At the session of the Prosecutor's Council, and at the suggestion of several members of that body, conclusions were reached to request information from the competent prosecutor's offices on numerous cases that are pending, but also to adopt a proposal to publish decisions on the website in the future, for the sake of additional transparency. on deferred prosecution.
At the proposal of member Siniša Gazivoda, the Prosecutor's Council concluded that the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica should request information regarding the cases formed during the presidential elections held in 2023.
At the proposal of Gazivoda, a conclusion was reached to submit an order to the Commission for Normative Activities to consider the Decision on the number of state prosecutors and the need for possible changes, and to submit a proposal to the Prosecutorial Council.
"Member of the Prosecutor's Council Siniša Gazivoda stated that at one of the next sessions, he will propose to reach a conclusion, that the state prosecutor's offices publish decisions on delayed criminal prosecution, with anonymization, on the website for additional transparency," the announcement of the Prosecutor's Council states.
At the suggestion of TS member Stevo Muk, a decision was made to request information from the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica about the actions taken by the acting prosecutor in the case against the minor LH suspected of murder, who recently managed to escape from the Center for Children and Youth "Ljubović".
A member of the Prosecutor's Council, Filip Jovović, had a proposal, based on which the conclusion was reached, to request information from the Special State Prosecutor's Office about the actions taken by the acting prosecutors in the case regarding the granting of loans from the Abu Dhabi Fund.
The TS will also request that the SDT submit to them for review the case files regarding the misuse of money from the Abu Dhabi Fund.
The investigation in that case was opened in February 2021, but even if the deadline for completion is half a year, that did not happen.
At the session, which was presided over by the Deputy President of the Prosecutorial Council, Nikola Samardžić, the TS considered and adopted, among other things, the request for budget funds for the year 2024, for the spending unit of the Prosecutorial Council.
"The amount of requested funds is €18.867,883. The increase in funds compared to the approved Budget funds for 2023 is mostly related to the part of gross wages, due to the planned filling of vacant positions in state prosecutor's offices, among other things, and the filling of positions in the Supreme State Prosecutor's Office in Service for prosecutorial security and in the Secretariat of the Prosecutorial Council, as well as due to the application of the Branch Collective Agreement for the Administration and Judiciary, which will enter into force on February 15, 2023, and which foresees new increased coefficients for officials, increased rates for overtime work, work on Sundays, work on holidays, new calculation of on-call and standby, increase in earnings based on scientific title. The increase also applies to requests for allocation of funds based on legal services and costs of criminal proceedings, in order to regularly settle obligations under the same and avoid court proceedings. Also , funds were also requested for the development of the unified information system of the State Prosecutor's Office, as well as funds for solving the housing needs of state prosecutors and employees of the state prosecutor's organization," explained the TS statement.
At the session, eight complaints about the work of state prosecutors and heads of state prosecutor's offices were considered, with regard to the legality of their work, 6 of which were assessed as unfounded, one complaint was partially founded, while the decision on one complaint was postponed for the next session.
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