The trial of the accused for cigarette smuggling was postponed today in the High Court in Podgorica to December 1, due to the non-appearance of the defense counsel of the accused due to his inability to attend the main hearing due to health reasons, Aida Muzurović, the court's independent advisor for public relations, told "Vijesta" .
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 extended 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 files of the first-instance court, that the defendant Camaj was reasonably suspected of having committed the criminal acts was charged against him.
That is, it is suspected that he and Nikaljević Duška formed a criminal organization in early 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.
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