Aleksandar Marković from Podgorica said yesterday that the indictment against him and Michael Gregori Ferraris reminds of a good criminal scenario, but that it has nothing to do with the truth.
The prosecution, however, assessed that the indictment was proven, which is why they asked the High Court to find the defendants guilty and punish them according to the law.
Yesterday, the trial of Ferraris and Marković, who were accused of creating a criminal organization with the aim of committing the most serious crimes, ended with the final words.
The Criminal Panel of Judge Suzana Mugoša will announce the verdict on June 17.
"I decided to join the foreign legion, because I liked being a soldier. In the camp near Paris, I met Ferraris, whom I had known for only 10 days. Now the indictment claims that I decided to hire someone I know so little to the liquidation of people in Montenegro. It is unclear to me how the prosecutor managed to insert me into the story of organized crime. Yes, after returning from Paris, I took the tender ads and found an ad: Organized criminal organization is looking for one member. I also applied. Immediately they hired me, introduced me to the head of the Montenegrin mafia, who said: 'You are good, so organize everything about the murders myself. I then called Ferraris, whom I have known for ten days, and gave him 50.000 euros for those alleged liquidations," said Marković in his final in words.
He repeated that he is not guilty and that the innocent lie in prison.
Special prosecutor Veljko Rutović said that the facts stated in the statement of the defendant Ferraris, which he later denied, were undoubtedly proven at the trial.
"Ferraris, with the help of Marković, crossed the border between Serbia and Montenegro at an illegal crossing in order to cover up the traces that he entered the country at all. Then they arrived in Budva and agreed that Ferraris would be charged for the murder of the owner of the restaurant "Fisherman", as and a four-member family with two minor children, receive 50.000 euros, an amount that was later increased to 70.000 euros," said the prosecutor.
He said that the reason for the liquidation of the owner of the restaurant, Goran Đuričković, was his involvement in the theft of 200 kilograms of heroin in Spain.
"The evidence for that is that Đuričković was wounded a year and a half ago in that very city. Many details, from buying a motorcycle, to renting apartments and cars, indicate that Ferraris experienced it personally, and not as he and his defense are trying to present, that "Someone invented that story and told it to him," Rutović said.
The defense attorney for Ferraris, lawyer Borivoje Borović, stated that the prosecutor failed to prove the indictment with any evidence and that based on the accused's disputed statement to the police, the fight against organized crime cannot be waged.
"It is not necessary to point out that Ferraris was in custody when Đuričković was killed and that Saša Marković, Đuričković's godfather, was liquidated in the period when my client was not even in the country".
Lawyer Dražen Medojević, Marković's defense attorney, pointed out that from the beginning, the defense pointed to manipulations during the preparation of Ferraris' testimony.
"There is no evidence that Marković participated in anything stated in the indictment and his only guilt is that he was friends with Ferraris," Medojević said.
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