The continuation of the trial of the former President of the Supreme Court of Montenegro, Vesna Medenica, her son Miloš and the other defendants, which was scheduled for today in the High Court in Podgorica, was postponed to June 13.
The reason for the postponement of the hearing of the main trial is that the decision for the trial in absentia of the defendant Luka Bakoč has not yet been legally binding.
The defense of the accused Vojin Perunović requested a postponement of the trial. Medical documentation on the state of health of this defendant was submitted to the court.
At the previously postponed main hearing on March 29, the president of the special panel of judges, Nada Rabrenović, accepted the proposal of the Special State Prosecutor's Office to try the defendant Luka Bakoč in absentia.
The Special State Prosecutor's Office filed an indictment against the defendants Miloš and Vesna Medenica, Darko Lalović, Vasilij Petrović, Bojan and Marko Popović, Marko Vučinić, Milorad Medenica, Luka Bakoč, Petar Milutinović, Ivana Kovačević, Radomir Raičević, Marjan Bevenja, Stevo Karanikić and Goran Jovanović. and the company "Kopad Company", for criminal acts - creation of a criminal organization, smuggling, giving and receiving bribes, illegal influence and inducing illegal influence, abuse of official position, drug smuggling, illegal possession of weapons, causing serious bodily harm and preventing evidence.
Miloš Medenica is accused of having created a criminal organization in 2019, whose members were his mother Vesna and other defendants, with the aim of smuggling cigarettes and illegally influencing the judicial authorities, and for the purpose of acquiring illegal profits and power.
It is alleged that, in co-perpetration with the accused members of a criminal organization, he smuggled cigarettes from the Free Customs Zone of the port of Bar, avoiding the measures of customs supervision, with the help of false documents and paying bribes to customs officials.
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