This is a politicized process and the current government in Montenegro "lives" on this indictment.
This was announced by the lawyer to the journalists yesterday Borivoje Borović, after the review of the indictment against 21 people, including the mayor of Budva, was postponed Milo Bozovic, a former secret agent Petar Lazovic, former assistant director of the Police Administration Dejan Knezevic.
The validity of the indictment will continue to be determined in court on November 15, after the request for postponement was proposed by the defense attorneys Ljub Milović, lawyers Bojana Franović, Milan Kovačević and Dragoljub Đukanović.
Before the president of the non-trial panel, judge Vesna Kovačević, they explained that they need up to 30 days to prepare their defense.
Judge Kovačević previously said that no lawyers attended the hearing Borivoje Đukanović i Željko Đukanović, defense attorneys of the defendant Dejan Knežević.
Addressing the court, lawyer Dragoljub Đukanović said that his colleagues asked him to inform the court that they had received neither a summons nor an indictment.
The defendant Knežević then addressed the court, stressing that it is not necessary for lawyers to be present, as long as the hearing is not postponed.
"I can do everything myself, so that the hearing is not delayed," he said.
Attorney Nikola Martinovic, defense attorney Petar Lazović, he told the court that they were ready for that indictment "in the middle of the day, in the middle of the night"...
Belgrade lawyer Borović told journalists that the procedure was being politicized, recalling that they offered millions of dollars to defend Lazović from freedom.
"We offered the largest bail in the history of the Montenegrin judiciary. They want the procedure at any cost, under the pressure of the public dictated by the current political top, Prime Minister Dritan Abazović, so we are witnessing that this is one of the politicized procedures", stressed lawyer Borivoje Borović.
Martinović added that they told the court that they can overturn the indictment in its entirety:
"Because there are no indications or evidence in it of any participation of Petar Lazović in criminal acts. The impression is that the prosecution wanted to involve Petar Lazović in any case and activity, so that he would be the spice in every indictment", said lawyer Martinović.
Lawyer Bojana Franović announced before the panel that she had heard that SDT has a program that makes it easier to "read" the alleged SKY communication and indicated to the court that she is requesting that defense lawyers be given the opportunity to do so, so that they have equal working conditions.
Special prosecutor Jovica Vukotić said that this is correct and that the SDT will do its best to deliver it to everyone in the same form.
In mid-September, the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) filed an indictment against the so-called police drug cartel, which included 21 people, including Božović - accused of creating a criminal organization and drug smuggling, as well as police official Dejan Knežević, who will eventually be tried. for disclosure of secret information and abuse of official position.
The Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) filed an indictment against 21 defendants.
They are accused Milo Božović, Radoje Zvicer, Ljubo Milović, Dejan Knežević, Mileta Ojdanić, Ivan Stamatović, Nebojša Bugarin, Petar Lazović, Milan Popović, Miloš Mišurović, Marko Novaković, Ivan Nikolić, Goran Stojanović, Božidar Jabučanin, Aleksandar Keković, Vladimir Bajčeta, Tihomir Adžić , Filip Zindović (Kljajević), Darko Knežević, 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 prosecutor/spokesman Vukas Radonjić.
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 the man from Tiv formed with the escaped policeman Ljubo Milović.
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 9/5/2020, around 00.30:100, from the ship 'MSC Fantazija', which was anchored in port in Lisbon, dropped six orange bags, which contained a total of XNUMX packages of the narcotic drug cocaine," the prosecutor's files state.
SDT claims that the cocaine belonged to Božović and that it was taken by a so far unknown person 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.
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