Where and how did the "miners" run away: One by taxi to Serbia, two by bus to Bosnia and Herzegovina

A few hours after the removal of the pistols and rifles from the depot of the High Court, Jovanović reached Bijelo Polje, and Marković reached Foče

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Police and forensic experts in Botun, where part of the suspects' tools were found, Photo: Boris Pejović
Police and forensic experts in Botun, where part of the suspects' tools were found, Photo: Boris Pejović
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A few hours after the removal of pistols and rifles from the depot of the High Court in Podgorica Dejan Jovanovic (31) he reached Bijelo Polje, from where on the same day, September 11, he crossed the border with Serbia by taxi, at the Dobrakovo crossing.

This was established by police officers and prosecutors in the "Tunel" investigation, who found evidence that Veljko Marković (32) and his uncle Milan Markovic (53) on the same day boarded a bus traveling to Sarajevo, but bought tickets to Foča, which was their final destination.

The two were recorded by surveillance cameras at the bus station in Podgorica, and the exit from the country was recorded by the border police in Šćepan Polje. Their colleagues on Dobrakov recorded when Erić left the country, and that Serbian citizen was also filmed at toll booths on the highway.

"In relation to the defendant Vladimir Eric (32) there is information that he entered Montenegro, while he has no registered residence in Montenegro, and the search for him so far has not yielded results, so it is clear that he is hiding and that he is unavailable to state authorities," he told "Vijesta" unofficial source from the investigation.

Markovici, Eric and Jovanovic
Markovici, Eric and Jovanovicphoto: Boris Pejović

Those four from Loznica are suspected of having, on the order of the organizer of the criminal group, who has not yet been identified, with several other unknown persons, raided the court depot and stole from it several pistols and rifles seized during the investigation of several criminal offenses.

from Podgorica Predrag Mirotić (31), the only one arrested so far, suspects that he helped them hide the tools and the vehicle they used, but also that he drove them in his car.

Mirotic
Miroticphoto: Jelena Jovanović

His fellow citizen Katarina Baćović they are asking because of the suspicion that she rented them a business premises from which they dug a tunnel to the court depot.

The police were still looking for that woman from Podgorica yesterday.

According to "Vijesti" information, they determined with whom she contacted and where she moved until the day her identity was discovered, but not where she was lost.

Baćović
Baćovićphoto: Boris Pejović

Baćović's role was to rent office space in Podgorica's Njegoševa Street, for which she submitted a false identity card in the name of Andrijana Marić.

From July 14 to September 8, the suspected Serbian citizens dug an underground passage to the court depot from the basement premises rented by her, and then until September 11 they stole weapons from that premises.

According to the suspicions of the prosecution and the police, Baćović's connection is between an employee of the High Court and a miner, but also a connection between the executors of the work and their helpers from Montenegro.

In the investigation of the robbery of the depot, her mother was questioned MB who is also the manager of the court registry.

The police and the prosecutor's office are determining whether Baćović also abused her mother at the expense of the mafia.

In the meantime, the investigators found out that this woman from Podgorica is also connected with members of the criminal clan from Tuzi.

Investigation

The burglary of the court depot was noticed on September 11, when the authorities first determined that someone had "just" rummaged through the evidence. However, while the investigation in the general depot and the cursory list of evidence in the most important cases was still ongoing, it was discovered that the thieves entered the depot through an underground passage from Njegoševa Street.

The first major clue in the case, the van used by the suspects, was found by the police on September 13.

A day later, they also found an apartment in the Podgorica neighborhood of Zabjelo, where their base was allegedly located.

In the current investigation, led by the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica, hundreds of hours of footage from surveillance cameras were seized, the tools used by the miners were found, and a man from Podgorica who helped them in that illegal business was arrested and taken into custody.

It has also been established who are the contractors for the digging of the 30-meter-long tunnel to the court depot, and the authorities claim that they are one step closer to the motive and those who ordered that illegal work.

Operational data from the police indicate that the leaders of the Kavac criminal clan organized the digging of the underground tunnel, and inspectors are still determining what their main goal was.

"There is a certain connection between this criminal organization and one person from the High Court and members of a criminal organization, who reside in the Administration for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions, and are connected to one of the most organized and probably the most powerful criminal organizations in our country... We also have a clue who leads us towards the principals", said the Minister of the Interior two days ago Filip Adzic.

At the same press conference, the head of the Podgorica ODT, the prosecutor Dusko Milanović, he said, however, that the prosecution does not yet have sufficient conviction or evidence that criminal groups dug the tunnel.

"It is, as I understand it, operational police data that has yet to be investigated."

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