The Police Administration issued an international Interpol warrant for the escaped miners from Loznica - Milan and Veljko Marković, Dejan Jovanović and Vladimir Erić, who are believed to have dug a tunnel in the center of Podgorica this summer in order to reach the depot of the High Court building.
The Ministry of Justice announced to "Vijesti" that last Friday - September 29, they gave consent to the Police Directorate to issue international warrants for the fugitive group from Serbia through the Interpol channel.
The consent of the Ministry of Justice was given only one day after the Basic Court in Podgorica, at the request of the prosecutor Marko Mugoša, approved the decision to send a search through international police channels for mafia hitmen, who are suspected of digging a secret passage from the basement of the building to the depot of the High Court during August and ten days of September.
The Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica charges four fugitives from Loznica, who had no registered residence in Podgorica, for taking 15 pistols and three rifles from the court camp, as well as part of the criminal case files, which were kept in the basement of the Montenegrin judiciary.
In this case, custody was ordered only for Podgorica Predrag Mirotic, who is suspected of providing logistical support to diggers from Serbia during their work underground.
The police are also looking for one or even two women, whose photos were published in the media, due to the suspicion that they played a role in the criminal project.
The police and the prosecutor's office have not yet disclosed who ordered the summer job, as well as who was involved in the organization of the demanding undertaking. The members of this group are charged with criminal conspiracy, theft and preventing evidence, which can be punished by a prison sentence of at least five years.
ODT Podgorica previously disclosed that the group began to operate when an unknown woman, using a fake identity card in the name Andrijana Marić, through a real estate agency from Podgorica, leased office space in the basement of the building next to the High Court in Podgorica.
That woman, who police say is allegedly Katarina Baćović, on July 24, signed a three-year lease with the owner of the office space, with a monthly rent of 1.400 euros.
In the order to conduct the investigation, it is noted that the owner of the business premises was misled regarding the identity of the tenant and the purpose of using the business premises. When signing the contract, she arranged for the keys to the basement to be taken over by a male person who falsely introduced himself as Edin Adžihmetović. On August 7, he took over the key from the mother of the owner of the business premises, after which the Serbian citizens began the task of digging a tunnel to the High Court building, from which they are only separated by a street.
"In order to obtain illegal property benefits for themselves or someone else, by overcoming major obstacles and breaking through, the defendants Veljko Marković, Milan Marković, Dejan Jovanović and Vladimir Erić, using suitable tools from the basement premises, dug an underground tunnel about 30 meters long to the Više depot of the court in Podgorica, where the evidentiary material from the cases that are being conducted or have been completed before that court is located," the prosecution document says.
The members of the group, as it was established, had been digging the tunnel for a month. They broke through the concrete wall at the depot and entered that room through the opening from September 8 to 11. They searched and examined everything they found there. They then broke into the locked office where the weapons are kept and took away a large quantity...
They took the arsenal of weapons through the tunnel to the basement, then packed them in suitcases and nylon bags and transferred them by taxi to an apartment in the Zabjelo neighborhood in Podgorica.
On the same day, when a secret passage in the heart of the city was discovered, Mirotic, according to a previous agreement with the Serbs, drove their "Mercedes Sprinter" to the Zeta settlement of Botun in a Renault Klio. It is believed that they then threw the tools away in Morača and hid the van in Botun.
Suspects Marković left Montenegro at the Šćepan Polje border crossing, and Dejan Jovanović at Dobrakovo, while Vladimir Eric is not known if and how he left the country.
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