Vujović: I don't know why the police are looking for me

Podgorica Ivan Vujović announced that he did not know why the police were looking for him and that the police did not share this information with his family members during the search of the house.

In the response provided to the News by his legal representative, a lawyer Stefan Jokic, Vujović explains that he was released on December 11, 2021, because he served the prison sentence to which he was sentenced by the verdict of the High Court in Podgorica and that he wants to inform the Montenegrin public about the strange and illegal actions of "parapolice formations for which the law absolutely does not apply ".

He also claims that, the day before he served his sentence, the Administration for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions "beyond their authority" called the competent institutions where criminal proceedings are being conducted against him.

"In order to inform them that I am being released, after a call from UIKS, the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica moved my already scheduled hearing from December 17 to December 10, due to the request of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade, and all in order to made my position even more difficult", he wrote in the response.

It is added that after that, the next day, in the presence of a lawyer, he was taken to the Podgorica Security Center, where he again made a statement:

"Where they allegedly inform me about my life being threatened. "After December 11th, banditry began, in the true sense, by certain members of the parapolice forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and part of the prosecutors, who chose lawlessness rather than respect for the rule of law," he wrote in the reaction.

In that text, Vujović claims that he was absolutely not hiding, that he was available all the time and responded to all scheduled searches:

"That I was legitimized three times in the city of Podgorica from December 11 to 28, where I was also searched and that certain 'quasi' police officers invited me to a meeting... that I refused any meeting with them, after which the police executed they search the house where my family is located (even though it is not my place of residence), helicopters are raised in order to spend as much taxpayers' money as possible, all under the pretext that they just want an informational interview with me. Regarding the alleged searches, where absolutely no one from the 'quasi' police did not say for which criminal offense I was suspected, so they are acting like that, they told me that they were acting on the order of the ODT Maje Janković. However, that warrant, that is, the search warrant, was not presented to my family. The prosecutor replied to my lawyer that my request for information about me was treated as a complaint about the work of police officers and that a case will be filed in this regard," the response reads.

Vujović also claims that the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica does not want to provide his lawyer with the files.

"I know I'm neither a flower nor an angel, but I'm also far from what has been going on in public all these years. I emphasize that I am suspected of wounding in Serbia, but no indictment has been filed in the aforementioned case. The investigation is still ongoing, although six years have passed. Now I publicly claim that the only true thing is that I was present in the aforementioned cafe on the critical evening, and that, if an indictment is filed before the Serbian court, I will surrender to them and prove my innocence. I still don't know why my country is looking for me. When the acting prosecutor doesn't know it either, I don't either," he wrote in the response.

That man from Podgorica also wrote that he is asking the Minister of Internal Affairs and the Director of Police to take concrete actions, to suspend the "leaders of this illegal action against me" and to protect his family from "police torture".

"All this is happening to me because I didn't want to fight other people's wars, to be a soldier of parapolice formations and carry out their orders, to sort out the chaos they created in the country," he wrote.