Why are the bank accounts of Novović and the SSPO team a state secret?

Those who can investigate the accounts of citizens do not like anyone having insight into their own wallets. This is the message sent by the leaders of the Special State Prosecutor’s Office, who have reported their income and assets to the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption.

Chief Special Prosecutor Vladimir Novović, his deputy Miloš Šoškić, and SSPO spokesperson Vukas Radonjić did not grant consent for access to their bank accounts and accounts in other financial organizations.

Unlike this secrecy, the reported annual income of the head of the SSPO and his wife is known.

NOVOVIĆ’S RECORD

Chief Special Prosecutor Vladimir Novović and his wife Lidija Novović, a judge of the Administrative Court of Montenegro, earned a total of 81,167 euros last year. They received 80,537 euros from salaries and per diems paid from the state budget, while 630 euros was paid to Novović as rental income.

Vladimir Novović earned a total of 46,150 euros from his work at the SSPO, while he earned 9,658 euros during 2025 from membership in the Council for the Rule of Law and the Program Board of the Training Center for the Judiciary and State Prosecutor’s Office. He is also the sole owner of a 69-square-meter apartment acquired through purchase.

THE ŠOŠKIĆ FAMILY – OVER 200,000 EUROS INCOME

By far the wealthiest special prosecutor is Miloš Šoškić. The Deputy Chief Special Prosecutor and his wife, forensic medicine specialist Ivana Čurović Šoškić, earned 216,637 euros in the previous year.

Miloš Šoškić earned 37,451 euros from his position at the SSPO and was also engaged as a lecturer at the Training Center for the Judiciary and State Prosecutor’s Office, as well as a lecturer for the OSCE. For these engagements, he earned 3,397 euros, while he received 5,265 euros for membership in the Coordination Body for drafting the national risk assessment of money laundering and terrorist financing. Šoškić also reported income from two rental properties totaling 10,200 euros, as well as 28,046 euros paid to him by a High Court judgment.

He reported ownership of a 75-square-meter apartment, purchased in 2019, as well as another 63-square-meter apartment acquired through a gift contract in 2025. 

His wife earned a total of 130,178 euros last year from salary, overtime work at the Clinical Center, and court expert testimony. The report also states that she earned 1,800 euros from rental income. According to the report, Miloš Šoškić has 2,996 euros and 3,251 euros across four current accounts, while his wife Ivana has a total of 70,068 euros across two accounts.

An 86-square-meter apartment is registered in the name of his wife Ivana Čurović Šoškić, which she purchased in 2017.

THE RADONJIĆ FAMILY – THREE APARTMENTS

It is also interesting to examine the asset report of the SSPO spokesperson Vukas Radonjić, the person who most frequently speaks on behalf of the Special State Prosecutor’s Office.

He earned a total of 38,802 euros last year from salary, lecture fees at the Training Center for the Judiciary and State Prosecutor’s Office, and lectures at the Police Academy in Danilovgrad.

His wife Bisera Radonjić, a prosecutor at the Basic Prosecutor’s Office in Podgorica, reported total income of 22,348 euros from salary and rental income.

The Radonjić couple owns three apartments: two of 88 square meters each and one of 61 square meters.

SECRETS REMAIN SECRETS

Why did the three leading figures of the Special State Prosecutor’s Office refuse to allow access to their bank accounts?

All of this remains shrouded in secrecy. It is strange that people who, by the nature of their job, investigate citizens’ bank accounts in many situations do not want the public to know about their own financial flows.

But apparently, they can get away with it. After all, who would initiate proceedings to examine the origin of assets of state officials - the Special State Prosecutor’s Office itself?