One of the suspected tunnel diggers to the depot of the High Court in Podgorica, Vladimir Eric (32) from Loznica, was arrested two nights ago at the airport in Stockholm, while trying to board a flight to Belgrade.
According to "Vijesti" information, Erić, whom the Montenegrin police had been looking for since September 28, was handcuffed on October 13 around 20 p.m.
The Montenegrin police announced yesterday that Erić was arrested on the basis of an international warrant issued for him by the Interpol office in Podgorica.
"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 the criminal offenses of criminal association in connection with the criminal offense of aggravated theft and the criminal offense of preventing evidence in co-perpetration," the Police Directorate announced.
They also explained that they will request the extradition of Eric from Sweden:
"Communication between the Ministry of Justice of Montenegro and the Ministry of Justice of Sweden follows through judicial channels in order to extradite this person to our competent authorities."
Eric and his fellow citizens Dejan Jovanovic (31) Veljko Marković (32) and his uncle Milan Markovic (53) are suspected of digging a tunnel from the basement of a building in Podgorica's Njegoševa Street to the High Court depot from the end of July to September 11, and then stealing several weapons from it.
The police established that Jovanović and Marković fled Montenegro on the same day when it was discovered that the courtroom had been ransacked, and they did not have precise information about Eric, where and how he left the country.
It was established that Jovanović, when he reached Bijelo Polje, escaped to Serbia by taxi, and that the Markovićs went to Foča by bus. The police are looking for the three of them.
Hearing in court today
In addition to the four from Loznica, the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica also suspected a woman from Podgorica of breaking into the High Court depot. Katarina Baćović, Ivica Piperović, Nikola Milačić i Predrag Mirotić. Tuzanin Marijan Vuljaj he is suspected of helping Katarina Baćović to hide and run away from the police.
Mirotic was arrested on September 23, and Baćović, Piperović, Milačić and Vuljaj on October 12.
Vuljaj and Baćović confessed their guilt before the police and accused the rest of the crime team.
According to the files from the investigation, which "Vijesti" had access to, Baćović immediately after her arrest told what she was doing for the group that dug the underground tunnel and ransacked the depot of the High Court in Podgorica. She denied, however, that she knew what they were doing at the time.
Allegedly, she also said that Milačić was involved in all of this.
New police and prosecutor Marko Mugoša they charge that, using a forged identity card, she rented an apartment in the basement of the building at Njegoševa street number 12, from which the mafia dug a 30-meter-long tunnel.
Vuljaj told the inspectors what his alleged emotional partner, Katarina Baćović, told him about the robbery of the depot - that Piperović and his brother-in-law Milačić organized the break-in of the courtroom and the theft of weapons from the cases pending before the High Court.
He admitted to them that he helped her hide, even though he knew that the police and the prosecutor's office were looking for her on suspicion that she had committed several crimes.
He said this at the hearing before the prosecutor Nadjom Martinović, which heard four arrested in the case of digging an underground tunnel from a building in the center of Podgorica to the courtroom with evidence.
Piperović, however, denied guilt, claiming that, apart from his brother-in-law, he does not know any of the suspects in that case.
And he says he hasn't seen his brother-in-law for the last month.
They, as well as the arrested Katarina Baćović, were detained for up to 72 hours.
According to the unofficial information of "Vijesti", ODT Podgorica will propose to the investigating judge of the Basic Court in Podgorica to order them into custody. It is planned that the judge will pronounce on this proposal today, after hearing the suspects.
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.
In the investigation of the search of the room where the court evidence was kept, the mother of the suspect Baćović was heard. Maja Bacovic, otherwise the manager of the court registry, who denied involvement in aggravated 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 and remanded in custody for up to 30 days.
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