Instead of acting on our criminal charges, the State Prosecutor’s Office is again persecuting MANS because it points to possible cases of corruption and illegalities in the work of prosecutors.
Dejan Milovac, the Deputy Executive Director of MANS, was questioned today in the Basic State Prosecutor’s Office upon the report filed against him by the Mayor of Podgorica, Ivan Vuković.
Vuković’s report states that in the “Toškovići” case, the motive for the criminal report filed by MANS was political discrediting of the Mayor of Podgorica, and that Milovac did so with premeditation in order to harm him. From the very content of Vuković’s report, it is clear to us that it was not aimed at any “correction of injustice” caused to him, but only to exert pressure in order to stop the investigative work of MANS.
That this was a coordinated attack is also confirmed by the fact that the day before that hearing, the Chief Special Prosecutor, Milivoje Katnić, attacked Milovac accusing MANS of not filing indictments and arresting the suspects.
Therefore, Katnić attacks MANS for not doing his job, and when we file criminal charges and submit evidence, as in the case of Vuković, then the State Prosecutor’s Office rejects them, and interrogates us because we dared to detect corruption.
The very State Prosecutor’s Office had the only results in the fight against high corruption precisely in those cases that were reported by MANS. Thanks to our reports, Marović, Pavićević and Kuljača, who passed away in the meantime, were also convicted, while Mugoša is currently on trial. These reports were previously rejected or placed in a drawer by the prosecution, and activated only after obtaining political approval.
Now, the State Prosecutor’s Office is questioning Milovac because he reported the new mayor of Podgorica as well. Thus, in that case, the prosecution is questioning us because we have exposed what they were not allowed, did not want or were not able to do.
While they are proving by this proceeding as well that they are acting on the political orders of the former regime, everyone knows that dismissals of the leading people in the prosecution are certain and justified. Therefore, we understand that these actions against MANS are only a part of the obvious frustration and despair of the outgoing staff of DPS prosecutors.
We expect that the new prosecutors will reopen the case of Vuković and the like, but also investigate why the State Prosecutor’s Office led by Katnić covered them up.
MANS
