Judge of the Constitutional Court Desanka Lopičić, according to data from her new property record, she has only one apartment, and that is the one she bought with the help of the state.
The Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (ASK) published the Lopičić file, in which she reported a 75-square-meter apartment for which the government gave her a loan of 2009 euros in 75, and for which her installments are only 79,8 euros.
According to the data from her file, she still has ten thousand euros to pay back for the loan for that apartment by January 2029.
As previously announced, it is an apartment in the professor's buildings (near the University of Montenegro), where the square meter was then estimated at 860 euros. A square meter apartment in that building now costs around two thousand euros.
The allocation of apartments to government officials is dealt with by the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT), which brought charges against several former government officials from the DPS, members of the Government's Commission for Housing Issues.
Lopičić is one of the three judges of the Constitutional Court who was helped by the state to solve the housing issue.
Judge Dragana Đuranović, as previously announced, has an apartment in the City Quarter (where a square meter costs several thousand euros), which she received from the Government in 2016, while she was the protector of the property and legal interests of the state, and she paid only 15.445 euros, i.e. 208 euros per square meter.
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.
Based on the basic salary in the Constitutional Court, Lopičić had a total annual income of about 29,7 thousand euros net in 2023.
In addition, she was paid a total of 3,3 thousand euros as a lecturer at the Center for Training in the Judiciary and the State Prosecutor's Office, and 312,75 euros as a member of the Commission for Drafting Constitutional-Judicial Decisions.
Lopičić is paying off another loan, which she stated is a housing loan for rent, of about 14,2 thousand from 2016, for which her installment is 118,73 euros.
This is Lopičić's second mandate in the Constitutional Court. She was elected as a judge of the Constitutional Court for the first time on June 23, 2005, at the suggestion of the then President of Montenegro. Filip Vujanović, and 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.
Lopičić did not consent to access to data on the accounts of banks and other financial institutions.
As "Vijesti" recently announced, of the seven judges of the Constitutional Court, the recently elected is officially the wealthiest Faruk Resulbegović from Ulcinj, who mostly acquired property (real estate) by inheritance.
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