Trial for cocaine smuggling on the ship "Manjifiko": Obtain information from Colombia on whether Pavlović went to the port

In the High Court in Podgorica, the trial of the defendants for smuggling 18 kilograms of cocaine on the ship "Manjifiko" continued yesterday.

Yesterday, at the suggestion of lawyer Dejan Klikovac, the court separated from the case file the records of the examination of witnesses in the investigation.

"The minutes of the witnesses heard before the special prosecutor are separated from the case files and they cannot be used in the court proceedings because the defense attorneys of the defendants did not attend those hearings without explaining why they were not invited," said the president of the special panel of judges, Nada Rabrenović.

She ordered that information be obtained from the Colombian authorities on whether the accused Srđan Pavlović, as a sailor, left the port of Cartagena on January 24, 2019 from the ship "Manjifiko" where, as stated in the indictment, he took 18 kilograms of cocaine from the Colombians in order to and smuggled them into Montenegro.

The court accepted the proposal of the defense of the defendant Pavlović, that through international legal assistance, the competent authorities of Colombia and the company MSC, which owns the ship "Manjifiko", request information on how many times this ship sailed into the port of Cartagena in the period from January 1 to May 31. in 2019.

The defense attorneys of the defendant Srđan Pavlović, lawyers Ratko Pantović and Dejan Klikovac, proposed at the trial held in July of this year to provide evidence by preserving the fact that the defendant Pavlović did not get off the ship "Manjifiko" on January 24, 2019 in port of Cartagena in Colombia.

"The shipping company MSC has confirmed that there is such information or evidence, but that it will be provided only at the request of the High Court in Podgorica," said lawyer Pantović at the time.

He added that it was for this reason that he asked for the provision of this evidence, because there is a danger that, over time, it will be deleted from the software of this company.

Danilo S. Đurović from Serbia, living in Tivat, who is on the run, and Miloš M. Petrić, Srđan S. Pavlović, Đuro R. Perović, Miloš J. Perović, Toni L. Petković and Rade B. Samardžić, all from Tivat, as well as Branimir J. Miletić from Serbia.

According to the indictment, Đurović committed the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization, that he formed a criminal organization in Colombia and Montenegro at the end of December 2018. The other defendants are accused of creating a criminal organization, that is, of being members of a criminal organization, as well as two unknown members from Colombia, for the purpose of smuggling cocaine from South America to Montenegro. Danilo Đurović and Srđan Pavlović are also accused of the criminal offense of unauthorized production and placing on the market of narcotic drugs from Article 300 paragraph 2, while Petrić, Perović Đuro, Miletić, Samardžić and Petković are accused of the criminal offense of unauthorized production and placing on the market of narcotic drugs from Article 300 paragraph 1.