On July 31st, under police escort, Jovan Vukotić from Kotor went from Podgorica to Bar for Alan Kožar's funeral.
On that day, the inspectors supervised the funeral of the murdered Baranin, and then "escorted" Vukotić to Podgorica in rotation.
This is what "Vijesti" interlocutors from the Police Administration claim, explaining that the alleged head of the Skaljar clan was accompanied by members of the Podgorica Security Center and their colleagues from Bar.
The UP, however, did not want to answer specific questions about the security of Vukotić, but explained that on that day they "performed increased control".
Three days before his friend's funeral, Vukotić was released from the Investigation Prison where he had been held for months due to charges of attempted murder of two alleged members of the Kavac criminal clan, Miloš Radonjić and Vojin Stupar, of which he was acquitted. His friend, Alan Kozar, was killed on July 23 in Greece"...
"Officials of the Police Administration undertake daily measures and actions within their jurisdiction with the aim of preventive action to suppress serious crimes, especially from the aspect of controlling persons who are registered as returnees in the commission of criminal offenses. In this regard, members of the police, taking operational tactical measures and actions within their competence and in accordance with the security assessment, on July 31 performed increased control of persons who are registered as returnees in the commission of criminal acts, as well as persons who are close to members of organized criminal groups. The police will continue these activities in order to act preventively and prevent the commission of criminal acts and misdemeanors in the coming period", the UP responded on August 12.
Eight days before that, "Vijesti" asked that security institution whether on July 31, from Podgorica to Bar, that is, the Gusta cemetery, as well as all the time he was there for the funeral of Alan Kožar, they provided security for Jovan Vukotić.
They did not respond to that, but also to the questions if they were guarding him, who made such a decision, when and why, nor from whom was the threat to Vukotić's life that day, nor what level of protection was used that day and how many officers of the Police Administration was engaged in that task.
The question of whether UP assigned Vukotić 24-hour security or if it was an exception, but also how many times UP has done the same when it comes to people who, even in official announcements and statements, UP designates as members of organized criminal groups, remains unanswered. .
Three days before his friend's funeral, Vukotić was released from the Investigation Prison where he had been held for months due to charges of attempted murder of two alleged members of the Kavac criminal clan, Miloš Radonjić and Vojin Stupar, of which he was acquitted.
His friend, Alan Kozar, was killed on July 23 in Greece.
46 bullets were fired from two weapons into that Baranin and Užičanin Damir Hadžić (29).
The attackers shot them in the chest and head.
Skaljarci, who had been on the run from the police for years, were killed in the area of southern Corfu.
Their lifeless bodies were found in a car, in the parking lot of a rented villa in Halikouni.
The Montenegrin police did not announce whether their colleagues from Greece asked for any help in that investigation.
According to unofficial information, they were asked, through interpols, to verify the identity of the murdered Baranin, as well as information about him and his contacts.
In the first hours after the murder, a source from the top of the Montenegrin police told the News that there was information that another person was wounded in the attack on Kožar and Hadžić. However, this has not been officially confirmed.
Tamara Zvicer's accusations fall into the water
At the end of June, the higher state prosecutor's office suspended the investigation against Jovan Vukotić, who was also suspected of the attempted murder of Tamara Zvicer, the wife of the alleged leader of the Kavac clan, Radoj Zvicer.
The investigation was suspended almost four years after the shooting in Kotor, although Vukotić's father, the now deceased Veselin Vukotić, submitted evidence to the Special State Prosecutor's Office in June 2016 confirming that his son Jovan was in Ljubljana when, on May 23 of that year, he was Tamara Zvicer was shot in Kotor.
In that case, the prosecution believed the testimony of numerous witnesses, the DNA analysis by which Vukotić's traces were not found on the car from which Zvicer was shot, but also other evidence...
The public accusations of Zvicerova - that Vukotić, in the presence of his father Veselin Vukotić, shot in her direction were refuted by the evidence conducted by the VDT during the investigation.
A few days after the shooting in which she was not wounded, in a statement to "Vijesti", she told Vukotić that "the truth about everything will be easily established", but also that "they should leave their passports in the newsroom of 'Vijesti' because they will not need them where they travel". .
It was explained that there is no evidence that this Kotor resident tried to kill a fellow citizen on May 23, 2016.
At the hearing in Belgrade, and then in front of the prosecutors in Podgorica, Vukotić repeated everything he claimed to "Vijesta" immediately after Zvicerova was attacked - that they were setting him up.
He said that on May 23, 2016, he was in Slovenia, in a building with video surveillance, that he has recordings, medical documentation from the clinic where he was treated every day, and that this can be confirmed by four witnesses who were with him that day. him.
The police are hiding from whom Kotoranin is in danger
The building where Vukotić lives in Podgorica was guarded by the police for days after the man from Kotor was released from the Remand Prison.
The interlocutor of Vijesti said that the twenty-four-hour security was set at the insistence of the police administration officials, and not at Vukotić's request.
The UP, however, did not explain whether and why they assigned 24-hour security to that Kotoran, nor from whom Vukotić is in danger.
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