The Vice-President of Democratic Montenegro, Vladimir Martinović, assessed that the Government and the Minister of Justice, Zoran Pažin, are avoiding announcing that Miloš Marović's one-year prison sentence has expired and that the statute of limitations will also begin in September in the case of his father, Svetozar Marović.
The judgments of the High Court in Podgorica, by which Svetozar Marović was sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison, and his son Miloš to one year in prison, were pronounced in August and September 2016 and soon after they were pronounced, they became final and enforceable. .
Martinović said that by avoiding submitting a request for his extradition to Montenegro, the Government and relevant Minister Pažin ensured that the younger Marović could avoid serving a one-year prison sentence.
The request to the Republic of Serbia that the one-year prison sentence be carried out there is, as Martinović assessed, "farcical and part of the overall show for the public".
"Almost certain, the execution of the one-year sentence for Miloš Marović is time-barred, because more than two years have passed since the day of the final conviction for one year in prison, which, in accordance with Article 126 of the Criminal Code, fulfills the conditions for the statute of limitations on the execution of the sentence," Martinović pointed out at the conference for the media.
He clarified that even after more than half a year, the Democrats have not received an answer from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) of Montenegro to the questions of when, how and under what conditions "the fugitive DPS ideologue Svetozar Marović" left Montenegro:
"In this particular case, the silence of the Minister of Internal Affairs, Mevludin Nuhodžić, significantly exceeds the importance of ignoring the request of the member of the Parliament of Montenegro and his right to receive an answer to the question".
Martinović said that by submitting a petition to the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Serbia for the extradition of Svetozar Marović to Montenegro, the Government and Minister Pažin "finally admitted that they have brazenly and recklessly misled the public for the past two and a half years."
He clarified that the Democrats on 16.11. In 2018, they received a reply from Pažin that the deprivation of liberty of Svetozar Marović is a condition for submitting a request for his extradition.
"In this way, Pažin tried to justify the fact that in the previous two years he did not violate the ratified extradition treaty between Montenegro and Serbia, that is, that he did not submit a request for the extradition of the fugitive DPS ideologues Svetozar Marović and Miloš Marović, which he was obliged to to do," said Martinović.
He pointed out that Svetozar Marović is also "smiling about the statute of limitations on the execution of prison sentences, because in September of this year it will be three years since he was convicted, which is a condition for the statute of limitations on the execution of the sentence."
Martinović said that "it is more than obvious that the regime in Montenegro made a show in which it tried to declare that even the highest officials of the ruling DPS cannot escape the hand of justice":
"A reckless mockery of justice is clearly at work. The director of this play is... without any doubt the president of the DPS, Milo Đukanović, who is aware that the fugitive ideologist of the DPS, Svetozar Marović, knows a lot of things that, if it gets to the public, could come to his head politically, and that is why this performance".
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