The decision in the "Telekom" case is correct and legal, the Supreme State Prosecutor's Office (SPO) announced.
"Vijesti" announced this morning that State Prosecutor at the State Prosecutor's Office Veljko Rutović, acting on a complaint by the Network for the Affirmation of the Non-Governmental Sector (MANS) against the actions of the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT), determined that the SDT made a correct and lawful decision with sufficiently clear reasons for dismissing the criminal complaint filed by that NGO against former head of state Milo Đukanović, his sister Ana Đukanović and others for abuse of official position, accepting bribes and creating a criminal organization during the sale of the former state-owned company "Telekom".
"Regarding public allegations by certain media outlets and other entities regarding the case against M.Đ. and others, we would like to inform the public that the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution for the criminal offenses of abuse of official position and abuse of official position by aiding and abetting expired on March 31, 2015, for the criminal offense of bribery expired on May 15, 2011, and for the criminal offense of money laundering expired on May 15, 2016, i.e. well before the filing of the criminal report filed by the non-governmental organization Network for the Affirmation of the Non-Governmental Sector on March 1, 2019," the VDP announced.
"For the criminal offenses of accepting a bribe and accepting a bribe by aiding and abetting, which are also the subject of a criminal report, the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution expired on May 15, 2021, but the responsibility for this lies with the previous case handler in relation to the one who made the decision and the previous head of the Special State Prosecutor's Office. For this reason, the Chief Special Prosecutor submitted a proposal to the Prosecutorial Council for the imposition of disciplinary liability against the previous case handler," they added in the statement.
The Special Prosecutor's Office specifically points out that when the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution has expired, the special prosecutor cannot, by law, undertake any procedural action to verify the allegations in the report and determine its merits.
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