Special State Prosecutor and spokesman of the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SST) Vukas Radonjić said that in the process of that prosecution against the former assistant director of the Police Administration Zoran Lazović and the former chief special prosecutor Milivoj Katnić, there is no question of revenge or revenge.
"Whether it is pressure is not for us to assess. A criminal case has been established at the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica, and it is within the competence of the Prosecutorial Council to ensure independence in the actions of state prosecutors and prosecutors," he said in an interview for the program "Načisto". on TV Vijesti.
"So far, all the decisions made by the SDT in that criminal case have in some way been confirmed by the court, because the defendants have been detained, which means that there is a well-founded suspicion that they have committed the criminal acts for which they are charged. Also, previously the court , and not the state prosecutor, issued an order to search their apartments and other premises they use, which means that at that earlier stage of the procedure there were grounds for suspicion that they had committed the criminal acts for which they are charged," said Radonjić.
He explained what Lazović and Katnić were charged with.
"The defendants are charged with, at the level of reasonable suspicion, the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization and two criminal offenses of abuse of official position. Those two criminal offenses of abuse of official position for each defendant individually refer not only to allowing entry into Montenegro to two members of a criminal organization who were previously prohibited from entering, but also not to initiate proceedings against a certain member of the criminal organization, for whom, from the collected evidence and notifications, there were grounds for suspecting that he had committed a criminal offense prosecuted ex officio and that the proceedings against him Certainly, another part of the investigation is the non-initiation of proceedings against the now former officers of the Police Administration, i.e. the National Security Agency, in the criminal case in which certain evidence was collected in the international criminal legal assistance procedure, which was archived, and the re-evaluation of that evidence, along with the collection of other evidence, led to the fact that more than 30 criminal offenses were brought against those and other persons by the SDT, it seems to me that more than 20 persons were charged".
When asked if he was trying to say that part of the Europol documentation was "languishing in a drawer", Radonjić said that he wanted to say that the documentation was not properly evaluated.
Radonjić, when asked what the position of the prosecution is regarding the defense of Katnić and Lazović, that Petar Lazović is a secret agent and that the arrival of Miljković and Belivuk was part of a legitimate police action, which was coordinated with the Serbian police and security services, said that the SDT was also checking that fact, in the first proceeding that was initiated against the defendant Lazović.
"In that procedure, which resulted in the filing of an indictment... In that indictment, one entire part of the explanation is dedicated only to that fact. That is, it was established that in the Anti-Crime Sector of the Police Administration there are two departments - for special investigative methods and for criminal It was also established that neither the defendant nor the other defendants performed any work in those two departments. It is the responsibility of those departments to carry out secret surveillance measures, including the engagement of undercover investigators or associates, that is, collection, processing and delivery. data from the members of the criminal organization. I must point out that there was no legal basis during the period in which the defendants were charged, because the Constitutional Court abolished the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code that allowed for the hiring of an undercover investigator or associate , there was no legal basis at that moment for the defendants to be undercover investigators or collaborators, as they want to publicly present themselves, and that was certainly dealt with in the investigation procedure that preceded the filing of the indictment," said the special prosecutor.
Radonjić, when asked whether Katnić's decision to go on hunger strike will affect the future actions of the prosecution, said that the actions of detained persons in any case cannot affect the work of the SDT.
It also indicates that the behavior of detainees is not within the jurisdiction of the SDT.
"Dealing with detained persons is within the competence and control authority of the president of the competent court and the investigating judge of the competent court, who may have ordered detention or whom the president of the court authorizes," he said.
"A decision will be made in every case"
Radonjić, regarding the allegation that there is no decision yet regarding former minister Vesna Bratić, pointed out that there are several criminal cases against her and that investigations are ongoing in all of them.
"Numerous evidence and documentation were collected through the SPO and other state bodies. It is about the allegedly illegal dismissal of about 250 directors of educational institutions. These are extensive cases that need to be studied, the regulations must be consulted... In every criminal case that is filed , regardless of whether they are officials of the former or current government, we do not make such a distinction... In each case, a decision will be made, especially before the chief special prosecutor initiated more active actions in those cases," he said. Radonjic.
The prosecution, the editor and host of the show Petar Komnenić reminded, is the target of accusations and that it "turns a blind eye" in some cases where the damage was estimated at much higher amounts than in the case against the director of the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption Jelena Perović - CEDIS, Rudnik Uglja...
"The work on each criminal case is individual, some require more work, it implies the existence of a larger amount of evidence, some international, often inter-institutional cooperation, consultations with experts, and the promptness of the case handler is individual, not everyone is equally capable of working on a criminal case. .. All this affects the length of the proceedings, that is, the work on criminal cases. But, in each of those cases, a decision will be made, especially since it is in the interest of the SDT to resolve these criminal cases, just as it is in the interest of the public." , Radonjic said.
Dismissed both criminal charges against Olivera Injac
Radonjić announced that last year, both criminal charges against the former Minister of Defense and the current mayor of Podgorica Olivera Injac, in February and December, were dismissed.
"The applicant, the lawyer who filed the criminal complaint, and the Protector of Property and Legal Interests, as the legal representative of the injured Montenegro, were informed about both decisions," he said.
Soon the decision on Raonic
Three judicial instances, including the Supreme Court, decided that Boris Raonic was illegally elected as the general director of Radio and Television of Montenegro, and recently the Basic Court also decided that the re-election of Raonic was also illegal.
Radonjić says that he has asked the Basic Court in writing to provide him with a certified copy of the decision and that after its delivery, he will consider the sentence itself and the explanation of the decision.
"Certainly, this decision of the court will be useful for deciding on criminal charges and it greatly speeds up the decision on criminal charges," said Radonjić, answering in the affirmative to the question whether it can be expected soon.
The court's decision in the case of Mijajlović "indicates unequal treatment"
Former informal co-owner of "Bemaks" Aleksandar Mijajlović, whom the SDT suspects of being the head of an organized criminal group engaged in cigarette smuggling, will defend himself from freedom.
Radonjić says that this decision leads to legal uncertainty, because it "indicates unequal treatment by the courts in the same or identical cases like this one".
"It was not handled in the same way in all cases in which, for example, members of a criminal organization offered very large amounts as bail, monetary amounts and amounts in real estate, so such guarantees were not accepted, while in the case you mention, in which the defendants charges that he is the organizer of a criminal organization, accepted bail for a much smaller amount," he said.
Asked if he draws a parallel with the case of Petar Lazović or another case, he adds:
"There are also those cases, I'm not just talking about Petar Lazović, that's the most well-known case to the public, perhaps the best-known case. We have other cases where members of the criminal organization offer much higher amounts than the organizer offered in this case, so these amounts were rejected, and for the organizer in this subject is accepted."
He said he didn't want to talk about names. "It is well known to the public. Not because I shy away from names, but neither are my cases, I am not sure what the amounts are, but I am sure that this relationship is like that".
When asked what is the reason for such uneven practice, he says that the court should ask that.
"It remains for us to first fight against such decisions through legal means. To possibly consider an initiative for a request for the protection of legality against such a court decision, after that option becomes possible and leads to a certain decision, then we will decide on further steps," he concluded. Radonjic.
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