A glamorous state official has resigned after the leak of a sex tape allegedly showing her and a married adviser to the president of Montenegro.
Mirjana Pajković, the director general for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, resigned from her prestigious position on Friday after the compromising material was shared on social media.
Her departure from her role comes just weeks after the man alleged to be in the video, former National Security Agency director Dejan Vukšić, left his job as adviser to the country’s president.
Both of them cited ‘personal reasons’ upon leaving their jobs and both have traded accusations as part of a spiralling scandal.
Before she resigned, Ms Pajković filed three complaints with police against Mr Vukšić, alleging that the former intelligence director had leaked sensitive material of her online.
Mr Vukšić denied any involvement in the appearance of explicit recordings on the internet.
Referring to Ms Pajković by her initials, he said: ‘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.’
For his part, Mr Vukšić accused Ms Pajković of ‘illegally taking away his mobile phone’ in October 2024 adding that it was ‘then misused’ which ‘grossly violated his privacy’. He filed a police report about the incident earlier this month.
Mirjana Pajković (pictured), the director general in Montenegro for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, resigned from her prestigious position
Former National Security Agency director Dejan Vukšić (pictured) resigned from his post as presidential adviser in December
Mr Vukšić accused Ms Pajković of stealing his phone in October 2024
He claimed this was why a controversial audio recording was made in which he allegedly threatened Ms Pajković. In one recording, he can allegedly be heard warning ‘all of Montenegro will see’ compromising material of Ms Pajković.
Mr Vukšić alleged that after his phone was taken, he began receiving ‘disturbing messages’ from an unknown number in March 2025, with the person on the other end of the phone threatening to leak the audio recording if he did not renounce his candidacy to become a judge in the country’s Constitutional Court.
He said: ‘I believe that M.P. in this way, directly or indirectly, alone or through persons to whom she enabled the use of the content from her phone, attempted to exert unauthorised influence on the procedure for electing a judge of the Constitutional Court.
‘On this occasion, I filed a complaint with the Police Department against M.P. … for attempted blackmail, theft and misuse of the phone, for which M.P. was questioned.’
The married official also accused Ms Pajković of contacting him and attempting to blackmail him into supporting her nomination for a major promotion.
He claimed she told him he needed to ‘do something for her’ to ‘make amends’.
Revenge porn is a serious crime in Montenegro. Those convicted of illegally distributing someone else’s explicit material can be punished with up to five years in prison.