The flight by the state plane to Paris of the President of Montenegro Milo Đukanović still remains a secret, the Network for the Affirmation of the Non-Governmental Sector (MANS) announced today.
In the MANS statement, it is stated that the Supreme State Prosecutor's Office (VDT) rejected MANS's complaint against the decision of special prosecutor Veljko Rutović to dismiss their criminal complaint filed against Đukanović due to the suspicion that he used the government plane for private purposes on the way to Paris.
"In the letter to the VDT signed by State Prosecutor Veselin Vučković, it is stated that the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) "acted in accordance with its legal powers and, after checking the report in the investigation, made a reasoned decision to reject the criminal report". As a reminder, State Prosecutor Rutović at the beginning of March rejected the MANS report this year without explaining what kind of investigative actions were carried out, with the statement that "there is no reasonable suspicion that the applicants committed the said criminal offense". In addition to Đukanović, the MANS included in the report Nataša Pešić, the Secretary General of the Government of Montenegro, who is at the head the institution that disposes of the Government plane", says the MANS announcement signed by the director of the MANS Research Center, Dejan Milovac.
The announcement adds that after the MANS application was rejected, Đukanović announced that the flight to Paris was an official one, and that he had an "obligation that he performed in the interest of the state" there, and that it was about the affairs of the president of the state, which are not informs the public, and Đukanović then added that "the public will be informed when that work is finished".
"Almost five months after the flight to Paris, the public still does not have any information about what Đukanović was doing in Paris two days before New Year's Eve, who he met with, and finally what kind of state business it is and what benefits he will have from that "business" have the citizens of Montenegro. Information about what the president was doing in Paris is held by "some state bodies", Đukanović said at the time, without specifying which institutions or individuals they were," MANS said.
MANS stated that Montenegrin Prime Minister Duško Marković, while commenting on suspicions that Đukanović was using the Government's plane for private purposes, said that "it doesn't occur to him to deal with it, nor is it his business".
"Those whose job it was were certainly the prosecutors Rutović and Vučković. However, thanks to their decisions, the public of Montenegro is still denied information about the flight to Paris, and President Đukanović, for the time being, is freed from any criminal responsibility. "What kind of responsibility was Đukanović released from in the middle of last year for the "Envelope" case, when the decision on that was made by the prosecutors Rutović and Vučković," the MANS press release says.
They also state that, despite Đukanović's own admission that DPS received donations that it did not report, prosecutor Rutović made the decision to dismiss the criminal complaint against MANS, and that it was Vučković who confirmed that decision, and that only a few days before he became EU ambassador. in Montenegro, Aivo Orav called for the affair to be resolved.
"It would be healing for the Montenegrin prosecutor's office if prosecutors Rutović and Vučković would come forward publicly with information about who is putting pressure on them, which results in such decisions. Until then, the independence and impartiality of the prosecutor's organization, guaranteed by the law and the Constitution, remains just a dead letter." , concludes the announcement of MANS.
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