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The Belgrade High Court will decide today whether to return the passport to Shefšet Demirovski, suspected of giving bribes to the workers of the Užice company “Prvi partizan”, to deliver confidential documentation on the manufacture of weapons and to repeal the obligation to inform the police. Demirovski was ordered to leave his place of residence, temporarily confiscate his travel document and report to PS Palilula on the 1st and 15th of the month a year ago, when his detention was lifted because the court accepted his 200,000 euro bail.
The information about the decision in relation to Demirovski is interesting, apart from the fact that members of the BIA and the VOA participated in his arrest in mid-November of last year, who had followed him for months for being suspected of participating in the “acquisition” illegal document for the production of ammunition, it is interesting. It is also due to the “correspondence” of their lawyers and the competent court.
Since Demirovski was released on bail, his defense claims that there is no reason why this Macedonian citizen should not have his passport returned and allowed to travel to Skopje, where he runs a company employing 500 people. So far, the court has rejected proposals to repeal the measures on three occasions. As reasons for the extension of the prohibition measure to leave the place of residence, it is stated that Demirovski is a citizen of North Macedonia, that he has no registered residence or real estate in Serbia, that he is the owner of a Skopje-based company, that his family lives in Istanbul or that is a person. whose center of life activities is not in Serbia and that all the above circumstances indicate the danger of flight.
Contrary to the court’s arguments, Demirovski’s defense lawyers point out that an “abbreviated procedure” is being carried out against his client, as well as that the act for which he is suspected is punishable from three months to three years.
– Even after a year, the Superior Prosecutor’s Office did not file a charge against Demirovski. The expertise of the protected data is in progress, which is extremely complex, which was also confirmed by the expert. Therefore, it is not clear how long this experience will last. It must be taken into account that no other evidentiary actions have been carried out for a long time, that the accused have been questioned and witnesses examined, and that the next procedural action in which the presence of the accused is necessary is actually present in the main trial , if it ever takes place. among other things, in the proposal of the defendant’s defense to lift the measures against Demirovski.
As an argument that the measures for the citizen of North Macedonia should be revoked, the defense lawyers also express the consent in writing of the VJT of August 18 this year, that “the defendant Demirovski is prohibited from leaving his place of residence, return your travel document and RS MUP report “. The court’s position to extend the measures pronounced to the accused, according to the position of the defense attorneys, is a precedent, considering that the Prosecutor’s Office, which is leading the ongoing investigation, does not propose something like that.
– In support of our proposal, we also cite judicial practice. That is, by decision of the Special Department of the Belgrade High Court of April 20, 2016, the defendant A. MI. A bail of 280,000 euros was imposed, after which he was released to defend himself, and he is charged with the commission of the crime of money laundering, a significantly more serious crime than that charged to the defendant Demirovski in the case at hand. Due to the actions of the High Court in this particular case, Demirovski turned to the Constitutional Court of Serbia and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, according to the lawyers.
When asked about the “Demirovski” case, the Belgrade High Court told our newspaper that lawyers had repeatedly suggested that the defendant be removed from the residence ban and that his passport be returned, at the same time stating that I was ready to deposit additional funds. the name of the amount of the deposit, so the total amount would be one million euros and that if the amount indicated is not adequate, they leave the possibility of increasing it.
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