Postponed review of the indictment in the "Plantaže" case because the defendant Šahman is celebrating Eid

The Special State Prosecutor's Office previously filed an indictment against six former managers in "Plantaže" who are charged with the criminal offense of abuse of position in business operations.

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The building that houses the High Court in Podgorica, Photo: Boris Pejović
The building that houses the High Court in Podgorica, Photo: Boris Pejović
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The hearing for the control of the indictment, which was scheduled today in the High Court in Podgorica, in the Plantaže case, has been postponed to May 14, Judge Zoran Radović decided at the hearing.

The judge read the defense's submission from April 10, in which the defense attorney requested the postponement of the hearing because the defendant Sead Shahman is celebrating Ramadan Eid.

Judge Radović read the decision of the Special State Prosecutor's Office from February 28, which rejected as unfounded the request to disqualify the state prosecutor assigned to the Special State Prosecutor's Office, Vukas Radonjić, as the representative of the indictment. He added that this request was submitted at the indictment review hearing on February 23 by lawyer Bojana Franović, the defense attorney of the defendant Veselin Vukotić, who was joined by lawyer Marko Radović, the defense attorney of the defendant Božo Mihailović.

The Special State Prosecutor's Office previously filed an indictment against six former managers in "Plantaže" who are charged with the criminal offense of abuse of position in business operations. The defendants are Veselin Vukotić, Đorđije Rajković, Sead Šahman, Duško Perović, Božo Mihailović and Verica Maraš.

"They are accused that from December 24, 2019 to April 23, 2020 in Podgorica, as responsible persons in the damaged company 13. Jul-Plantaže AD, they abused their position in terms of disposing of other people's property and did not perform their duty, so they obtained from the business company 'OMP-Engineering' DOO an illegal pecuniary benefit exceeding the amount of forty thousand euros, and inflicted pecuniary damage on the injured party," said special prosecutor and SDT spokesman Vukas Radonjić earlier.

As a result of the partial execution of an obviously harmful settlement, the company "OMP Engineering" received an illegal property benefit in the amount of 384.672,40 euros, and the damaged company suffered damage.

For the criminal offense of abuse of position in business, which is the subject of the indictment, the law prescribes a prison sentence of two to ten years.

"The special police department, by order of the state prosecutor, and in accordance with the Law on Confiscation of Property Gains from Criminal Activity, undertakes measures and actions to detect and identify the property gain from criminal activity, in order to eventually launch a financial investigation against the defendants," he stated earlier. special prosecutor Radonjić.

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