Perović signs documents from house arrest?

Director of the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption Jelena Perović she allegedly signed documents from house arrest, although two nights ago she stated that the institution was blocked, and that no document could legally leave the KAS without her signature.

According to unofficial information from "Vijesti", yesterday she signed the documentation, including several contracts on the work.

The Special State Prosecutor's Office suspects Perović of abusing her official position and illegally obtaining material benefits for herself and others in the amount of more than 60.000 euros, in the period from August 2020 to February 2024.

"The Agency is not functioning at the moment because no act can come out of the Agency and be legal without my signature. Some measures were determined for me, which, now it turns out, and we will write this to the court, that the prosecution actually manipulated the evidence and some of the things they stated in the proposal for detention are half-true or untrue. We will present all of this to the court to see if the court will continue to insist that I be restricted from accessing certain witnesses. The witnesses, again, are from the Agency, they make certain decisions that I have to sign, while I am prohibited from communicating with them. Certainly, I will not jeopardize my right to have the measure replaced by pre-trial detention. It's not working for now, and we'll see how the situation develops," Perović asserted two nights ago in an interview from house arrest for TV E.

Yesterday, the High Court did not respond to "News" regarding Perović's appearance in public from house arrest, but also whether she is allowed to meet with which employees and what exactly the measures include when it comes to the tasks that come with her position.

Even the Agency did not respond to the questions as to whether anyone, besides Perovićka, had a deposited signature, so that ASK would fulfill its obligations towards employees without hesitation. They did not answer whether the director ever signed any document from house arrest and if so, what it was about.

Yesterday, the ASK trade union organization invited the assistant director of that institution, Nina Paović, to, as they announced, organize work "in a legal way" in order to "start transparent work" in that institution.

The President of the Trade Union Organization, Dušan Drakić, called on the employees to unite in order to finally stop "behaving in a discriminatory manner and under pressure and to start fulfilling their obligations towards all employees equally".

"Let us all together provide all the support and submit the necessary documentation to the SPO, because this is the only way to remove suspicion and bad reputation from KAS through the work and results of the work of the competent institutions. Not to sign new contracts on the employment of persons because they do not have the authority to do so, but to turn to regular work and fulfilling daily obligations to the extent that is possible in the newly created circumstances. In the end, we are witnesses that despite the appeals we have made, the persecution continues under house arrest. Deed contracts were signed with persons who do not contribute to the work and results of the Agency, documents were signed that enable the further prosecution of union members and the suspension of even a total of 10 employees, eight of whom are women, and we suspect other documents in order to defend the director in future proceedings. In the end, we are witnesses that a person who by force of law should be suspended continues to give the authority to suspend employees who have done nothing," said Drakić.

SDT suspects Perović that she illegally paid benefits and awards to herself, employees of KAS, and former members of the Council, and received documentation on this from the Directorate for Budget Inspection of the Ministry of Finance.

In the same interview for TV E, Perović denied all the accusations. She said that she believes that she was arrested because the KAS had certain procedures regarding the work of the SDT. She said that she knew she would be arrested after that institution "identified irregularities in the work of a public official".

"In my opinion, the main and basic reason for my arrest is that we have established that he is the chief special prosecutor Vladimir Novović "illegally took cases that were politically and socially important at that time from the ruling majority from the elected special prosecutors and assigned them to the prosecutors who he himself asked to be referred to the SDT," she said.

Supreme State Prosecutor Milorad Marković she accused him of "making identical solutions" as she made them.

He also claims that the Agency also examined the property of the head of the Special Police Department Predrag Šukovića and found that his income did not match his assets.

The president and members of the Committee for Political System, Judiciary and Administration of the Parliament of Montenegro from the ranks of the opposition asked the Prosecutorial Council yesterday to provide them with a notification about the alleged illegal confiscation of cases from special prosecutors, by Novović's decision, which the Agency allegedly delivered to them.