More than a dozen people were allegedly illegally eavesdropped and monitored from the end of 2019 until the last days of August 2020, and all of them in the case of the Special State Prosecutor's Office are being treated as injured witnesses in another proceeding of that prosecution against the former head of the secret police Dejan Peruničić.
According to unofficial information from "Vijesti", several people in the previous period gave statements in that prosecution, and the acting prosecutor asked them to declare whether they join the criminal prosecution against Peruničić.
"Vijesti" sources claim that some non-governmental activists were heard, as well as some citizens who pointed out institutional injustice in that period.
According to the report filed against Peruničić by his successor as head of the secret police, Dejan Vuksic, during the hearings against the Law on Freedom of Religion, from the end of 2019 to the end of August 2020, he eavesdropped on the priests of the Metropolis of Montenegro and the Littoral, citizens, and certain politicians.
The "News" did not explain whether civil and civil activists were heard in that investigation, but the time of the wiretapping coincides.
Several indictments were brought against Peruničić for abuse of official position. All were confirmed, but the High Court in Podgorica decided to try him and his associates behind closed doors.
Three indictments have been joined by which special prosecutors accuse him of abuse of official position.
In one of the cases, the SDT accuses Peruničić of illegally eavesdropping on an official and activists of the Democratic Front in the "Palas" hotel in Petrovac in 2020. This subject became actualized after Front officials announced in early November 2021 that nearly 300 of their officials and activists were wiretapped during a two-day seminar in that hotel.
He is also on trial on charges that he eavesdropped on the former chief special prosecutor during his tenure Milivoj Katnić, and in the second case that it was with the help of a former ANB agent The heart Pavićević illegally filmed and followed officials of the former Democratic Front, Democrats, Socialist People's Party (SNP) and United Montenegro, former prime minister Zdravka Krivokapića, the late Metropolitan Amfilohi of the Montenegrin littoral and several journalists.
SDT accuses Peruničić and Pavićević of illegally following, eavesdropping and recording Krivokapić, the current Deputy Prime Minister, from the beginning of 2020 until August 30 of that year Aleks Bečić, the current president of the Assembly Andrija Mandić, leader of the Democratic People's Party Milan Knežević, the functionary of Nova Slaven Radunović, the then mayor of Budva Marko Bata Carevica, and the current president of that Municipality, now arrested Milo Božović. According to the same files, the leaders of the United Montenegro and the Socialist People's Party were illegally monitored, eavesdropped and recorded. Goran Danilović i Vladimir Jokovic, current Minister of Agriculture, then Democrat MP Boris Bogdanovic, then a journalist, and now the consul of Montenegro in Serbia Nevenka Bošković Cirović and a journalist Petar Komnenic.
Peruničić was arrested in October 2021, and he was dismissed as head of the secret police in mid-December 2020.
At the end of 2022, the leader of the Democratic People's Party Milan Knezevic he called on Peruničić to say who gave him the political order to wiretap the leader of the Democratic Front, promising that if he did so, he would drop the criminal prosecution against him.
"To make it clear to the people, ANB had logistics for wiretapping in the building of the Central Bank of Montenegro, the State Audit Institution, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the building of the mayor of Podgorica," said Knežević, who then showed the journalists and provided documentation - expert reports that confirm his allegations.
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