Vuk Vulević from Beran sued the state of Montenegro and is seeking compensation for the "unfounded four-year detention".
He was accused of attempted murder, and later acquitted of a showdown in Switzerland 17 years ago.
He has not yet specified how much money he is seeking for mental pain due to the unjustified deprivation of liberty, and the trial will begin on February 15 before Podgorica Basic Court judge Vesna Banjević.
Vulević and Zlatko Ajković were accused of having, as co-perpetrators, attempted to kill Faiz Kadrić, Suad Porča, Senad Dunjić, Nedžad Murić, Rešad Meta and Asmir Lubenović on April 16, 1999, in the Zurich cafe-bar Insajder.
According to the indictment, they fired several shots at them. Kadric was hit and died, and the others were injured.
Vulević was acquitted due to lack of evidence, while Ajković was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
"The allegations in the indictment that Vulević, together with Ajković, killed Kadrić and injured several people in the cafe-bar Insajder, together with Ajković, have not been confirmed. Based on the statement of the witness Senad Dunjić, Vulević was in the bar and this has been confirmed. The witness Suad Porča said "is that they found the guests in the bar, where a fight and shooting ensued, but that he did not see who was shooting. The court acted more leniently on the defendant due to suspicion, so in the absence of evidence, he acquitted Vulević of the accusation," the explanation of the High Court's verdict reads.
That decision was later confirmed by the Court of Appeal, with the fact that it reduced Ajković's sentence from 14 to 12 years in prison.
Vulević was linked to numerous criminal acts, among others, for smuggling 200 kilograms of cocaine from Venezuela to Montenegro and Serbia in 2005.
He was also arrested on suspicion of being a member of a criminal group that ordered the murder of police inspector Slavoljub Šćekić, but due to a lack of evidence, he was also acquitted.
He was also deprived of his freedom due to accusations that he participated in the murder of the editor-in-chief of "Dan" Duško Jovanović, but he was never charged with that crime.
The media wrote that the prosecutor's office in Zurich did not accept the acquittal decision of the Podgorica High Court and that they launched a new investigation.
For this reason, the Swiss prosecutor's office asked the Cantonal Court in Zurich to issue a warrant for Vulević and inform Interpol in that country about it.
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