Mayor of Budva Milo Bozovic was accused of creating a criminal organization and drug smuggling, while a police officer will be charged Dejan Knežević possibly tried for disclosure of secret information and abuse of official position.
Yesterday, the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SST) filed an indictment against them and 19 other persons, which will have to be confirmed by the High Court before a possible trial.
Accused are i Radoje Switzerland, Ljubo Milović, Mileta Ojadnic, Ivan Stamatović, Nebojša Bulgarian, Petar Lazovic, Milan Popovic, Miloš Mišurović, Marko Novakovic, Ivan Nikolic, Goran Stojanovic, Božidar Jabučanin, Aleksandar Keković, Vladimir Bajčeta, Tihomir Adzic, Filip Zindovic (Kljajević), Dražen Milović, Ivan Mijatović...
The prosecution charges the individuals in that group, among other things, with smuggling 4,3 tons of cocaine, with laundering around 7.000.000 euros, but also with causing general danger and illegal possession of weapons...
"Today, the Special State Prosecutor's Office submitted an indictment against 21 defendants to the Special Department for Trials of Criminal Offenses of Organized Crime, Corruption, Terrorism and War Crimes of the High Court in Podgorica, namely: Lj. M., MO, IS, NB, PL, MP, BJ, MM, AK, VB, GS, DM, FZ, IN, TA, MN, DK, MB, for criminal acts of creating a criminal organization, against Lj. M., MO, IS, NB, PL, MP, BJ, MM, AK, VB, MN, RZ, DM, FZ, MB and IM, for criminal offenses of unauthorized production, possession and distribution of narcotic drugs - about 4 ti 300 kg of cocaine, against Lj. M., IS, MO, BJ and MN, for criminal offenses of money laundering - about seven million euros, against MM, AK and Lj. M., for the criminal offense of causing general danger and illegal possession of weapons and explosive materials, against DK, for the criminal offense of disclosure of secret information and against DK, for the criminal offense of abuse of official position, committed in the period from 2019 to February 2021, in Montenegro, but also to certain countries of Europe and South America", states the announcement of the SDT signed by the prosecutor/spokesman Vukas Radonjic.
The writings
Božović - an official of the New Serbian Democracy (NSD) was arrested on April 13 on suspicion of participating in the organization of three cocaine shipments.
According to the prosecutor's files, in 2019 he was recruited by Mileta Ojdanić to work for the crime team that this man from Tiv formed with the escaped policeman Ljubo Milović.
Božović denied guilt.
In part of the prosecutor's files, it is stated that Ivan Mijatović, in one trip, ensured that 100 kilograms of cocaine owned by Milo Božović were safely transported from the port of Lisbon to the town of Costa da Caparica in Portugal.
According to the prosecution documents, another person was involved in that case, and they are trying to determine her identity through the messages of the Sky application that all the suspects used.
In the same documents, it is explained that on May 9, 2020, around thirty minutes after midnight, from the ship "MSC Fantasia", which was anchored in the port of Lisbon, this third person lowered six orange bags, which contained 100 packs of cocaine.
"In the way that the person who used the pin TL9TOH on the encrypted application 'SKY ECC', acting on the order of the defendant Milo Božović, on 09.05.2020. year, around 00.30:100, from the ship 'MSC Fantasia', which was anchored in the port of Lisbon, dropped six orange bags, which contained a total of XNUMX packages of the narcotic drug cocaine", according to the prosecutor's files.
SDT claims that the cocaine belonged to Božović and that an unknown person took it by boat:
"On the order of the defendant Ivan Mijatović, who acted on the orders of the defendant Milo Božović. After that, the defendant Ivan Mijatović, also acting on the orders of the defendant Milo Božović, transported the said narcotic drug cocaine to a safe location in Lisbon on the same day, and then on 11 May 05 he transported the narcotic drug in question from that location to another safe location in to the town of Costa da Caparica, and all with the aim of further unauthorized sales for the account of the defendant Milo Božović," the files say.
Knezevic
Unofficial sources previously told "Vijesta" that the arrested assistant director of the police, through Ljubo Milović, maintained a connection with the head of the Kavačac criminal clan, Radoj Zvicer.
This information was announced at one of the sessions of the National Security Council.
According to the same statements, the intensity of this communication has decreased since Knežević became the assistant director of the Police Directorate for the fight against organized crime.
"The most intense was at the beginning of 2020, when he was in the sector that was managed by Zoran Lazović at the time", claims the interlocutor of "Vijesti".
The indictment states that he abused his official position in that period - from 2019 to February 2021.
Zoran Lazović headed the Department for Combating Crime from May 2019 to March 2021, when he was dismissed.
Knežević was arrested in March 2023. He denied guilt.
Prime Minister Dritan Abazović then told reporters that he thought Zoran Lazović was the head of the police branch of the Kavačac clan.
His son Petar Lazović, also a policeman, was previously arrested on suspicion of being part of that organization.
"I think that he is one of the leaders of the Kavac clan within the police and that he is part of Radoj Zvicer's wider group. There is also Ljubo Milović, of course, but also many others who are known to the public today, but also many who will be known soon," said Abazović at the time.
We are looking for Milović and the other policemen
Director of the Police Administration, Nikola Terzić, announced yesterday to "Vijesta" that they are looking for all the fugitive officers of that institution, including Ljubo Milović.
"We are always looking for them, they are the persons for whom a warrant has been issued," he said.
He added that he could not say whether Milović, Nebojša Bugarin and Ivan Stamatović had left Montenegro.
Cocaine and elections
The files of the SDT and the SPO state that 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 leading positions in the Police Directorate .
"That with 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 the documents of the prosecution headed by Vladimir Novović.
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