The Chief of the Criminal Police Station, Srđan Korać, said in court today that the black "Opel Astra" in which Marko Boljević was driven was driven by the head of the Security Department in Podgorica, Miloš Vučinić.
This was announced by Action for Human Rights (HRA), which followed the continuation of the trial before the Basic Court in Podgorica.
The trial of five police inspectors, Danilo Grbović, Dalibor Ljekočević, Bojan Vujačić, Ivan Peruničić and Nemanja Vujošević, who were accused of extorting a statement with severe violence from Marko Boljević in the investigation of the "bombing attacks", continued, according to the non-governmental organization. 25 May 2020.
"Special prosecutor Miroslav Turković testified, who at the time of the event in question was the head of the Basic State Prosecutor's Office (ODT) in Podgorica. Srđan Korać, head of the Criminal Police Station for Suppression of Blood Offenses and Domestic Violence in the Podgorica Security Center, who was the immediate superior of the accused police officers and led the police operation in which Boljević was interrogated and abused, and in which they were interrogated and Jovan Grujičić and Benjamin Mugoša were also abused," the HRA statement reads.
It is added that prosecutor Miroslav Turković stated that in May 2020, police officers informed him that there was a person in their premises who possessed information about the perpetrators of the bomb attacks on the Grand bar and the house of police officer Duško Golubović.
"In those cases, we worked to identify the perpetrators, because all the other circumstances were more or less known to us. It occurred to me that it would be good if that person (Boljević) was heard as a witness from the duty state prosecutor, since "The prosecutor's office functioned more difficult because of the corona virus. I passed all the information I received from the police to the duty prosecutor, Ivana Vuksanović, and she agreed to examine the witness," said Turković.
Due to the passage of time, he could not say with certainty who exactly called him from the police. He states that according to the hierarchy it should be Miloš Vučinić, Srđan Korać or Milovan Pavićević.
"According to the indictment, after the torture, a policeman drove Boljević in an official vehicle to the ODT building in Podgorica, where the now-accused police officers with phantoms on their heads were in an "Opel Astra" vehicle, and who threatened him that they were waiting for him there. Boljević said in his statement that he remembers that the "Opel Astra" was black," HRA said.
According to them, Srđan Korać, head of the Criminal Police Station, said in court that the black Opel Astra was driven by the then head of the Podgorica Security Department, Miloš Vučinić, during the critical period.
Vučinić was also the head of criminology at the Podgorica Security Center when, during 2020, there were three related cases of torture and torture in the police - Jovan Grujičić, Marko Boljević and Benjamin Mugoša, who were forced to admit under beatings that they had thrown explosives at the house of a long-time operative Duško Golubović and the bar "Grand".
"As far as I know, there is no official prohibition for him to lend the car to subordinate police officers," said Korać in response to a question from prosecutor Romina Vlahović.
Nevertheless, Korać adds that he, as the superior of the defendants, would have to be personally informed about this, which was not the case here.
"During the proceedings, the defendants denied that they transported the injured Boljević from the CB to the hearing at the ODT, but that he came himself. However, at today's trial, acting prosecutor Romina Vlahović emphasized that the documentation in the case shows that the police officer in At 21:55 p.m., he submitted to the prosecutor's office the record of the police interrogation of Boljević. "In my eighteen years of practice, the time of the delivery of the document by the police, I wrote only if the policemen gave it to me when bringing in the person who was being questioned," explained the prosecutor, adding that it is most likely This was also the case here. Since the then police officer Radoman Vujičić was listed as the contact person on the document, his hearing was scheduled for the next hearing," HRA said.
The continuation of the trial is scheduled for November 7 at 11:30 am.
Then, as reported, the questioning of Miloš Vučinić, who at the time of the critical event was the head of the Security Department of the Criminal Police in CB Podgorica, and Srđan Milikić, an officer who was on duty at the reception desk of CB Podgorica, was scheduled.
The HRA said that they will continue to monitor the trial and advocate for a comprehensive investigation and punishment of torture in accordance with international standards that bind Montenegro.
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