The procedure for issuing an international warrant for Mijat Beljkaš (26), who is suspected of being responsible for the death of Ivica Božović (41), is ongoing.
For almost three years, the Montenegrin police have not been able to find and arrest Beljkaš or the car with which, as they claim, at the end of October 2020, at the pedestrian crossing in Podgorica, he hit and seriously injured Božović and fled.
After a few days, Božović died as a result of his injuries.
In the first hours of the investigation, the police received information from eyewitnesses that Božović was hit by the driver of an Audi A6 with registration number (PG-JA381) on Stanko Dragojević Boulevard.
They also told the police officers to which part of the city the "Audi" fled, but the inspectors did not find it. A little later, it was established that the suspect's family members were preventing the authorities from finding the culprit.
Although the police claimed half a year after the accident that they knew where the suspect Mijat Beljkaš was hiding, they never handcuffed him, and it is unclear whether they are looking for him at all.
"The Basic Court in Podgorica, at the proposal of the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica, issued an order for the issuance of a warrant for MB. The procedure for issuing an international warrant at the Ministry of Justice is also underway," the head of that prosecution, prosecutor Duško Milanović, replied to Vijestima.
The Police Administration did not answer questions about the last time, and what measures and actions, they took to arrest Beljkaš and find the car with which he hit Božović.
The question of whether and from which international partners they requested information on the possible movement of that suspect remained unanswered.
Commenting on the case, the office of the Prime Minister, Dritan Abazović, said that they expect the police and the prosecutor's office, if not, to take everything in their power to bring the person responsible for the death of Božović to justice.
Chronology
On October 29, 2020, at 19.07:XNUMX p.m., Božović was hit by a car while crossing the intersection of Hercegovačka Street and Stanko Dragojević Boulevard on a "zebra".
According to the police and prosecutor's files, Mijat Beljkaš hit him with an Audi, who did not comply with traffic regulations:
"Through which he endangered the traffic and endangered the life and body of people, that is, IB", it is written in the files.
It was clarified that Beljkaš was driving on the right lane of Stanko Dragojevića Boulevard, from the direction of Ivan Crnojevića Boulevard towards Svetog Petar Cetinjski Boulevard and came into contact with the body of pedestrian Božović at the marked pedestrian crossing:
"Which was crossing the road at the marked pedestrian crossing, in the direction of the Russian bridge, when the pedestrian fell on the road, and B. left the scene of the traffic accident with the Audi brand PMV, registration number, after contact"...
He left the seriously injured Božović on the street and, as is suspected, fled towards the Preko Morača part of town.
The policemen who came to the scene of the accident did not find the injured pedestrian, because he had previously been transported to the Emergency Block, but neither did the driver.
Božović was transported to the Clinical Center in Podgorica with multiple fractures of the bones of the skull and body. Doctors' efforts to save him were in vain - he died on November 5.
A day later, the police interrogated Matija Beljkaš (33), the brother of the suspect, who was prosecuted in April 2021 for concealing evidence of a criminal offense committed by his brother Mijat.
After they had settled the dice, the Police Directorate and the prosecution organized a conference from which it was announced that they had done to shed light on the accident in which Božović was killed, but also that they had prosecuted Matija Beljkaš for preventing evidence.
He hid the car and his brother
Matija Beljkaš was sentenced to three months in prison due to accusations that he made it difficult for prosecutors and the police to find the "audi" with which Božović was hit, that is, that he hid it in order to help his brother after the accident.
According to the verdict of the judge of the Basic Court in Podgorica, Larisa Stamatović Mijušković, he was found guilty of hiding a car in the period from October 30, around 22 p.m., to November 6, 2020, around 23.30:XNUMX p.m.
"Aware of his act, the execution of which he wanted and aware that his act was prohibited, with the intention of preventing proof, he hid an object that serves for proof, in such a way that he drove away and parked an 'Audi A6' passenger car in an unknown place...for that there are grounds for suspicion that his own brother MB hit pedestrian IB with it on October 28, 2020, at around 19 p.m., at the pedestrian crossing on Stanko Dragojević Boulevard in Podgorica, walked away and left him without help, with whom 5. on November 2020, death occurred due to serious bodily injuries sustained in the accident, and the police are still looking for the vehicle and the driver, suspected of criminal offenses of serious offenses against public traffic safety... and failure to provide assistance to a person injured in a traffic accident, which he did the criminal offense of preventing evidence," the verdict reads.
The judge sentenced him to three months in prison.
He said in front of the judge that he does not admit to the crime, claiming that the Audi with which Božović was hit was sold before the accident.
"The defendant MB, in his defense...stated that he does not admit to the crime and his guilt, and that he has nothing to do with the charges in question, noting that four keys came with the vehicle when it was purchased and that three were handed over when the vehicle was sold. and that one remained in the vehicle and that he forgot to give it, while he did not know exactly when the vehicle was sold, but that he thought it was sold maybe on 23, 24 or 25.10.2020. year, while he cannot say to whom this vehicle was sold".
He also claimed that the car in which he was arrested and in which the spare Audi key was found was not his, but he also did not want to say whose "Golf" belonged to him.
Final conviction for preventing evidence
Prosecutor Milanović told the News that the verdict against Matija Beljkaš was legally confirmed by the decision of the High Court.
"The criminal proceedings against his (Mijat Beljkaš, ed.) brother MB were legally terminated by the judgment of the High Court in Podgorica, which dismissed as unfounded the appeal of the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica and the defendant's defense attorney, and confirmed the judgment of the Basic Court in Podgorica dated June 13. 06, by which the named person was found guilty of the criminal offense of preventing evidence... and sentenced to three months in prison," explained Milanović.
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