The Court of Appeal confirmed the acquittal of Vjekoslav Lambulić, who was accused of smuggling 25 kilograms of cocaine from Belgrade to Oslo.
The first-instance acquittal in the High Court in Podgorica was pronounced by the criminal panel of judge Suzana Mugoša.
She stated at the time that it was not proven that Lambulić was the person named as the organizer of cocaine smuggling in the final judgment of the District Court in Hanover. With that verdict, as the judge said, it is indisputable that Ranko Krstović, Mileta Zvicer and Aleksander Krekler were convicted.
"The state prosecutor's appeal contested the verdict on the basis of an erroneously determined factual situation, which, according to the appeal, was the result of the court's erroneous conclusion, which it reached by evaluating the evidence presented... The statements of directly heard witnesses do not even point to the accused as the perpetrator... Properly is the conclusion of the High Court that in this particular case the judgment and the factual situation in relation to Lambulić could not be based on the final judgments of the Provincial Court in Hanover... This is because the proceedings before the judicial authorities in Hanover were not conducted against Lambulić, nor was in those proceedings, any evidence was proposed and presented that would indicate the existence of a criminal offense and his guilt for that offense," the judgment of the Appellate Court reads.
According to the unproven indictment, from November 15 to December 20, 2002, Lambulić put cocaine on the market in the territory of Serbia and Montenegro, Germany and Norway.
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