A group of police officers, alleged collaborators of the mafia, used the money obtained from cocaine smuggling to influence the results of the parliamentary elections in August 2020, but also to appoint trusted people to top positions in the Police Directorate.
This is stated, among other things, in the files of the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT), on whose order several policemen were arrested in recent days, suspected of working for organized criminal groups instead of for the state.
"That with the money acquired through criminal activity, in the parliamentary elections in August 2020 in Montenegro, they influence voters not to exercise their right to vote... They bought large quantities of weapons and explosive materials, influenced the appointment of persons close to them to leadership positions in the Police Directorate" , it is written in SDT documents.
According to the evidence obtained by the Special State Prosecutor's Office, a group of police officers - mercenaries of the mafia was formed in 2019 by Ljubo Milović (40) Mileta Ojdanic (51) and Radoje Switzerland (41)
Investigators claim that the three of them used money earned from international cocaine smuggling to buy votes ahead of next year's elections.
Their team is accused of having smuggled at least three tons of cocaine with their associates, intimidated members of other criminal clans, witnesses, and of passing confidential information to the heads of the Kavac criminal clan, telling them if someone's arrest was about to be...
"The defendant, Goran Stojanović, was tasked as a police officer... in order to support a political option, in the parliamentary elections in Montenegro in August 2020, to transfer purchased ID cards and take other actions according to the instructions and orders of the organizer," it added. in the writings.
Members of the former Support Team of the Sector for the Fight against Organized Crime and Corruption have also been designated by the SDT as members of the police drug cartel - Ivan Stamatović (40) They will not be Bulgarians (43) Petar Lazović (33), a member of the Police Search Unit Goran Stojanović (40) Miloš Mišurović (41) and their colleagues from the Kotor Security Department Marko Novaković (36) Ivan Nikolić (37) and Milan Popović (40)
Part of the crime team, which, according to police evidence, was led by dirty police officers, is also a man from Cetinje Božidar Jabučanin (46), Podgorica Aleksandar Keković (32) Vladimir Bajčeta (43) Tihomir Adzic (38), Bjelopoljac Filip Zindovic, which used to be the last name Kljajevic (34) and Drazen Milović (36) from Trebinje, who lives in Grahovo.
The investigators emphasize that they still need to determine who the remaining members of the criminal group, which was active on the territory of Montenegro, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ecuador, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Turkey, and other European countries, are still unknown to them. and South America.
Stamatović tortured and paid
The task of the former commander of the Podgorica police Ivan Stamatović, who is on the run, was to give confidential information to the criminal organization regarding the activities and cases concerning their members, as well as other criminal organizations, as well as to torture members of opposing clans and thus deliver the extorted information to the criminal bosses:
"To participate in the transport and keep records related to the transport of the narcotic drug cocaine from Ecuador to Europe and Turkey and the sums of money collected from the sold drug, to take over the money derived from the sale of the narcotic drug cocaine, and hand over the same on the orders of the organizers of the criminal organization them and other members of the criminal organization, to recruit other members of the criminal organization and give money to the officers of the Police Administration of Montenegro, as well as to take other actions according to the instructions and orders of the organizers".
The Bulgarian recruited colleagues
His colleague Nebojša Bugarin, who is also on the run, writes that as a policeman he participated in the transportation of cocaine from Ecuador to Europe, but also in the sale of narcotics in the territory of Montenegro.
According to the SDT's evidence, he also recruited fellow police officers to participate in cocaine smuggling, bribed them, took money at the behest of the organizers of the criminal organization...
Police officer Marko Novaković also gave confidential information to the fraud team, SDT claims.
It says that he sent them information about the activities and items concerning members of that and other criminal organizations, but also followed their rivals and informed them about their locations, the cars they use, according to the tasks and instructions of the organizers...
One of his tasks was to scout the terrain in order to ensure the safe passage of the head of that clan and the organizers of the teams close to them, but also to check for the needs of the crime team in the bases of the MUP when and which border was crossed by the one who was under their command. with a magnifying glass...
Arrests
In the previous few days, several police officers were arrested in a major operation by the SDT and their Special Police Department, and the inspectors are looking for six more of their colleagues.
The arrest of the members of the criminal organization followed after the Special State Prosecutor's Office, on the order of the new GST Vladimir Novović, formed a criminal case again in May of last year, based on data that Europol sent to the former leadership of the Special State Prosecutor's Office in June 2021.
Special prosecutor Sasa Cadjenovic in January 2022, he made a decision that there were no elements to initiate criminal proceedings against anyone. At that time, the chief special prosecutor was Milivoje Katnić.
After the first tranche of that communication delivered from Europol, cooperation with Montenegro was "frozen" due to the relationship between those former SDT leaders and individual police officers.
Čađenović was arrested on December 9, 2022 on suspicion of becoming a member of a criminal organization, and is still in custody in Spuž.
After several talks with the new leadership, officials here at Europol realized that there is a will in Montenegro to fully investigate the criminal organization, and sent new packages of transcripts - conversations of members of that criminal organization.
Then the arrests started...
"Lazović tortured the Skaljars at the behest of the Swiss"
On the order of Radoj Zvicer, the former secret agent and leader of the support team of the Sector for the fight against organized crime, Petar Lazović, tortured the criminals they arrested, photographed them and sent them to the head of his criminal team.
In the files of the SDT, the role of the son of the former assistant director of the Police Administration, Zoran Lazović, is specified, and it is stated that he participated in the transportation of cocaine from Ecuador to Europe, but also on the orders of the head of the clan checked the movement of persons of interest to them.
"The defendant Petar Lazović had the task of, as a police officer of the Police Administration of Montenegro, giving confidential information to a criminal organization regarding the activities and cases concerning members of this and other criminal organizations, as well as participating in the transportation of the narcotic drug cocaine from Ecuador to Europe, during the deprivation of liberty, he tortures members of opposing criminal organizations in order to obtain confessions or other information and submits the information obtained through torture to the organizer of the criminal organization, performs checks in the civil records of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on crossing the state border, as well as undertakes other actions according to the instructions and orders of the organizer." it is written in the writings.
Yesterday, the "Libertas" portal published photos showing acts of torture, stating that the torture was carried out by members of the Department for Special Operational Support of the Police Directorate under the command of Mirko Banović.
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The UP management at the time replied to "Vijesta" that their officers did everything in accordance with the regulations.
Then they asserted that they would nominate all the officers who participated in that action against organized crime for a reward.
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