The candidates for the general director of the Radio Television of Montenegro (RTCG) Časlav Vujotić, Srđan Čović, Slaven Knezović and Žarko Božović, together with Tanja Šuković and Mladen Vukčević, submitted to the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica a criminal complaint for criminal association against the acting (acting) general director of Public Service Boris Raonić, President of the Council Veselin Drljević, Council members Naod Zorić, Filip Lazović, Amina Murić, Milica Špajak and Vladimir Drekalović, as well as Željko Mićović, head of the RTCG Legal Service.
"...For criminal association because in the long term, starting from June 2021 and the announcement of the competition for the general director of RTCG, they broke the laws, knowingly, willingly and intentionally, and endangered the public interest, and enabled Boris Raonic to illegally acquire over 170 thousand euros gross (about 128 thousand euros net). All these persons, in violation of the Law on the National Public Broadcaster, the Law on the Salaries of Public Officials, elected Boris Raonic three times illegally (August 6, 2021, June 1 2023 and for the acting general director of RTCG on July 9, 2024) despite the obligations of the members of the Council to act in accordance with their knowledge, awareness and conscience, respecting the decisions of the competent courts", the explanation of the application states.
They went on to say that "in addition to tendentially interpreting the laws in favor of Boris Raonic, apparently according to a previous agreement, the mentioned persons also ignored court decisions, namely 4 decisions of the Basic Court (the cases of Marković and Čović), the decision of the High Court (the case of Marković - the first lawsuit ), the decision of the Supreme Court (March 2024), the opinion of the KAS (March 01.03, 2024, number 03-02-24-24-6) and the decision of the Administrative Court from February 15, 2024".
They said that in June 2023, RTCG lawyer Mićović, not protecting the interests of RTCG, "tendentially and imprecisely interpreted the Decision of the High Court, encouraging the members of the Council of RTCG to re-elect Raonic, despite the Decision of the High Court".
"It is particularly interesting that Raonic was present with his lawyers at the preparatory session for the second irregular election. Most of this information and accusations are known to the authorities of the Montenegrin prosecutor's offices, but they delayed the initiation of the procedure (investigation) for a long time, justifying themselves with formal reasons of the jurisdiction of the ODT or SDT. Or was it the desire to subsequently create the conditions for Raonic's regularity," the explanation reads.
They point out that it became clear that there was a desire to subsequently create conditions for Raonic's regularity, at the moment when the amendments of the "multiple illegal Raonic" appeared as official Government amendments during the June IBAR sessions.
"Who was careless and naive, and who cooperated with Raonic will remain for the competent authorities to judge. From the point of view of the responsible management of a company of public interest, all principles of integrity are threatened and violated, because the services are under complete control or derogation of functions by Raonic ", they said.
They said that it is common to:
"Large and/or uncontrolled space for making discretionary decisions when making redistribution decisions, decisions on the variable part of earnings and other decisions of importance for the work, education, training and material status of employees b) Inadequate and insufficiently transparent spending of budget funds c) Giving priority to a certain company in to the public procurement process, in such a way that tender conditions are adjusted for a specific company".
They said that this is particularly reflected in the several hundred changes of positions in the Rulebook on Internal Systematization and Organization, as well as the absence of a refined systematization table, "which creates chaos in the RTCG and generates many labor-legal disputes."
"Most of these claims are found in the criminal charges - Media Centra from June 2023 and Srđan Čović from November 9, 2023, so you can consider this criminal charge as a supplement to the existing charges. In the meantime, the Legal Service and the Council did not react to the letters in which the person responsible for receiving and acting on notifications of suspected irregularities and fraud are drawn to the attention of Raonic's endangerment of the public interest, did not respond to the AZLP letter that, in accordance with the Law on SPI, the audio recording from July 2021, on which most likely there is information about who cannot be the general manager," it said.
"In addition, they refused to comment on the decisions of the Supreme Court and KAS (March 2024), probably buying time for the election of the acting general director of RTCG, which is also illegal because Raonic still does not have the legal requirements to be the general director of RTCG. The last illegal act was is the election of the RTCG ombudsman, according to the personal preferences of the president of the RTCG Council, Veselin Drljević," the application reads.
"The personal integrity of this group is also indicated by the fact that Boris Raonic, at the meeting of the Council of Europe in 2010, presented himself as a law graduate, although it is common knowledge and confirmed by the courts of Montenegro that he acquired academic status in 2018 after graduating from the Faculty of Law after 25 years. All the mentioned actions and circumstances testify that the mentioned group jointly violated the law, enabling Boris Raonic to acquire enormous funds, and that there are grounds to prosecute them for violating articles 49, 244, 244a, 272, 390, 395, 401, 401a, 416 of the CCCG. ", it concludes.
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