Of the seven judges of the Constitutional Court, he is officially the wealthiest recently elected Faruk Resulbegović from Ulcinj, who mostly acquired property (real estate) by inheritance.
According to the latest property register for 2023, published on the website of the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (ASK), Resulbegović inherited a house of 87 square meters, two apartments (142 and 70 square meters), a building plot of 311 square meters, a plot of 37 square meters and business premises. of 70 and 38 square meters. In his file, it is written that he acquired a business space of 66 square meters by inheritance and purchase, while he bought a business space of 128 square meters.
Resulbegović has a BMW 745 from 2002, which he bought, and he inherited a "Citroen C4" from 2009.
He also reported the weapons - "bernardeli VB practical" (2018), "CZ shadow 2" (2021), "beretta ARX 160" (2020), which he said he bought.
Resulbegović, a long-time prosecutor of the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Ulcinj, was elected as a judge of the Constitutional Court on November 21 last year.
In December, as a judge of the Constitutional Court, he had a basic salary of 1.721 euros. His salary as a primary prosecutor, according to the data from the file, was from 1.300 to 3.000 euros during the last year.
Last year, he had a total income of 16.200 euros from the sale of real estate.
Resulbegović is returning a cash loan of 25.000 euros from 2022, for which he has an installment of 264 euros.
He did not give his consent to access the data on the accounts of banking and other financial institutions.
Judge Momirka Tešić from Tivat owns a field of 913 square meters of immovable property (a gift). Her husband Nenad Tešić he has a 50 percent share in the 105 square meter house (inheritance), as well as half of the 300 square meter property, which is entered in the register as "other", which he also inherited.
Momirka Tešić has shares in five companies - Otrant komerc (62), Izbor Bar (2.000), Port of Bar (1.050), Port of Adrija (1.050) and Adriatic Shipyard (38).
Tešić was elected as a judge of the Constitutional Court at the end of February last year.
Her total net earnings in the Constitutional Court last year amounted to 16.820 euros (from 1,7 thousand to 2,2 thousand per month). As a judge of the Basic Court in Kotor in 2022, she had a salary of 18,3 thousand euros net.
In the Commission for the Selection of Decisions/Solutions of the Constitutional Court last year, she had a total compensation of 625,5 euros.
She did not give her consent to access data on the accounts of banks and other financial institutions.
Asset card of the judge Snezana Armenko from Podgorica has not yet been published on the ASK website, but in January of this year she reported changes in her property status. These changes relate to the property inherited by her husband Lazar Armenko (Budva).
Her husband inherited a house with a living space of 72 square meters, a non-residential space of 10 square meters and a commercial space of 56 square meters. He also inherited meadows of a total of three thousand square meters, pastures of about 9,7 thousand square meters, construction land (a total of 866 square meters), forests (36 thousand square meters), rock garden, reed...
Armenko was elected as a judge of the Constitutional Court in February 2023, and previously she was the deputy protector of human rights and freedoms.
According to the property record for 2022, Armenko has an 86-square-meter apartment that she bought, and a Peugeot 207 car from 2011.
She has a housing loan from 2022 for a total of 85.950 euros, and her installments are 498,48 euros. He also has two cash loans of 20 and 2022, also from XNUMX.
As the deputy protector of human rights and freedoms, she had a basic net salary of a total of 19.172 euros in 2022, i.e. 1,59 thousand euros per month.
She did not consent to access to data on the accounts of banks and other financial institutions.
Judge Dragana Đuranović is one of the three judges of the Constitutional Court who was helped by the state to solve the housing issue, while she was the protector of the property and legal interests of Montenegro. She was elected as a judge of the Constitutional Court in February last year.
Apart from her, the state helped the judges Desanka Lopičić i Budimir Šćepanović to buy apartments while they were judges of the Constitutional Court, even though it was forbidden by law. Because of this, the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) filed an indictment against several officials of the former DPS authority.
As previously announced, Đuranović got an apartment in the City Quarter (where a square meter costs several thousand euros) from the Government in 2016 and she paid only 15.445 euros, that is, 208 euros per square meter.
She said in the Assembly, during the hearing of candidates for judges of the Constitutional Court, that she has a DPS membership card, but that she will return it as soon as she is elected as a judge.
Last year, as a judge of the Constitutional Court, Đuranović had a basic salary of a total of 22,7 thousand euros (from two thousand to 2.500 euros per month, net).
She also reported another income of 1.913 euros (May last year), but it was not stated what it refers to.
As president of the Editorial Commission in the Constitutional Court, she received a total of 1.251 euros.
She reported cash totaling 5.725 euros and shares in HTP Velika Plaža (5.000 shares).
Đuranović has a consumer loan of 25.000 from 2022. She did not consent to access to data on the accounts of banks and other financial institutions.
Đuranović is eligible for retirement this year, because the changes to the PIO Act came into force in January, which set a single age limit for acquiring the right to an old-age pension of 65 years of age. She turns 65 in December this year, and her pension can be "saved" by changes to the Law on the Constitutional Court, which are in the parliamentary procedure. Amendments to the Law on the Constitutional Court were submitted to the Parliament by part of the ruling majority in March, and they provide that the judges of the Constitutional Court will cease to serve when they reach 67 years of age and 40 years of insurance.
And the judge Desanka Lopičić, which belongs to the old set of judges of the Constitutional Court, the Government gave a favorable loan for the purchase of an apartment.
Her property record for last year has not yet been published on the KAS website, and according to the data from the property record for 2022, she has an apartment of 75 square meters for which the government gave her a loan of 2009 thousand euros in 75, and for which she received installments of only 79,8 euros. It is an apartment in the professor's buildings (at the University of Montenegro), where the square meter was then estimated at 860 euros.
Based on the basic salary in the Constitutional Court, Lopičić had a total annual income of about 26,6 thousand euros net (2,2 thousand euros per month) in 2022.
In addition, she was paid a total of 1.300 euros as a lecturer at the Center for Training in the Judiciary and the State Prosecutor's Office, and almost three thousand euros as a member of the Commission for the Verification of Professional Qualifications.
Lopičić is also repaying a loan of about 14,2 thousand from 2016, for which her installments are 118,73 euros.
This is Lopičić's second mandate in the Constitutional Court. She was elected a judge of the Constitutional Court for the first time on June 23, 2005, at the proposal of the President of Montenegro, and for the second time on January 15, 2014. She also served as president of the Constitutional Court, and then as presiding judge (2020), which was deemed unconstitutional.
The mandate of a judge of the Constitutional Court is 12 years.
Judge Budimir Šćepanović he has an apartment of 90 square meters, which he bought with the help of the state, for slightly more than 13 thousand euros. His apartment is located in the University Center in Podgorica.
According to data from the property register for the year 2023, Šćepanović has a building plot of 1.109 square meters in total (purchase), as well as two motor vehicles: a Nissan Xtrail from 2009 and an Opel Vectra from 1998.
The basic salary for 2023 was a total of 32 thousand euros net (from 2,5 to 2,8 thousand euros per month). He also reported "other income" of 2.657 euros, and he had a fee of 625,5 euros as a member of the Editorial Board.
He also owns weapons - "zastava M 70" from 1985 (inheritance) and "zastava arms M 70A" from 1993 (purchase).
He has 10.000 in cash, and in the securities section he reported "shares", but not the total number of shares, nor which companies they relate to. He has a cash loan of 2.500 euros.
He did not give his consent to access the data on the accounts of banking and other financial institutions.
At the end of May, Šćepanović becomes eligible for a pension according to the PIO Act, but he has not yet informed the President of Montenegro, who should nominate his deputy.
Judge Milorad Gogic is the owner of an apartment of 29 square meters (purchase), while his daughter Andjela has an apartment of 44 square meters, also acquired by purchase.
In the property register for 2023, he reported cash of around 100.000 euros and shares, but not the total number of shares, nor which companies they relate to.
He has a 1989 “flag” pistol that he bought, and a 1994 “red flag” pistol (other).
In 2023, he had a salary of a total of 29 thousand euros, that is, from two thousand to 2,6 thousand net per month.
He also had a fee of 625,5 euros as a member of the Editorial Board.
He did not give his consent to access the data on the accounts of banking and other financial institutions.
Gogić will retire at the end of May, if the Parliament does not adopt amendments to the Law on the Constitutional Court, and the procedure for electing a new judge of the Constitutional Court is underway.
At the beginning of March, the Constitutional Committee of the Parliament established a list of six candidates for Gogić's successor, but interviews with them have not yet begun.
Confirmed indictment in the "Stanovi" affair
In early March of this year, the SDT confirmed the indictment in the "Stanovi" affair.
The indictment was brought against Predrag Bošković, Dragica Sekulić, Ivan Brajović, Damir Šehović, Suzana Pribilović, Budimir Šegrt, Sanja Vlahović, Suad Numanović, Dražen Miličković, Osman Nurković, Jelena Radonjić and Aleksandar Jovićević, due to, as announced by the SDT, the existence of reasonable suspicion that, in the period from 2016 to 2020, as members of the Commission for Housing Affairs of the Government of Montenegro, in co-perpetration, they committed a prolonged criminal offense of abuse of official position, for which a prison sentence of two to 12 years is prescribed.
The defendants are accused of having, contrary to the Decision on the method and criteria for solving the housing needs of officials, without a plan for solving the housing needs and the assessment of the expert committee of the Administration, approved and granted housing loans to improve housing conditions for 119 public officials and employees of state bodies and state administration bodies, in the amounts between 17.500 and 40.000 euros, thus benefiting them and causing damage to the budget of Montenegro, in the total amount of 2.604.740 euros.
Applications of six candidates are still with the Parliamentary Commission
The Assembly told "Vijesta" that the applications of all candidates for Constitutional Court judges are with the commission, which has the task of determining whether the applications are timely and complete.
"After that, the commission will prepare a report that will be submitted to the Constitutional Committee for approval. After the adoption of the relevant report at the session of the Constitutional Committee, a decision will be made on the date of the consultative hearing of all candidates who meet the prescribed conditions. The term in which the Constitutional Committee should conduct a consultative hearing of the candidates is not prescribed," said the Assembly.
On March 5, the Constitutional Committee determined the list of candidates who applied to be a judge of the Constitutional Court. Applications were submitted by Alija Beganović, Zoran Vukićević, Nerma Dobardžić, Muhamed Đokaj, Jovan Kojičić and Sanja Maslenjak.
Darko Dragović (PES), Bogdan Božović (SNP) and Sonja Milatović (DPS) are in the commission that should evaluate the applications.
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