In the High Court in Podgorica today, the hearing scheduled to discuss the justification and legality of the indictment brought by the Higher State Prosecutor's Office against the defendants Dalibor Ljekočević, David Ljekočević, Damir Kuč, Stefan Stefanović and Turkjan Šutaj, for the criminal offense of unauthorized production, was postponed. possession and distribution of narcotic drugs.
Lawyers Damir Lekić, the defense counsel for the defendants Kuč and Stefanović, and lawyer Balša Dragović, the defense counsel for David and Dalibor Ljekočević, today requested the exemption of acting state prosecutor Tanja Božović.
After that, the president of the extrajudicial panel chaired by judge Zoran Radović postponed the hearing until the decision on the request for exemption is made and the case files will be submitted to the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica.
Lawyers Damir Lekić, the defense counsel for the defendants Kuč and Stefanović, and lawyer Balša Dragović, the defense counsel for David and Dalibor Ljekočević, today requested the exemption of acting state prosecutor Tanja Božović.
"I am submitting a request for exemption because I believe that circumstances emerged during the proceedings that indicate that the state prosecutor is biased to the detriment of my clients. In the first stage of the proceedings, the state prosecutor passed a decision on the detention of my clients, and then she submitted a proposal for detention and to the Higher the court accepted that proposal. After that, she submitted to the out-of-trial criminal panel a proposal for the extension of custody, which the court accepted. When that detention expired and when she submitted a proposal for the extension of custody to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court found that proposal to be unfounded and Instead of my defendants being released, which should have happened because the Supreme Court found that detention was not appropriate, the state prosecutor, as soon as she learned about that decision, filed an indictment with a proposal to extend the detention. Despite the fact that the Supreme Court had knowledge that the Supreme Court had rejected the proposal for the extension of custody, the Council of the High Court still extended the detention and my defendants are still in custody. At the moment when the Supreme Court rejected the state prosecutor's proposal to extend custody, the defendants should have been released, and the state prosecutor was not allowed or could not submit a proposal to extend custody. For this reason, I believe that the state prosecutor's actions have given rise to the circumstances that she is biased to the detriment of my defendants, that is why I am submitting a request for disqualification", stated Lekić in the explanation of the request for disqualification.
Officer of the Police Directorate Dalibor Ljekočević was arrested on February 8 by order of the Higher State Prosecutor's Office on reasonable suspicion that he had committed the criminal offense of "unauthorized production and distribution of narcotic drugs".
In the files of the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica, it is stated that Ljekočević sold drugs to an agent in disguise on two occasions, and Damir Kuč and Stefan Stefanović, who were also arrested on February 8, mediated that business.
It is clarified that in the period from September 2021 to the end of the same month in 2022, that policeman sold heroin to the defendant Natalija Konatar once a month, and that in November and December last year, he sold the same prohibited substance to an undercover investigator.
Thirty-year-old Dalibor Ljekočević, his brother David, who is six years younger, Kuč and Stefanović, were arrested in an operation by the police and the High Prosecutor's Office, codenamed "Lovka". In addition to them, the defendants in the same case are Kosovar Šutaj Turkjan, as well as Natalija Konatar, a native of Belgrade living in Podgorica.
On the day of the arrest, the police announced that during the months-long operation, they seized a total of 230 grams of heroin, about 120 grams of marijuana, money in the amount of 23.345 euros, four vehicles, 105 pieces of ammunition and two scales for accurate measurement.
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