The retrial of Darko Saric and other defendants accused of smuggling 5,7 tons of cocaine from Latin America to Western Europe was postponed until March because his lawyers requested the exemption of organized crime prosecutor Mladen Nenadić and his deputy Saša Ivanić.
The Judicial Council had to postpone today's hearing until the decision on the request for disqualification of the prosecutor, which should be made by the Public Prosecutor of the Republic.
On Tuesday, Šarić's defense attorneys submitted a request to the court to disqualify the prosecutors, claiming that in the last trial, when the SMS correspondence was reviewed, Ivanić abused his position and the message that Šarić's daughter sent from her phone to friends on her return from vacation, as a message from Darko Šarić.
They also claim that Ivanić facilitated the return of property to associate witness Nebojša Joksović in exchange for false testimony against their client.
Šarić's defense attorneys stated that the prosecutor sent a letter to the Cadastre Department in Čajetina to invalidate, that is, to delete the ban on the alienation of a plot of five and a half hectares in Zlatibor, which, they claim, enabled Joksović to sell that plot whose value higher than ten million euros.
As reported by Tanjug, they noted that Joksović is now the richest cooperating witness in the history of the Serbian judiciary.
A decision on the requests for exemption is expected until the continuation of the trial, which is scheduled for March 6, 7 and 8.
At the beginning of the repeated trial in September, Šarić and the others denied the crimes they were accused of, while the prosecution stood by its accusations and proposed evidence.
In the Special Court in Belgrade, Šarić is being tried in a special proceeding on charges of money laundering in Serbia by injecting money obtained from cocaine smuggling into legal channels, and tomorrow another trial will begin for him for falsified Croatian documents in the name of Tomislav Savatović before the Third Basic Court in Belgrade.
The trial will take place in the special courtroom of the District Prison in Belgrade, where Šarić is staying because he has been in custody since March 2014.
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