Even international aid did not help to find out who killed a police official 23 years ago Goran Žugić.
This, among other things, was announced to Vijesti by the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica, which is in charge of the investigation.
However, they did not specify which countries were asked for help in that case.
Žugić was the security advisor to the then president of the country Milo Đukanović, and was liquidated by gunshots on May 31, 2000.
"In the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica, a case was established against the unknown perpetrator of the criminal act of murder, committed on May 31, 5, to the detriment of G.Ž. and all necessary measures and actions were taken by the prosecution. Reports on ballistic and trasological expertise and paraffin glove expertise were obtained. Also, through international legal assistance, several countries were required to collect notifications and certain data about the criminal act in question, which so far the collected data have not yielded results in discovering the perpetrator of this criminal act, for which reasons the prosecution has repeatedly sent verbal requests to the Police Directorate and written urgencies to take the necessary measures and actions, all with the aim of discovering the perpetrator of the criminal act in question", states the answer of the head of the Higher State Prosecutor's Office Beautiful Medenice.
According to official police data, Žugić was killed around 23 p.m. on Sava Kovačevića Boulevard in Podgorica.
According to that version, he drove an "Audi A6" to the building where he lived, parked the car and headed for the entrance. An executioner about 1,75 meters tall ran up from behind him and fired a dozen shots at him from an automatic pistol - three hit him in the head.
According to the second, the police found only five 7,65 mm cartridges during the investigation.
However, since the first day of the investigation, there has been speculation that Đukanović's advisor was not killed at the place where his dismembered body was found, but that the corpse was brought there. This has never been officially confirmed.
Even today, the motive for that liquidation is unclear, and it was said in police circles that the murder of Đukanović's adviser was connected to the tobacco mafia.
Two years after the murder of Đukanović's advisor, Goran Stanjević, then the representative of the Government Agency for Foreign Investments, said that Žugić was killed only a few months after he had delivered to him from Switzerland the documentation related to the investigation of the prosecutor's office in Bari on the smuggling of cigarettes between Montenegro and Italy.
He told the Italian investigators that year that the documents on smuggling related to Đukanović's role in that business and that he brought the papers to Montenegro after he was contacted by the wife of the "smuggling king". Cira Macarele.
In the documents of the Italian prosecution, it is written that Stanjević was a representative of the Government Agency for Foreign Investments in Switzerland from 1995 to 1998.
He told the prosecutor that two or three years before the hearing in 2002, his wife Ćira Macarele, who lives in Lugano, contacted him and provided him with documentation related to the prosecution's investigation in Bari.
He says that they asked him to take the documentation to Montenegro personally, which he claims he did - the next day he took twenty A4 books to Podgorica.
He did not precisely answer the questions that asked for confirmation that Macarela obtained documents through his channels that were not yet publicly available.
He told them that Žugić was killed a few months after he delivered those documents to him.
Through international legal assistance, several countries were required to collect notifications and certain data about the criminal act in question, which... did not yield results in the discovery of the perpetrator of this criminal act," the Prosecutor's Office said in its response.
On several occasions, the prosecution sent verbal and written requests to the Police Directorate to take the necessary measures and actions, all with the aim of discovering the perpetrator of the crime in question.
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