The Higher Court in Podgorica approved yesterday the plea agreement that the defendant Zdravko Luković, a citizen of Serbia, concluded with the special state prosecution. According to that agreement, the defendant Luković agreed to a prison sentence of 11 months, which also includes the time spent in custody from October 17, 2019.
Luković was accused of being a member of a criminal organization that smuggled excise-free cigarettes worth 200.000 euros, while he admitted to the special prosecutor that he became a member of that group in 2018. As stated in the plea agreement, which was adopted yesterday, Luković's task was to take money from the sale of cigarettes from members of a criminal organization in Serbia and hand it over to other members of that organization in Montenegro. In addition, he was in charge of passing messages between members of the criminal group. Because of all this, in agreement with the prosecutor, Luković agreed to a prison sentence of 11 months.
Special prosecutor Saša Čađenović said that it is a relief for the defendant that he has admitted to the commission of the crime, he has not been convicted before, he is relatively young and he has shown a high degree of remorse.
The agreement states, among other things, that Luković, Miroslav Ivezić and Adnan Suković accepted membership in a criminal organization formed by an NGO on the territory of Serbia and Montenegro, and that the group's activities are planned on an international scale for an indefinite period. The head of the organization is not named in the agreement, because Luković does not know who the person was who assigned tasks to members, contracted the purchase of cigarettes and obtained money for the expenses of members of the criminal organization.
In the indictment of the special state prosecution, it is stated that Duško Nikaljević and Đoka Camaj created a criminal group that included seven other members besides them. They allegedly smuggled cigarettes worth 200.000 euros.
"During 2018, Nikaljević and Camaj organized a criminal organization on the territory of Montenegro, Serbia, Italy and other European countries for the purpose of smuggling cigarettes on the gray market of Serbia and Montenegro," the indictment reads. Filip Nikaljević, Nikola Matović, Vukašin Matović, Borivoje Matović, Adnan Suković, Miroslav Ivezić and Zdravko Luković were identified as members of this criminal organization.
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