Cyprus will not extradite to Montenegro the Israeli citizen Joram Frig (53), who is wanted for assisting in an attempt at terrorism on the day of the parliamentary elections in 2016, and whose detention was terminated yesterday.
Frig was arrested on April 20 in Nicosia, according to the international warrant of Interpol Podgorica.
The issuance of the warrant was requested by the Special State Prosecutor's Office headed by Milivoje Katnić.
This was done after they expanded the investigation into attempted terrorism and ordered the investigation of eight foreign nationals allegedly led by Joseph Assad.
At the end of April, the Ministry of Justice of Montenegro sent a letter of request to the authorities in Cyprus requesting the extradition of an Israeli citizen.
The local authorities rejected their request yesterday and Frigo's extradition detention was lifted.
The interlocutor of "Vijesti" claims that the Cypriot authorities requested additional documentation from the local SDT, and then assessed that there were no elements for extradition.
The authorities of the United Arab Emirates also refused earlier to extradite Assad to Montenegro.
A former operative of the American Security Agency (CIA) was arrested at the Abu Dhabi airport in September on a warrant from Podgorica, but was released shortly after at the request of the United States of America (USA).
Asad is the director of the Abu Dhabi-based security agency Peregrine Consultants, which is co-owned by his wife Michelle, a former CIA agent.
According to the indictment of the SDT, in 2016, Assad, on behalf of the Democratic Front (DF), requested help from the American private security agency for counterintelligence surveillance and the extraction of personnel after planned terrorist attacks during the elections.
On May 2016, the Podgorica High Court handed down a first-instance verdict to the leaders of the Front, Serbian and Russian citizens accused of attempted terrorism in 9.
The president of the panel, judge Suzana Mugoša, then announced that the court made a true verdict, independently and without any influence.
Democratic Front leaders Andrija Mandić and Milan Knežević were sentenced to five years in prison each.
The opposition MPs announced that they were convicted without any evidence. They said that they would know how to deal with the "bloodsuckers" if they tried to arrest them.
Russian Eduard Shishmakov was sentenced to the maximum prison sentence. He was sentenced to 15 years for terrorism in the attempt and creation of a criminal organization, while his compatriot Vladimir Popov was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the same criminal acts.
The former commander of the Serbian Gendarmerie, Bratislav Dikić, was sentenced to a single sentence of eight years in prison for terrorism in an attempt to aid and abet the creation of a criminal organization, and Predrag Bogićević and Nemanja Ristić to seven years for the same crimes.
Šišmakov, Popov, Bogićević and Ristic were tried in absentia. And their home countries refused to extradite them to Montenegro.
By an invalid verdict, Srboljub Đorđević and Milan Dušić were sentenced to one and a half years in prison, Branka Milić to three years in prison, Dragan Maksić to one year and nine months in prison, while Kristina Hristić was given a suspended sentence.
The driver of the Democratic Front, Mihailo Čađenović, was sentenced to one year and six months in prison.
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