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We insist that Maja Jovanovi\u0107, Acting Supreme State Prosecutor, determine without delay whether there were omissions in the work and investigation of the Special State Prosecutor Sanja Jovi\u0107evi\u0107, and of course, that the Special State Prosecutor’s Office file an appeal against such a verdict.<\/p>\n
Let us remind that MANS reported Mugo\u0161a back in 2007 for illegal sale of land to “Carine” after the tender procedure was suspended, within which “Carine” offered over 13 million euros for the land in question, and then ceded it to the same company for only 2.5 million euros, just a few months after the tender was suspended due to the withdrawal of “Carine”. That criminal report was rejected in 2008 by Sa\u0161a \u010ca\u0111enovi\u0107, then deputy prosecutor in the Basic State Prosecutor’s Office in Podgorica, and now Special State Prosecutor.<\/p>\n
MANS then filed two more criminal charges for this case, the first after the Basic Court in Podgorica annulled the decision to cede the land to “Carine” in 2010, on the appeal of other bidders in the tender, and the second in 2012 – after Mugo\u0161a signed another decision on the transfer of land to Carine, for an identical, contentious amount of 2.5 million euros, and despite changes in planning documentation that have occurred in the meantime, which further increased the value of the land. The latest report also charged \u010cedomir Popovi\u0107, the owner of the company “Carine”, for whom it was never determined whether and in what way he influenced Mugo\u0161a, as well as the amount of benefits that Popovi\u0107 and his company gained in this procedure.<\/p>\n
However, Mugo\u0161a was questioned in the Special State Prosecutor\u2019s Office only in 2017, a full ten years after the case took place, and the High Court could confirm the indictment in the spring of 2018. Later, the indictment was not confirmed for Mugo\u0161a’s closest associates at the time. After four years and more delays, Special State Prosecutor Sanja Jovi\u0107evi\u0107 still failed to prove in court that Mugo\u0161a defrauded the budget of the Capital City Podgorica in the amount of 6.7 million euros, a figure determined by experts during the trial.<\/p>\n
Due to all the above, it is necessary to conduct a control of the work of Special State Prosecutor Sanja Jovi\u0107evi\u0107 without delay, and determine whether the State Prosecutor\u2019s Office is responsible for this outcome of the indictment, which was allegedly based on a years-long investigation.<\/p>\n
All the evidence still available to the public clearly indicates serious suspicions that Mugo\u0161a grossly violated the law by insisting on selling the land to “Carine” at a much lower price than the market price, and later even despite the changes in planning documentation that caused additional growth in the value of city plots.<\/p>\n
This is a case that is extremely important for the integrity of the new composition of the State Prosecutor\u2019s Office, because it is about possible highest-level corruption. Any “useful error” and\/or “ambiguity” in conducting this investigation should be investigated and severely sanctioned.<\/p>\n
MANS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 After the High Court of Montenegro, i.e. the council chaired by Judge Vesna Pean, made a decision today that Miomir Mugo\u0161a did not abuse his official position in the sale of city construction land to the company “Carine”, we expect a prompt reaction from the Supreme and Special State Prosecutor’s Office. We insist that<\/p>\n