Special prosecutor Miroslav Turković he said that he was sure that his colleague would Ivana Vuksanović formed the case that during the hearing Marko Boljevic noticed any injury in that witness or that he complained about it to her.
He explained that he says this knowing her both as a person and as a professional.
He said this before the judge of the Basic Court in Podgorica, Larisom Mijušković Stamatović, testifying in the continuation of the trial of police officers accused of torturing Boljević.
Suspended policemen were accused of torturing Boljević Nemanja Vujošević, Dalibor Ljekocevic, Bojan Vujacic, Danilo Grbović i Ivan Perunicic.
Turković, who at that time was de facto head of the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica, told the judge at the beginning of his testimony that a lot of time and cases had passed since the interrogation of Boljević, that he did not remember some things, but that he would say everything he remembered.
He said that, as he remembers, in May 2020, after working hours, someone from the police informed him that a citizen, Marko Boljević, had come to them and was willing to share information about the perpetrators of the bomb attacks on the "Grand" bar and the house of the police employee Duško Golubović, but that he did not act in that case and that he does not know whether the witness came to the prosecution himself or was brought.
He pointed out that he could not remember with certainty who it was, but that they could have called him for a specific case Srdjan Korac, Miloš Vučinić or Milovan Pavićević, with the fact that he thinks it was not Pavićević.
Proposed a hearing
Turković explained that at that time, in the cases formed due to the bombings, all the circumstances were established, but that the identity of the perpetrators was not known.
"I came up with the idea that, in accordance with Article 262 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, we should immediately hear him as a witness, which is what I told the duty prosecutor Ivana Vuksanović when I called her," he said.
He pointed out that colleague Vuksanović accepted that proposal and undertook to carry out the task, as well as that he believed that after that she attached Boljević's statement to the case that had already been formed with an official note or some other document.
"I could not, nor do I want to, give instructions to the prosecutors on how to work... I did not give instructions to my colleague on what to ask the witness, because I did not act in a case that had already been formed... The officer of the Police Administration who called me to told me that Boljević was with them, he did not say how long he had been in the police, and it is certain that I did not even ask him that," said prosecutor Turković.
Answering the questions of the representative of the prosecution, the prosecutor Romine Vlahovic, he said that it is not uncommon for witnesses to be questioned at night, as circumstances dictate.
He explained that perhaps his colleague could not even listen to Boljević earlier, because he was also informed after working hours, when he also informed her.
"I can't answer whether he came alone or was brought, because I wasn't there," said Turković.
In the courtroom, he said that he remembered that a colleague had told him that she had asked Boljević why he had come to testify several years after the bombings, but that he was not sure if the witness had answered her and how.
Turković also said that he found out about the torture report when he was informed by the case handler.
"I think that three cases were formed, based on Boljević's applications, Benjamin Mugoša i Jovan Grujičić. I do not rule out that I acted in the Grujičić case," he said.
Vučinić extended the black "astra"
After the special prosecutor, the head of the criminal police station in the Podgorica Security Department entered the courtroom Srdjan Korac.
He said that at that time the SKP officers were using two "Golfs", three "Asters" - two rotten cherries and one dark gray and green "Nisan Mikra".
He answered in the affirmative to the question of prosecutor Vlahović - whether he also uses a black "astra", because, as he claims, she noticed him in traffic in that vehicle.
"It is a car that I received on my personal charge on September 17, 2020," he said, and then explained that at the time of the critical event, that car was being driven by his boss at the time Miloš Vučinić.
He ruled out the possibility that police officers from his station were driving that car on May 25, 2020.
"In order for that car to reach them, hierarchically, it had to go through me... After all, if we need help, colleagues from other stations come to help us with cars that they take longer, and they don't give us vehicles", said Korac.
Yesterday, the judge used as evidence the official notes of prosecutor Vuksanović and the case files that she created after hearing Boljević.
Prosecutor Vlahović said that, judging by the exact time recorded, she appreciates that Boljević was brought to the prosecutor's office, and not that he came alone.
Five policemen are accused by the prosecution of torturing Boljević with electric shockers on May 25, 2020, hitting him with boxing gloves, baseball bats and fists in the upper part of his body and on the soles of his feet, threatening him with murder... strangling him, humiliating him, writing a farewell letter addressed to his family and threatening that they would torture and kill his family, as well as his girlfriend, in order to extort from him a false statement that incriminated Grujičić and Mugoš for placing explosives in October and November 2015.
In another case, Ljekočević was accused of committing the same crime against Benjamin Mugoš, and was subsequently arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking.
The trial continues on November 7, when Vucinić, a police officer, is scheduled to be questioned Radovan Vujičić.
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