With the defense of the defendants, the trial of Radovan Mujović from Nikšić and the other defendants began today before the special panel chaired by Judge Igor Đuričković in the High Court in Podgorica.
Defendant Radovan Mujović stated in his defense that he did not commit a single criminal offense, but that he believes that some of the criminal offenses charged against him are within the jurisdiction of the misdemeanor court, not the High Court.
"The special prosecution accuses me of having planned the liquidations on September 26, 2019. That is impossible. I was not in pre-trial detention during that period, on that very day. Just as the statements of the associate witness that I told him through the prison window that something would happen are not true. happen, it's impossible because I wasn't even in prison that day. I was arrested on the 24th and placed in the Nikšić prison, then on the 25th, they took me to the premises of the Podgorica prison, and on the 27th I was ordered to be detained by the prosecutor," he pointed out. is Mujović.
He added that these allegations of his defense are very easy to verify in the official notes of the police, prosecution and UIKS.
He then proceeded to present his defence.
"The prosecutor offered my brother and several others in this case, through a prison official, the status of a cooperating witness in order to accuse me. Then I went to the head of security in the prison for an interview. It was about OV who was the head of the security service at the time UIKS. If I lie to you, I will sign the maximum sentence. They say, like my brother, to get ready to go to the lawyer if he came to visit, and take him to Ostojić's office. They do that, in my opinion, in consultation with the prosecution Some of the defendants in this case can also confirm that they were offered this," said defendant Mujović.
Apart from Mujović, the defendants Petar Lipovina, Mitar Marković, Žarko Pejaković, Lazar Nedović, Ćetković Aleksandar, Boško Pavlović, Marko Zorić, Nikola Marić, Uroš Đurđevac, Filip Bešović and Goran Rakočević presented their defense. They denied committing a criminal act, and stated in their defense that they were not members of any criminal organization. They add that they do not know the cooperating witnesses and that it is not clear to them where they came from as the perpetrators of some criminal acts.
The Special State Prosecutor's Office filed an indictment against Radovan L. Mujović and Vasilij B. Rafailović, for the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization, and Petar V. Lipovina, Mitra D. Marković, Filip M. Knežević, Žarko Ž. Pejakovića, Lazar M. Nedovića, Aleksandar B. Ćetkovića, Boško Ž. Pavlović, Serbian citizens Jovan Mirković and Aleksandar Stevanović, Marko A. Zorić, Nikola Z. Marić, Đurđevac V. Uroš, Filip M. Bešović, Goran V. Rakočević, Ivan R. Brnović, Nikola P. Drecuna, Đurđevac Z. Aleksandra, Moš I. Paović, Uroš V. Vučinić, Davor H. Avdić and Nemanja M. Zurovac, for the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization.
At the beginning of 2017, the defendants Mujović and Rafailović created a criminal organization for the purpose of committing criminal acts, whose members became the accused, as well as Bajram Pista and Marinko Rajković, who were designated as cooperating witnesses by the decision of the High Court.
Mujović was accused of causing general danger by incitement, serious bodily injury by incitement, and Marić and Uroš Đurđevac, causing general danger and illegal possession of weapons, Ćetković - serious bodily injury by incitement, Drecun for the criminal offense as an accomplice of serious bodily injury, while Rakočević, Bešović , Knežević, Lipovina and Marković accused of causing general danger through incitement, and Nedović and Pejaković as accomplices for the criminal offense of causing general danger.
The defendants Mirković and Lipovina are accused of having committed the criminal offense of aggravated murder by incitement. Radovan Mujović was also charged with the same criminal offense, who, as stated in the indictment, asked Pista Bajram to "butcher" MB, the wife of associate witness MM. accused of "aggravated attempted murder", while Knežević was accused of two criminal offenses of incitement to murder", the indictment states.
Lipovina: The cooperating witness invented everything
The defendant Petar Lipovina denied the allegations of the indictment.
"I believe that this indictment is fabricated. I did not receive any money to set someone's vehicle on fire, nor do I have a motive for such a thing. It is said that I sent a note through the goods from the prison inciting someone. That is untrue. I would like to see it. It is well known that everything that enters and leaves the prison is inspected and scanned. That would be tantamount to suicide. This is all a lie made up by the witness Marinko Rajković," said Lipovina's defense. - Lipovina said, among other things, and continued.
"The indictment says that I have been a member of a criminal organization since 2017, and I met some of these people only in remand prison, and I don't even know some of them. I had no motive to set anyone's car on fire, but the witness Rajković did because he and set fire to his wife's vehicle in 2019. The media wrote about it. I believe that the crime for which the SDT accuses me may have been committed by him, so the prosecution led me to absolve myself and get the status of an accomplice witness," the accused Lipovina claims. The defendant Lazar Nedović also had remarks about the associate witness and denied that he had committed the crime.
"I was accused based on the words of an associate witness who said that he did not know me, that he did not know what I looked like and that he did not know my activities. I am surprised that I am here," said the accused Nedović.
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