Arrested secret police officer Petar Lazović in the quarantine of the Investigation Prison shares a room with the former president of the Board of Directors of "Plantaž" Veselin Vukotić, "Vijesta" was told unofficially.
The interlocutor from that institution explained that persons who are ordered to be detained spend several days in quarantine, and after the assessments and examinations are completed, they are placed in the appropriate room.
He added that he believes that Vukotić and Lazović will share the cell where they will be transferred after the evaluations.
Lazović was arrested on July 18, by order of the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT), which suspects him of having committed five criminal acts, as a member of a criminal organization formed by the alleged head of the Kavač clan, Radoje Zvicer.
Radovan Pantović from Mojkov, who was arrested on July 19 at the border with Albania, is a member of that clan, SDT says.
SDT believes that the Swiss formed a clan that committed several criminal acts - unauthorized production, possession and distribution of narcotic drugs, smuggling, illegal possession of weapons and explosive materials...
Lazović and the escaped policeman Ljubo Milović are charged with the criminal offense of abuse of official position.
The SDT identified one of the heads of the Kavaka clan, Slobodan Kašćelan, and the leader of the Podgorica branch of that criminal group, Milan Vujotić, as members of the criminal organization. Suspected members of the criminal organization are Duško Roganović from Herceg Novi and Radovan Mujović from Nikšić.
From the SDT list, Zvicer, Milović and Roganović are on the run, while Mujović and Kašćelan are in the pre-trial prison in Spuž.
Special prosecutor Zoran Vučinić accuses that group of organizing the smuggling of cocaine from Latin America to Europe and Australia, and according to the SDT, police officers Lazović and Milović played one of the key roles in these operations.
Allegedly, he also gave secret official information to the head of the clan.
At the hearing at the SDT, Lazović denied the allegations of the criminal complaint.
Long-time professor, minister for privatization in the federal government of Ante Marković and long-time vice-president of the Privatization Council of Montenegro - Vukotić, was arrested on July 11, also by order of the SDT.
On the same day, the former members of the Board of Directors of the Montenegrin company Plantaže were also arrested - Sead Šahman, Božo Mihailović, Duško Perović, Đorđije Rajković and Anica Hajduković.
After the hearing at the SDT, Anica Hajduković was released to defend herself, and the special prosecutor ordered detention for the other arrested persons, and then proposed to the investigating judge that they be detained for up to 30 days.
The High Court accepted his proposal.
Vukotić and the other arrested persons are accused of having committed the criminal offense of abuse of official position in business operations.
The SDT announced that the arrested decided to conclude a harmful out-of-court settlement agreement between Plantaž and "OMP Engineering" from Podgorica, the partial execution of which caused damage to the state company and benefit to the private company. The damage allegedly caused is already measured in millions, but the figure is not final and is still being determined, a source from the investigation told "Vijesti" earlier.
One of the interlocutors of "Vijesti", however, claims that it is very possible that the accusations of the prosecution will not stop there and that there is allegedly more documentation that shows that the suspects have also worked illegally in other cases.
This has not been officially confirmed by SDT.
According to the knowledge of "Vijesti", all the suspects denied the commission of the criminal offense before the prosecutor Vukas Radonjić and presented their defense before the prosecutor.
"Vijesti" was unofficially told that the list of those arrested is not final, and that the SDT intends to expand the investigation also against the former executive director of "Plantaž" Verica Maraš and the former director of the Legal and General Affairs Sector Miroslav Vuković due to the suspicion that they, along with the arrested members of the former of the Board of Directors, abused their official position when concluding the settlement agreement with the company "OMP Engineering".
The opening of the investigation followed the completion of the investigation by the SDT, which formed the case after the new management in February filed a criminal complaint against Vukotić, Verica Maraš, Mihailović and Vuković, due to suspicions that they obtained multimillion-dollar illegal property benefits for the company by exploiting and abusing their position. "OMP Engineering".
During the preparation of business documents during the settlement procedure between "Plantaž" and a private company - from March to April 2020, and after the failed deal with the briquette factory, the state-owned company committed itself to the company, which was founded in 2009 by Oleg Obradović, Miodrag Ivanović and Predrag Bošković, who later left the business, paid 350.000 euros and transferred ownership of 37.000 square meters of land in Donji Kokoti to them.
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