The purpose of this report is to provide a clearer picture of the results made by the judiciary in the fight against orruption.
In the process of European integration, concrete results are expected from Montenegro’s judiciary in the fight against corruption, especially at a high level. Official statistics and reports on the results of the judiciary and the State Prosecutor’s Office have been assessed as unreliable and inconsistent for years, and it is not possible to find out from them what level of corruption was the subject of court proceedings, i.e. whether there are proceedings against high officials and what are their outcomes.
Courts post verdicts on their websites, but corruption-related cases are not singled out. Thus, from this it is also not possible to get a clear picture of the results of the judiciary in this area.
Thanks to the support of the European Union, MANS monitors the work of the judiciary in the fight against corruption, and the goal of our monitoring reports is to provide a clearer insight into the results of the judiciary and the State Prosecutor’s Office. MANS is monitoring and analyzing all cases of corruption that are within competence of the Special State Prosecutor’s Office for corruption, organized crime and war crimes, i.e. of the High, Appellate and Supreme Court.
This is the first monitoring report that contains an overview and analysis of data for the past five years. Data are related to the level of corruption and the structure of the accused and convicted of corruption.
Second part of this report relates to liability in the judiciary and, in addition to analysis of the legal framework, it also includes statistical data, as well as case studies related to disciplinary proceedings against judges and prosecutors conducted from 2013. to 2018.
All data from the report, as well as the database of final court verdicts for corruption adopted in the last five years are available at www.mans.co.me.
- Complete report download HERE (PDF)
