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The Special State Prosecutor's Office has formed a criminal case against certain members of the Radio and Television Council of Montenegro, SDT spokesman Vukas Radonjić told Pobjeda.
Radonjić said that certain written and electronic evidence, notifications and data from the Radio and Television Council of Montenegro were collected during the investigation.
That material is currently being considered, in order to decide how the work in the case will continue - announced Radonjić.
On June 16 of this year, the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica submitted to this prosecutor's office a criminal case against certain members of the Council of Radio and Television of Montenegro, as the actual authority, because public officials were also reported for the criminal offense of abuse of official position.
The criminal case was formed based on the criminal report of the NGO Media Center from Podgorica.
The media center filed a lawsuit against the president and members of the Council of RTCG Veselin Drljević, Filip Lazović, Naod Zorić, Predrag Miranović, Amina Murić, because as public officials they refused to execute a final and enforceable court verdict and enabled the acquisition of illegal benefits to the illegally elected General Director of RTCG Boris Raonić. .
The spokesman of the SDT said that the SDT cannot provide information about the conclusions reached so far, in order not to jeopardize the purpose of the procedure.
And from the Basic State Prosecutor's Office, Pobjeda confirmed this morning that the case was formed against RTCG General Director Boris Raonić, RTCG lawyer Zorica Đukanović and the head of the legal department of the Public Service Želimir Mićović by submitting it to the SDT.
Thus, the SDT will assess whether their actions contain the criminal offense of abuse of official position through incitement or some other criminal offense for which the SDT is competent.
Raonić, Mićović and Đukanović were heard on June 22 at the Basic State Prosecutor's Office as suspects for the criminal offense of failure to execute a court verdict through incitement.
Raonić, Đukanović and Mićović were interrogated following a report from the Media Center, because they incited the president and members of the RTCG Council to commit the criminal offense of non-execution of a legally binding and enforceable court verdict and enabled the acquisition of illegal benefits to the illegally elected General Director of RTCG Boris Raonić, thereby committing the criminal offense of incitement to the commission of the criminal offense referred to in Article 24 of the Criminal Code of Montenegro.
On June 1, Raonic was re-appointed as CEO, despite a final High Court ruling, according to which he was elected illegally in August 2021 - because he was in a conflict of interest. At the time of the election, Raonic was already holding another public office - a member of the Council of the Electronic Media Agency. This was a violation of the Law on the National Public Broadcaster.
As a legal recommendation, the High Court then gave the Council two options - to announce a new competition or to choose a new director from the remaining candidates who applied in 2021.
The legal consequence of the annulment of the appointment decision is a re-selection among the applied candidates or the annulment of the competition, in which the defendant has the opportunity to reconsider the remaining applications and to make a decision in accordance with the law - the judgment reads.
However, on June 1, the Council chose not to announce a new competition, but decided again between Nikola Marković, Milutin Stijepović, Srđan Čović, and Boris Raonic, which is in direct contradiction to the judgment of the High Court, which orders that in the repeated procedure the selection can only be done from the remaining candidates.
Veselin Drljević (president), Filip Lazović, Naod Zorić, Predrag Miranović, Amina Murić took part in declaring the list of candidates. Four votes were for Raonic, and one ballot was invalid, that is, no candidate was selected.
Before the vote, the vice-president of the Council, Marijana Camović-Veličković, left the session, having previously announced that she would not participate in the decision-making if the majority in the Council, according to the suggestions of the legal service, still persisted, contrary to the court's decision, in not excluding Raonic from the list of candidates from the competition. which was announced on June 17, 2021.
She insisted that the court made it clear in its verdict what it thought about the election of Raonic in 2021 and that the issue should have been put to rest, instead of the legal interpretations of the lawyers representing RTCG in the dispute, who lost, and the legal advisor of the RTCG Council, is trying to enable Raonic to sit in the same seat again.
For the same reason, Milica Špajak was excluded from the secret ballot, who announced during the discussion that she would not participate if the prevailing attitude was to go to a vote on the appointment of the director from among the candidates, including Raonic.
The session where Raonic was re-elected was not attended by Predrag Marsenić, nor by Bojan Baća, who resigned before the session.
Because of this re-election, the ODT independently filed the case on June 3, and the Media Center also filed a lawsuit. Those cases are consolidated and will be decided by the SDT.
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