The higher court in Podgorica confirmed the indictment for cigarette smuggling against nine defendants for cigarette smuggling.
According to the indictment, during 2018 Duško Nikaljević and Đoka Camaj organized a criminal organization in the territory of Montenegro, Serbia, Italy and European countries for the purpose of smuggling cigarettes on the gray market of Serbia and Montenegro.
The Special Prosecutor's Office identified Filip Nikaljević, Nikola Matović, Vukašin Matović, Borivoj Matović, Adnan Suković, Miroslav Ivezić and Zdravko Luković as members of this criminal organization.
The Appellate Court of Montenegro, during the extension of custody in the criminal case against the defendant Camaj Đoka and others, due to the well-founded suspicion that he committed the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization and smuggling, stated that based on the evaluation of the evidence from the case file of the first-instance court, the defendant Camaj was reasonably suspected of committed the criminal acts charged against him. In other words, it is suspected that he and Nikaljević Duška formed a criminal organization at the beginning of 2019, on the territory of Montenegro and other countries, to which organization they recruited members of the criminal organization, and who accepted membership: NF, MV, MB, legal entity "TG". doo Kotor, MN, SA, IM and other unidentified persons for the purpose of obtaining illegal profits and power. Suspect Camaj, who is reasonably suspected of being the organizer of a criminal organization, determined for himself to recruit other members of the criminal organization, to acquire non-customs goods - cigarettes without excise stamps, to buy and hand them over for further sale and concealment to the accused SA, giving instructions about storing, keeping and concealing cigarettes without excise stamps, provides and finds a buyer for duty-free cigarettes, collects money from sold cigarettes through currently unidentified members of a criminal organization, provides material means for the commission of criminal acts, arranges through ND and SA for collection and transportation for resale duty-free goods - cigarettes on the gray market of Montenegro and the countries of the European Union.
The accused legal entity ”Top Gas.” doo Kotor, that through the actions of authorized persons with the intention of obtaining illegal property benefits for that legal entity and criminal organization, accepted that the trucks it owns and special vehicles for the transport of natural gas are used under the guise of legal transport and trade of natural gas for which the legal entity was registered in order to smuggle non-customs goods in limited circulation - cigarettes, and at the same time accepted to avoid reporting and paying taxes and other duties to the state in amounts exceeding 100.000 euros.
Also, the defendant Camaj is reasonably suspected that in order to implement a criminal plan, during 2019, on the territory of Montenegro, on several occasions he procured, sold and distributed non-customs goods - cigarettes without an excise stamp, bought for the needs of a criminal organization over 3.000 packs of different types of cigarettes without excise stamps, which as a consequence of the criminal plan and on his instructions, the defendants SA and IM placed in warehouses. In August 2019, around 200 packs of uncleared cigarettes were found and confiscated by officers of the Police Administration at the Rancho border crossing, which were placed in the possession of the legal entity "TG". control of the cargo vehicle driven by MN, and then it was determined that there were foreign objects in the container, while the minutes of the investigation by the Police Administration show that after opening the container, 99.880 packs of "Marble" cigarettes were found inside. During the control, it was determined that there were cigarettes in the tank and not natural gas.
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