The appointments of Boris Raonic as general director of RTCG, and there were four of them in three years, have long ceased to be issues that concern (only) him and the members of the Council who are under his control, but Montenegro, which does not exist as a legal state.
This is what the Deputy President of the RTCG Council, Marijana Camović Veličković, told "Vijesta" yesterday, regarding the second judgment of the High Court that Raonic was illegally elected as director of the public service in June of last year.
"That law and justice can be played by simply invalidating decisions in order to continue the same is not wisdom or some extraordinary skill, but a simple fraud that is openly allowed in Montenegro in front of all of us and non-existent institutions that silently watch what is happening". she judged.
The Higher Court in Podgorica, ruling on the RTCG's appeal against the first-instance verdict of the Basic Court in Podgorica on the lawsuit of Nikola Marković, found that the Council illegally appointed Raonic as director.
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Last year's illegal appointment followed a final verdict also based on Marković's lawsuit, and the court then determined that Raonic did not meet the requirements of the 2021 competition, but also that he was in a conflict of interest because at the time of his candidacy for general director, he was a member of the Council of the Agency for Electronic media (SAEM).
Most of the members of the Council then decided to act according to the verdict, but they did not disqualify Raonic, but voted for him again, ignoring the warnings of the vice-president of that governing body, Marijana Camović Veličković, that they were "entering the zone of criminal responsibility".
"This is the seventh judgment in total that says the same thing, let's add to them the opinion of the ASK in which it is emphasized that the members of the Council, persistently voting for Raonic, are behaving like corrupt persons and that none of them have yet been arrested and removed from the public positions to which they submitted personal interest is once again a confirmation of the non-existence of the state," Camović Veličković said.
She also said that it is true that even this verdict does not produce a legal effect in terms of removing Raonic from the position he occupied.
"... But the second final verdict confirms that on June 1, 2023, exactly five members of the RTCG Council refused to act according to the final court verdict by agreeing to Raonic being on the list of candidates again and that they elected him and gave him an illegal mandate . It is a criminal offense. Everyone was warned about what they were doing and what the consequences were, they turned a deaf ear and voted. It would be their turn to bear the consequences," said Camović Veličković.
In the last decision, the High Court notes that "contrary to the claims of the appeal, the first-instance court correctly decided":
"As the first-instance court correctly finds, and contrary to the allegations of the prosecutor's appeal, and according to this court's assessment, the court does not have the authority to order the defendant to 'eliminate one of the registered candidates' during the re-election. The court only has the authority to annul the defendant's decision, if it was not made in accordance with the law, while it is up to the Council of the RTCG to make a new decision on the selection of the registered candidates, which should take into account the reasons given by the court in the judgment by which annulled the decision", says the verdict of September 20, which "Vijesti" has access to.
The High Court emphasizes that the decision to dismiss Raonic from July 9 this year at his own request is not relevant in this legal matter.
"... Because the court was dealing with the legality of the decision from June 1, 2023," said the High Court.
This summer, the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) returned to the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica the case files related to last year's re-appointment of Raonic to the post of general director, but the decision in that case has not yet been made.
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This is the seventh judgment in total that says the same thing, let's add to them the opinion of the ASK in which it is pointed out that the members of the Council, persistently voting for Raonic, are behaving like corrupt persons and that none of them have yet been arrested and dismissed from public positions where they submitted to personal the interest is again the confirmation of the non-existence of the state", Camović Veličković said
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