One of the suspects for digging the tunnel to the High Court depot arrested at Stockholm airport

Vladimir Erić has been wanted since September 28 for the purpose of conducting criminal proceedings before the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica.

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Vladimir Erić, Photo: Screenshot/Youtube/RTCG
Vladimir Erić, Photo: Screenshot/Youtube/RTCG
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According to the international warrant of Interpol Podgorica, at the airport in Stockholm, on the way out of Sweden, Vladimir Erić, a citizen of Serbia, who is wanted by Montenegro because of the "Tunel" case, was arrested.

"He arrived at the above-mentioned airport with the intention of traveling to Belgrade, where he was detained on the international warrant of our country. He has been wanted since September 28 for the purpose of conducting criminal proceedings before the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica due to the well-founded suspicion that he committed criminal acts the crimes of criminal association in conjunction with the criminal offense of aggravated theft and the criminal offense of preventing evidence in co-perpetration," the police statement said.

It is added that communication will follow between the Ministry of Justice of Montenegro and the Ministry of Justice of Sweden through judicial channels in order to extradite this person to our competent authorities.

The police administration issued an international Interpol warrant for fugitive miners from Loznica - Milan and Veljko Marković, Dejan Jovanović, who are believed to have, together with Eric, dug a tunnel in the center of Podgorica this summer in order to reach the depot of the High Court building.

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.

The Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica charges Ivica Piperović, Nikola Milačić, Marijan Vuljaj and Katarina Baćović with being part of a criminal group responsible for stealing evidence from several cases before the Podgorica High Court.

Last night, Vuljaj said in front of prosecutor Nada Martinović that Piperović and his brother-in-law Milačić organized the break-in of the High Court depot in Podgorica and the theft of weapons from that courtroom.

Milačić and Piperović are charged with the criminal offense of criminal association and aggravated theft, because the investigators, as they say, believe that they were directly in charge during the digging of the tunnel from the basement of the building in Njegoševa Street number 12 to the depot of the High Court in Podgorica.

Marijan Vuljaj is charged with the criminal offense of assisting the perpetrator after the crime has been committed, because in the previous part of the investigation, the prosecutors obtained information that he rented Katarina Baćović's apartment in the City quarter, where she had been hiding since September 11, when a secret passage was found in the city center.

The police have been looking for Baćović since mid-September, when she was identified as the person who rented the apartment in Njegoševa Street, from which members of the crime team dug a tunnel.

In the investigation of the search of the room where court evidence was kept, her mother Maja Baćović, otherwise the manager of the court's office, was also heard, who denied being involved in serious theft.

The burglary of the court depot was noticed on September 11, when the authorities first determined that someone had "just" rummaged through the evidence. However, while the investigation in the general depot and the cursory list of evidence in the most important cases was still ongoing, it was discovered that the thieves entered the depot through an underground passage from Njegoševa Street number 12...

The first major clue in the case, the van used by the suspects, was found by the police on September 13.

A day later, they also found an apartment in the Podgorica neighborhood of Zabjelo, where their base was allegedly located.

Predrag Mirotić, who is suspected of driving the tunnel diggers from Zabjelo to the city center when they were leaving to build an underground passage to the High Court depot, was arrested on September 23.

He was allegedly their point of contact - he helped them stay in Podgorica and provided them with the tools they used to rob the courtroom.

In the investigation so far, which is managed by the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica, hundreds of hours of footage from surveillance cameras were seized, the tools used by the diggers were found, and the traces of the suspects were also isolated through expert examination...

Operational data from the police indicate that the leaders of the Kavac criminal clan organized the digging of the underground tunnel, and inspectors are still determining what their main goal was.

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