Yesterday, Milenko Šušić filed a criminal complaint against Podgorica Basic Court judge Vera Šljivančanin, on suspicion of abuse of office and falsification of official documents, to the Special Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime and Corruption, as well as to the Podgorica Basic State Prosecutor's Office.
Šušić, as the representative of Nikola Šušić and Bogić Ljumović, accused the judge Šljivančanin that with the verdict she passed, she wanted to obtain an illegal financial benefit for the former judge of that court Spomenka Đukanović and her relatives, and to enable them to illegally register someone else's land.
"In the first-instance judgment it is written that it was passed on June 14 of this year, that is, on the same day when the main hearing was concluded, which is incorrect, because it is impossible, by which she entered false information into the official document," said Šušić.
Šljivančanin judged the case in which the former judge of the Basic Court of Podgorica, Đukanović, and her relatives sued Ljumović and Šušić, seeking to determine the ownership rights to the land, which the prosecutors claimed was left after the death of their common ancestor. Šljivančanin ruled that the land belonged to Đukanović and the other plaintiffs, based on the deed of the Zeta banovina from 1930.
"Ljumović attached the deed of the Zetska banovina, which clearly confirms that the land belonged to his grandfather, while the judge, we don't know how, read that it was completely illegal that the land belonged to their common ancestor, the late great-grandfather, which is completely incorrect and which can be seen from the deed, and which was established by the surveyor himself. It is such an obvious and gross mistake that we believe that even a novice judge, as well as an elementary literate person, could not have made it", said Šušić.
Šljivančanin ruled that the land belongs to Đukanović and the other plaintiffs, and based on the deed of the Zeta banovina from 1930
He added that during the duration of the first-instance proceedings, they requested the disqualification of the judge, knowing that Đukanović knew from before and that he was on friendly terms with her, which Šljivančanin confirmed in her statement on the request for disqualification, stating that it would not affect her decision and that he will judge impartially and fairly in that proceeding.
"We believe that this behavior of the judge is a disaster for the Montenegrin judiciary and we will inform the relevant international institutions that monitor the reform of the judiciary about what kind of judges sit and judge the citizens of Montenegro," he said.
They will file an appeal against the first-instance verdict, and will inform the judicial council and ask it to initiate disciplinary proceedings against the judge for unprofessional and negligent performance of duties.
Sljivancanin on vacation
"Vijesti" editors yesterday failed to contact judge Šljivančanin, in order to comment on Šušić's accusations, because, according to the president of that court, Zoran Radović, he is on vacation.
He did not want to comment on the case, and said that he could not give the "Vijesti" journalist her phone number.
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