Bitter debate over the expert opinion on the income of the vice-governor in the CBCG

The trial of the lawsuit filed by the former vice-governor of the Central Bank (CBCG) Irene Radović for mobbing and discrimination against the CBCG and Governor Radoj Žugić was interrupted yesterday after an hour and a half of heated discussion regarding financial expertise after Radović's lawyer Bojan Vuković requested the exemption of judge Mladen Grdinić from further proceedings in this litigation.

The litigation will continue after the President of the Basic Court Željka Jovović decides on the request for exemption.

Grdinić previously refused to accept the reasons of the former vice-governor's lawyer for a new economic-financial expert examination and the appointment of a new expert.

The expertise should determine whether the other vice governors were privileged in terms of their incomes compared to Radović's.

Attorney Vuković asked the judge to initiate proceedings before the Ministry of Justice to revoke the license of expert witness Zdravka Poleksić, to whose findings he and Radović made a series of objections during the two days of the trial.

Vuković also suspected the judge of bias and assessed that "the purpose and essence of financial expertise in a lawsuit whose subject is the determination of mobbing and discrimination is rendered meaningless by the procedural decisions."

"Even in relation to the minor and wrong order to the expert, you allowed him not to answer all the inquiries, remarks and objections of the prosecution side, and that every answer that was given yesterday and today was lumpy, indeterminate, imprecise, without using a single document for which the expert she says she had an insight," Vuković addressed the judge.

He claims that the court allowed Zdravka Poleksić to work on the case for more than a year, and that to this day neither the court nor the parties "have the relevant accounting documentation", "not to act according to the court's orders, from the aspect of deadlines and the content of the findings, that is, the level of expertise and objectivity, without any consequences".

CBCG lawyer Miroslav Adžić opposed the prosecution's proposal to appoint a new expert and assessed that Poleksić answered the court's task in accordance with the rules of her profession.

"We have just received an answer as to why the expert was examined these two days on circumstances that are not the subject of the expert's examination, and which is now clear that it was an abuse of authority by the prosecuting party, which is not allowed by the Civil Procedure Act. It is obvious that the huge number of questions for the expert were not aimed at a proper and complete determination of the factual situation, but at his personal and professional discrediting, which we believe the prosecution should not have presented in this proceeding and that in this way it was only abusing its authority. , stated Adžić.

After the testimony and the request for her exemption, the judge did not allow the expert witness Poleksić to answer the lawyer Vuković, and she denied from the audience that she has been working on this case for more than a year, stating that she "received it in December".