The High Court in Podgorica accepted the plea agreement that the defendant Milovan Laković from Podgorica concluded with the special state prosecutor's office for participating in the smuggling of 840 kilograms of cocaine.
According to that agreement, the defendant accepted a 10-month prison sentence, as well as paying 20.000 euros to the state budget as a fine and 30.000 euros for humanitarian purposes. Judge Vesna Pean will issue a verdict in this case within the legal deadline.
Laković is accused of being part of the organized criminal group of Nikica Todorović and Damjan Vukašinović, which smuggled 840 kilograms of cocaine from South America to the Portuguese port of Porto. The Special Prosecutor's Office accused Laković of communicating with other members of the organization at his bar in Podgorica, on the orders and instructions of Todorović.
In addition to Laković, Dragana Prostran, Zarina Karkelja, Jovan Ercegović, Darko Giljača, Ranko Stojović, Milica Bukilić, Radoje Radulović and two other persons who were prosecuted abroad were identified as members of this group.
At the beginning of February, the High Court accepted the agreements of Prostran, Karkelje, Jovan Ercegović and Giljača in which they admitted their membership in a criminal organization in exchange for prison terms and fines.
In exchange for a confession, Karkelja and Prostran agreed with special prosecutor Mira Samardžić to serve half a year of house arrest and to pay 1.000 euros each in the name of a fine, while Ercegović and Giljača agreed to prison sentences for 12 months and to pay 3.000 euros each in the name of the penalty.
According to the indictment, Todorović and Vukašinović organized a criminal organization in early March 2018, as is well-founded suspicion, whose plan was to operate on an international level to smuggle cocaine from South America to Europe.
Ercegović kept and transferred encrypted phones, booked the purchase of a spare nautical device for the ship that will be used to monitor the implementation of the criminal plan.
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