Everything was like a partisan film, based on a comic strip, about two young partisans, Mirko and Slavko, who chase the Germans to the brink. And along with them, domestic traitors, to be exact, Metropolitan Joanikije and Tito's pioneer Goran Danilović.
However, Duško and Mišo are not comic book heroes like Mirko and Slavko, nor are they acting legends who portray the main characters - they are former security sector employees, one retired and in pretrial detention as of a few days ago, the other in the parliamentary group of the ruling PES and head of the Security Committee.
No one suspected that there were any points of contact between the controversial Golubović and the ruling Laković, until the day before yesterday, without any provocation, Mišo admitted everything himself. What it looks like when a police officer turns into a poet, was shown by the Sunday inspired confession of the head of the Security Committee, about the "dog time" and two rookies, who in the distant 1992. made themselves available to the Montenegrin police! Ready to give their lives for justice and the safety of citizens. Despite a salary of 20-30 German marks. The rest is history, which Laković summarizes for us in two sentences: "One will go through the labyrinths of the secret service, the then Department of State Security, acquire significant property, which will be in the process before the prosecutor's office, under suspicion of money laundering. The other will stay there for almost two and a half decades and later, due to unforeseen life circumstances, will get involved in politics."
The most intriguing question raised by Laković's tweet is - why exactly now, when Golubović has been arrested on charges of creating a criminal organization, his generational comrade, "ruki three", decides to share his life story with the Montenegrin public. Various conclusions can be drawn from this multi-layered written composition. For example, Laković regularly writes a diary and creates a herbarium, and then, one day, like on Sunday, he decides to share an episode with us, his future readers. Or, in summarizing his life balance, Mišo wants to highlight his own, positive example, which shows that not everyone, like "ruki one and ruki two", in those dogged times, had to end up on the wrong side of history. Finally, what seems perhaps the most interesting - does the MP and one of the leaders of PES want to send a message to SDT with this intriguing tweet and distance himself from the character and actions of the arrested DG?! How could it not occur to the "indomitable" Novović and Šuković to "raise" Slavko for Mirko's sake? Not even through the form of a statement, in their capacity as citizens, let alone in some more serious way.
I hope and want to believe that everything is fine with the head of the Security Committee, after all, if he had not passed the necessary checks, he would not have been able to lead that parliamentary body. Unless this assessment was made for him by the Service during the time of Savo Kentera, when Savo almost recruited the son of the now suspect Duško Golubović as the "rukie" of the newly reformed Agency?!
Abazović, or one of his followers, can question Laković's advertising by asking why he didn't inform the public about the "significant wealth" of his colleague and classmate Golubović much earlier?! For example, in 2013, when Duško's then twenty-year-old son Luka bought an apartment, a luxury car "Audi S3" and parts of business premises, with a total value of over 200.000 euros. Or in mid-2018, when MANS published a long list of real estate and cars of the Golubović family, with a total value of over 300.000 euros. All of which went from hand to hand, from father to son, from mother to daughter, from son to father, and so on. Laković didn't have to wait for the arrest of the number two rookie to point out the "significant assets" of DG, which are eye-catching and which are "now the subject of the prosecution". He could have done it at the end of 2023, after the then director of the Police Department Nikola Terzić announced that “one of our former colleagues bought a vehicle for 300.000 euros, and until yesterday he was wearing a police badge”! “The next day, the news published information that it was Duško and that the car was a luxury “Lamborghini”. It would have been helpful to the SDT itself in some way if the head of the Security Committee had gone on Twitter at the time and shared a post about life paths that sometimes intersect and sometimes separate. And not to wait for Golubović to be prosecuted, because it turned out like in a partisan comic book - Duško, watch out for the bullet. Thanks, Mišo.
The only thing is we don't know yet which is the First Family and which is the Second Family. I'll leave it to Andrija and Mickey to decide.
But it was not only MP Laković who found it necessary to explain something. After, as one of the experienced, retired police officers told me, the “biggest fish” of the security sector was arrested, the President of the Supreme Court Valentina Pavličić also had a need, not to say a problem. MANS “stepped on a mine” again when, in early 2023, it published evidence about her husband Predrag’s business ties with Tigar and Duško. First, Pavličić’s offshore company traded its vessel for a Bemax apartment, next to the Temple in Podgorica, for a price of only 50 thousand euros. Then, the son-in-law of the President of the Supreme Court sold that apartment to the wife of Duško Golubović. Instead of clarifying the situation, as with MP Laković, things ended up in metaphors and lyrical passages. And the matter was, and is, more than simple. Even if the forgetfulness of reporting this property and transactions to ASK, which was raised by MANS, is eliminated, it is worth mentioning that ASK and the fact that the family of the future president of the Supreme Court trades with Tigar and Duško are both subject to irrelevant "moral responsibility" - then in the sphere of "guilt" there remain questions about possible money laundering or tax evasion. For example, since it is more than obvious that a 49-square-meter apartment in a prime location was worth at least twice as much as the calculated 50 thousand, the question arises whether the contracting parties fraternally agreed to lower the price and thereby defraud the state?! Pavličić, therefore, needs to answer the public how the calculation of the value of the bartered items was arrived at? Was it based on tax returns and catalog values, or from the VAR room? That is, the judge's office?
After calling out MANS, Pavličić announced a lawsuit for defamation, but nothing has come of it so far. After Golubović's arrest, MANS repeated its request to the SDT to review this case, to which the president of the Supreme Court again explained in general and lyrical terms that Vanja Ćalović's "bad intentions" were behind everything. Without any concrete evidence to deny MANS's suspicions and conclusions.
The fact that Golubović's arrest is perhaps the biggest event on the political and security scene since the changes of 2020 is also evidenced by the fact that not only the former regime, or DPS, is now shaking, but also parts of the so-called parliamentary majority. It seems that PES MP Miša Laković is not feeling well, but that at least one other high-ranking official from that party is not feeling well. Sources from the investigation speak of regular contacts between Spajić's close associate and the arrested Golubović. When I asked whether Spajić had information about this, the source from the investigation answered in the affirmative, stating that, after DG's arrest, the Prime Minister personally called Minister Šaranović and asked him to "take the investigation to the end" and that "no one should be spared". I concluded that Spajić is not the same or worse than Mandić. He is asking for a fair and professional investigation, not a cover-up and falsification of evidence, compromising witnesses, in order to surpass Veljović's time in terms of covering up serious crimes and their protagonists, just because they belong to the ruling party or family. Only now we don't know which is the First and which is the Second. I'll leave it to Andrija and Mickey to agree.
Finally, what gives additional weight and importance to this particular case is a detail from the collected works of former Prime Minister Dritan Abazović, which points to the alleged connection of the arrested Golubović, not only with controversial financial transactions, but also with the political assassination of Dan editor-in-chief Duško Jovanović. Abazović reported to the SDT several “operational findings” that indicate Golubović’s alleged role in that operation. Which confirms, if true, the suspicions that the assassination of Jovanović was an organized state crime.
But back to MP Laković. If he hadn't responded via Twitter, and more importantly, if he hadn't written so inspiredly, I probably wouldn't have dedicated today's column to this topic. This way, the story of dog days and the fate of three rukis was more than inspiring. Thank you, Mišo. And watch out for the "bullet".
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