thus obtained material benefits for others that exceed 30.000 euros.
The list of officials to whom the Commission distributed loans in addition to the Decision on the method and criteria for solving the housing needs of officials included the former Supreme State Prosecutor Ivica Stankovic, former President of the Supreme Court Vesna Medenica, former president of the Commercial Court Blazo Jovanić, Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Bosniak Party Ervin Ibrahimovic, former senior prosecutor Vesna Jovićević, former deputy of DPS and ambassador Edited by Mišo Stanišić...
The Government's criminal complaint states that the former president and members of the Commission damaged the state for 1.823.000 euros by distributing housing loans to over a hundred prosecutors, judges, deputies, ministers and other civil servants from 2016 to the end of 2020. functionary. It is stated that the Commission made decisions on the granting of loans contrary to the provision of the Article of the Decision, which stipulates that an official can be granted a loan "for the improvement of housing conditions up to 15.000 euros".
It is added that the requests were formulated in a lump sum and that the Commission was asked for "financial assistance", i.e. the allocation of funds for the repair or reconstruction of residential buildings or houses, while the applicants themselves "estimated" how much funds they needed.
At the beginning of July, the government canceled the Decision on the method and criteria for solving the housing needs of officials.
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The session on amendments to the Law on confiscation of property benefits acquired through criminal activity should continue on February 23.
According to unofficial information, this was agreed in principle on Thursday evening at the Collegium of the President of the Assembly. The debate on the "anti-mafia" law was postponed until February 10, until the text of the law, for which a working group was formed, is improved.
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