After processing the transcripts submitted by Europol, the Montenegrin investigators tied up Radovan Raš Perović and Bojan Ojdanić from Budva and Vjekoslav Lambulić from Podgorica with the previously arrested President of the Municipality of Budva Milo Božović and Mileta Ojdanić from Tivčan...and handcuffed them yesterday.
On the order of the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT), they were arrested by members of the Special Police Department (SPO), who searched the properties of Perović, Bojan Ojdanić and Lambulić.
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The state prosecutor and spokesperson of the SDT, Vukas Radonjić, explained to "Vijesta" that they were arrested on suspicion of having committed the criminal acts of creating a criminal organization and unauthorized production, possession and distribution of narcotic drugs.
Yesterday, Perović, Ojdanić and Lambulić were brought to the SDT building for questioning, after which special prosecutor Jovan Vukotić ordered them to be detained for up to 72 hours.
"After the hearing, the suspects were detained for 72 hours from the time they were deprived of their liberty," Radonjic told "Vijesta".
Investigation
Yesterday's arrest did not put an end to the investigation launched a few months ago, nor is the list of those deprived of liberty final, "Vijesti" learns.
"SDT and SPO will continue their work in this case, because a large part of the Sky correspondence has arrived, so new arrests are expected when the analysis is finished," said the interlocutor of "Vijesti" involved in the investigation.
He explained that yesterday's action followed as an extension of the investigation conducted by the SDT against several persons, among them Božović, Mileta Ojdanić, Miloš Mišurović, the escaped policeman Ljubo Milović and Filip Zindović, who is on the run.
Allegedly, the investigators identified Perović, Ojdanić and Lambulić as users of accounts on the Sky application, through which larger quantities of cocaine were ordered from Mileta Ojdanić, who was arrested in mid-March, claims the interlocutor of "Vijesti".
"At the top of the criminal pyramid was Mileta Ojdanić, who through his connections was a link in the procurement of cocaine from Latin America," explains the same source.
According to "Vijesti" information, the investigators, in addition to the encrypted communication, also recorded the contacts of Mileta Ojdanić with those arrested yesterday, but also determined that criminal deals were arranged in a bar at the entrance to Budva.
Yesterday, Ojdanić, Božović and Mišurović were questioned in the Special State Prosecutor's Office.
They were taken for questioning from the Investigation Prison, where they are being held on suspicion of being part of the police drug cartel.
We work uncompromisingly to break clans! The fight against crime and corruption as a key prerequisite for a safe and economically stable state is the responsibility of the Government. We show every day that compromise with the mafia is not an option. I congratulate SDT, SPO and PTJ on the activities carried out, the Minister of Internal Affairs Filip Adžić announced yesterday
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Prosecutor Jovan Vukotić first, around 18.30:XNUMX p.m., questioned Božović, and after him the prison officers brought Ojdanić and Mišurović into the SDT building.
"In addition to the suspects who have been deprived of liberty, MB, MO and MM, who are in custody in another criminal proceeding, were heard as suspects. A criminal complaint was filed against them and against Lj.M. and FZ, who are on the run," prosecutor Radonjić told Vijestima last night.
Two items
In addition to the case in which they were suspected yesterday, Božović, Mileta Ojdanić, Mišurović, Milović and Zindović are also included in the investigation in which an indictment has already been filed against more than 20 members of the so-called police drug cartel.
The hearing for the control of that indictment is scheduled for today.
On the list of accused are the head of the Kavaje criminal clan, Radoje Zvicer, whose right-hand man in that business was the escaped policeman Milović.
Analyzing the evidence, the SDT determined that Milović involved several colleagues - active and former police officers, mostly his godfathers and friends - in the business of drug smuggling and money laundering.
In addition to them, the indictment includes escaped police officers Ivan Stamatović and Nebojša Bugarin, their arrested colleagues Petar Lazović, Miloš Mišurović, Goran Stojanović, Milan Popović, Ivan Nikolić, Dejan Knežević and Marko Novaković.
Božidar Jabučanin from Cetinje, Aleksandar Keković from Podgorica, Darko Knežević from Podgorica, former police special officer Vladimir Bajčeta, Tihomir Adžić, Filip Zindović from Bjelopolska, formerly Kljajević, and Dražen Milović from Trebinje, who lives in Grahovo, and Budvanin are part of the crime team. 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...
Investigators have previously emphasized that they still need to determine who the remaining members of the criminal group, which operated on the territory of Montenegro, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ecuador, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Turkey, and other European countries, are still unknown to them. and South America.
Perović, the godfather of Milo Božović and the head of SPO Predrag Šuković
The arrested Perović is the godfather of the detained President of the Municipality of Budva, Milo Božović, as well as the head of the SPO, Predrag Šuković.
The head of the SPO also said at the session of the Security Committee in March of this year, and after the arrest of Milo Božović, in response to a question from a member of parliament, that the godfather of the first man of Budva is also his godfather.
"It is not a secret, this is a small country and we are all connected. I don't know why you emphasize that story, because I knew a lot of these policemen who were arrested, so we acted. I guess that is proof to you that we acted professionally. It is not easy for us in the SPO to prosecute people we know, there are our colleagues, friends and godfathers, but what is processed by the SPO, and what is submitted to the SDT, and that is the subject of a criminal offense, we will act according to the order of the SDT. This is not the first case in the SPO, we had close contacts with the persons we prosecuted, but we found strength and acted professionally", Šuković said at the time.
They searched for the father, arrested the son as well
Viktor Lambulić from Podgorica was arrested yesterday for illegal possession of a weapon, and after a hearing at the Basic State Prosecutor's Office, he was detained for up to 72 hours, "Vijesti" has learned unofficially.
Viktor, the son of the arrested Vjekoslav Lambulić, had a gun found after the police searched the properties owned by his father.
According to the unofficial information of "Vijesti", the ODT Podgorica charges him with the criminal offense of illegal possession of weapons and explosive materials.
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