The hearing of Vesna Ječmenica, Assistant Executive Director for Finance at Airports of Montenegro, continued today at the Higher Court in Podgorica, in the case against businessman Duško Knežević and his associates.
Ječmenica, as a witness, stated that the email in which her associate Milica Ivanović requested the rescheduling of three million euros in Atlas Bank was "clumsy wording" and that the decision to rescheduling could only have been made by the then director Danilo Orlandić. Duško Knežević's defense described her testimony as scandalous, claiming that representatives of Aerodrom knowingly led Atlas Bank into legal error.
According to the indictment, the former owner of Atlas Bank, Duško Knežević, is accused of inciting bank managers to abuse their positions in order to keep three million euros in deposits from JP Aerodromi Crne Gore.
"This statement by Vesna Ječmenica is completely scandalous, and I said in the courtroom that this statement is an insult to my intelligence and to the entire court, and it is obvious from her statement what we have been saying from the start, which is that the authorized representatives and the representatives of the Airport, specifically in relation to this case, consciously and intentionally and tendentiously led Atlas Banka Crne Gore into a real and legal delusion that the deposit in question would be rescheduled for a second time, that is, that this temporary administration and moratorium that no one from the bank could have assumed or expected at that moment, nor during August, September and October 2018 were there any indications that the bank was in problems, that there was anything disputable on their part towards Aeroroms, that some facts were concealed or that Aeroroms were misled. Therefore, it is completely ruled out that there are any significant elements of the criminal offenses that are being charged against my client and the other defendants, and on the other hand it is very debatable that "We have reasonable suspicions, and it follows from the evidence collected and the case files that certain representatives of the Airport may have committed elements of some other criminal offenses, and we will comment on that later," said Duško Knežević's lawyer, Andrijana Razić.
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