The investigation established that the human bones found in two locations near the Morača River in Podgorica belong to the same person.
However, there is no biological profile of that person in the DNA database of the Forensic Center in Danilovgrad, the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica informed "Vijesti".
"In the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica, two cases were formed regarding the discovery of bones near the Morača river, which cases are in the investigation phase, during which the prosecutor's office issued orders for autopsies in order to determine the origin of the bones, and orders to the Forensic Center for DNA Expertise , which reports on DNA expertise were submitted to this prosecutor's office, and from them it follows that the DNA profile of the same NN male person was established, but no match was established with the profiles from the DNA register database", senior state prosecutor Lepa Medenica replied to "Vijesta".
Previously, "Vijesti" was told that forensic experts are trying to determine whose remains were found in the past few months at several locations in the country - at two locations in Podgorica and on the slopes of Lovcen, and how those people died.
Due to the condition in which the human remains were found, the investigators are not optimistic, as unofficially announced, that they could solve the mystery of the disappearance of several members of Montenegrin clans through identification, but they do not rule out that possibility.
Before them is the task of finding the remains of at least four people missing in the war of the Kavački and Skaljar clans, three of whom they announced were killed - Damir Hodžić, Adis Spahić and Nikola Stanišić.
Their bodies have not been found.
An interlocutor of "Vijesti" involved in the investigation said that the forensic experts have the most difficult job with the bone fragments found in Lovcen, because the body was burned.
Investigators suspect that Nikola Stanišić from Podgorica, who was allegedly close to the Skaljar criminal clan, was killed at that location.
One of the sources from the investigation said that through international assistance, they obtained information about how his body was destroyed after the murder:
"According to that information, after the murder, they put his body on spilled coal and tires, covered it with coal again and set it on fire," claims the same interlocutor.
Allegedly, it is part of the correspondence of members of the crime clan that they had through the encrypted SKY ECC application.
Fragments of a human skeleton were found at the beginning of summer on the old road towards Lovćen, and the chief special prosecutor Milivoje Katnić spoke about this at the media conference at the end of August.
"There is a well-founded suspicion that the body, I apologize to the relatives and everyone else, was eliminated or burned after that (murder). We have been looking for fragments and we believe we have found the place where it happened. Whether it will be possible to determine DNA from these fragments that we found there and confirm that it is that person or someone else, that is up to the Forensic Center, which is trained to perform the most complex experiments and checks. They do it diligently," answered Katnić.
Liquidation of Stanišić
Stanišić disappeared in August 2020, and the Special State Prosecutor's Office suspects that he was then kidnapped and liquidated in the continuation of the crackdown on Montenegrin criminal clans.
According to the claims of SDT, he was abducted by Slobodan Kašćelan's criminal organization on the first day of August last year, and then tortured in order to reveal to them the arms of the Skaljar criminal clan. They let him pray, then fired several projectiles from firearms at him.
For the murder of Stanišić, the Special State Prosecutor's Office even earlier suspected several members of the Kavaka criminal clan who, according to the SDT, were acting on the orders of their bosses - Kašćelan and Radoj Zvicer.
Most of the suspects for that crime have been on the run from the investigators since the end of April, when Kašćelan, Zoran Kažić, Vladimir Vučković, Miloš Radonjić, Krsto Maroš and Darko Prelević were arrested in the action of the Anti-Crime Sector.
After a legal entanglement - the decision of judge Miroslav Bašović not to order them into custody, Radonjić, Maroš and Prelević also escaped. Apart from them, the investigators are looking for Zvicer, Milan Vujotić, Srđo Jurišević, Dragan Knežević aka Škuri, Milan Knežević, Aleksandar Dragićević and Radoj Živković aka Žuti. Another alleged member of that clan - Zdravko Perunović - has been in prison since before.
In the files of the SDT, it is written that Stanišić was intercepted in Vrmac by Vučković, Jurišević and Radonjić, that they hit him in the head area with a bar, knocked him to the ground, tied him with a rope, and then put him in a BMW vehicle and headed towards Njeguši...
"During which time they tortured the injured party in order to extort from him information about the plans of the opposing criminal organization and to access the encrypted mobile phone he had with him," the files say.
They state that on the order of Kašćelan, they drove the victim to the village of Mirac, and that on the same day, in the evening hours, they started torturing him.
"In order to find out from him who he works for and where the stocks and weapons of members of opposing criminal organizations are, that during the night 2/3. 8. In 2020, they told the injured party that they were going to kill him, and allowed him to pray, and while he was praying, they fired several projectiles from a firearm, depriving him of his life."
It is added that part of the team returned to Kotor, where Jurišević took over the van provided by Kažić and placed Stanišić's motorcycle in it, driving it in an unknown direction.
The murder of Hodžić and Spahić
For the murder of Damir Hodžić and his son-in-law Adis Spahić, who had no criminal record, the SDT suspects the citizens of Belgrade, Veljko Belivuk, known as Velja Nebula, Marko Miljković and Nebojša Janković, as well as Ratko Živković, in whose house in Spuz the crime was allegedly committed.
Živković is on the run, and Belivuk, Miljković and Janković were arrested in Belgrade for at least five murders.
The house in which, according to SDT and UP, Hodžić and Spahić were first lured and then killed on October 14 last year, is located in the hamlet of Stanjevića Rupa in Spuška.
Investigators are trying to determine how their bodies were removed from it, but also who all participated in that and in concealing the traces of that crime, because, allegedly, Belivuk, Miljković and Janković already left Montenegro on the same night.
"Hodžić was killed immediately when he entered the house with Milo Radulović, Živković and Spahić. Belivuk shot him in the head.
Spahić, who started to run away, was simultaneously attacked physically by Miljković and Janković, who was then tied up and then killed. Then they also caught and tied up Radulović. "It has not been determined where they took him, but it is suspected that he was illegally transferred to Serbia on the same night, that is, between October 14 and 15," said the interlocutor from the investigation.
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