For a month now, Montenegro has been shaken by the “explicit footage” affair, allegedly involving now former state officials Dejan Vukšić and Mirjana Pajković.
Both submitted their resignations after intimate content went viral, accompanied by numerous mutual accusations, criminal complaints, and even threats made from a landline phone in the office of the President of Montenegro, Jakov Milatović.
Vukšić is the former director of the National Security Agency (ANB) and a former adviser to President Milatović, and he resigned from his post at the ANB at the end of last year after Pajković filed criminal complaints against him.
On the other hand, Pajković submitted her resignation on Friday from the position of State Secretary at the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights after recordings containing explicit sexual content spread in public.
Both cited “personal reasons” for their resignations
Interestingly, both explained their resignations by citing personal reasons. In a statement, Vukšić denied any involvement in the appearance of explicit recordings on the internet.
“I reject all inaccurate, incomplete, and tendentious allegations by which, without evidence, responsibility is being attributed to me for the violation of M. P.’s privacy and the distribution of the disputed recordings. I saw that content for the first time only when it began to circulate illegally on social networks,” Vukšić stated.
Vukšić claims that Pajković “misappropriated” his mobile phone in October 2024
As he stated, in October 2024 Pajković “unlawfully misappropriated my mobile phone, which was subsequently abused,” thereby “grossly violating my privacy.”
Vukšić claims that this led to the disputed audio recording in which his voice can be heard threatening Mirjana Pajković, allegedly from a landline phone in the office of the President of Montenegro.
“Competent authorities possess information about that event. The words I addressed to M. P. on that occasion, which were selectively published with a time delay of one year and three months, were an immediate reaction to the theft and abuse of my phone,” Vukšić stated, among other things, adding that there is a conscious “attempt to substitute theses” in which he, “as the injured party,” is being “presented as the perpetrator of a criminal offense.”
“In March 2025, I received a disturbing message”
As he says, in March 2025, from an unknown number, he received “disturbing messages” containing the mentioned audio recording with his voice, along with a clear threat and an attempt at blackmail to “withdraw from the candidacy for a judge of the Constitutional Court,” which, as he said, he understood as a message that the audio recording would be published if he did not follow the “instructions.”
“I believe that M. P., in this way, directly or indirectly, alone or through persons to whom she enabled access to the content from her phone, attempted to exert undue influence on the process of electing a judge of the Constitutional Court. On that occasion, I filed a report with the Police Directorate against M. P. and unknown persons for attempted extortion, theft, and abuse of a phone, after which M. P. was questioned,” Vukšić said.
He added that afterward Pajković “contacted him by phone,” stating that he needed to “do something for her,” that is, to “redeem himself,” which he sees as an attempt to put his influence “into the function of her nomination for the position of Ombudsman and another attempt at blackmail.” As he says, he refused that meeting.
At the end of December, Pajković filed criminal complaints against Vukšić
Vukšić added that at the end of December 2025, M. P. filed a complaint against him, submitting the same audio recording and “creating a false impression that it was a recent event, concealing the fact that the event occurred more than a year earlier and that she had already been questioned regarding the same audio recording for attempted extortion.”
“In January 2026, I submitted additional material evidence to the Police Directorate, then filed a complaint against M. P. for false reporting related to the distribution of disputed photographs and video recordings on social networks, and insisted on polygraph testing,” Vukšić said, among other things.
Complaint also announced against an MP in the Parliament of Montenegro
He announced that, “in order to protect personal integrity and the safety of his family,” he would file complaints and initiate proceedings against all persons who, as he says, falsely accused him via social networks, issued threats, insults, and calls for lynching.
He added that he would also file a complaint against a “member of the Parliament of Montenegro” who publicly labeled him a “violent person.”
“The truth in this case will not be established on social networks or in the media, but exclusively before the competent institutions. I am ready for such an outcome and insist on it,” Vukšić concluded.
Pajković filed three criminal complaints before resigning
Before submitting her resignation, Pajković filed three criminal complaints with the police for the unauthorized distribution of explicit content—a photograph featuring her.
According to the complaint, she suspects that the former director of the National Security Agency (ANB), Dejan Vukšić, aware of the illegality, attempted to use information he obtained by virtue of the position he held, that he threatened with such material, and that he indirectly spoke about the existence of compromising material in one television show.
She released a recording of Vukšić allegedly threatening her
In one of the audio recordings that Pajković publicly released, Vukšić can allegedly be heard threatening that “the whole of Montenegro will see” compromising photographs and recordings of the former public official.
“The Agency lawfully performs tasks within its jurisdiction and fully respects constitutionally guaranteed rights. Private correspondence and content that are the subject of comments are not of interest to the Agency and, as such, cannot be linked to the ANB,” the Agency stated.
It is not known whether this case will receive a judicial epilogue, as the Prosecutor’s Office has not yet commented on the matter.
Penalty for revenge pornography up to five years in prison
According to the Criminal Code of Montenegro, any misuse of another person’s recording, photograph, portrait, audio recording, or sexually explicit content can be punished by up to five years in prison, and if the criminal offense is committed against a child, the perpetrator may be sentenced to between two and ten years in prison.
This concerns so-called revenge pornography, as it is colloquially referred to in practice and in the public sphere, that is, a criminal offense that was relatively recently included in the Criminal Code of Montenegro.
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