Podgorica police officer Goran Stojanović, accused of being part of the so-called "police cartel", after ten months of detention, was arrested again on Friday evening at the exit from Spuša prison due to a new case of the Special State Prosecutor's Office.
According to "Vijesti", the panel of the Appellate Court revoked Stojanović's detention, which was imposed on him due to accusations that he misused his official position to give confidential information and data to a criminal organization, which was managed by Radoje Zvicer from Kotor and police officer Ljubo Milović.
The decision to lift custody for Stojanović was made on the day when a marathon hearing was held to control the indictment before the Specialized Chamber of the High Court in Podgorica, which was brought against 21 people, including the mayor of Budva, Milo Božović, secret agent Petar Lazović, and a former assistant UP director Dejan Knežević...
The SDT charges that criminal organization, among which, in addition to Stojanović, former and current UP officers - Mileta Ojdanić, Ivan Stamatović, Nebojša Bugarin, Milan Popović, Miloš Mišurović, Marko Novaković, Ivan Nikolić, Vladimir Bajčeta, Tihomir Adžić and Ivan Mijatović - are accused. for smuggling 4,3 tons of cocaine, laundering around 7.000.000 euros, but also for causing general danger, illegal possession of weapons, abuse of official position...
The indictment, which was submitted to the High Court in mid-September last year, also includes Božidar Jabučanin, Aleksandar Keković, Filip Zindović (Kljajević) and Dražen Milović.
Goran Stojanović, an officer of the search service of the Podgorica Security Department, was arrested on March 17 last year in a major operation by the SDT and the Special Police Department against a group of former and current UP officers, who are believed to have worked for the mafia for years.
The SDT has so far submitted two indictments against Stojanović - the first was handed over to the High Court in Podgorica at the beginning of August 2023, due to accusations that he gave data from the Police Administration system to the accused member of the Kavac clan, Milan Vujotić, and fugitive Radoj Zvicer.
According to the indictment, he forwarded data on the movements of police patrols to Vujotić, and in this way, according to the SDT, facilitated the criminal group's preparations for numerous attempts to liquidate high-ranking members of the Skaljar clan, Jovan Vukotić and Jovan Jovanović.
The special state prosecution accuses Stojanović of becoming a member of a criminal organization headed by fugitives Zvicer and Vujotić during 2020 and 2021.
"Using the powers he had as an employee of the Police Directorate, Stojanović directed other police officers to locations safe for members of the criminal organization, in order to enable them to remain undetected. Stojanović's task was to collect information on the movement of , the activities and positions of police officers, their appearance and service schedule," states SDT.
He forwarded the data he collected as a UP official to Vujotić.
In this way, as claimed by the SDT, Stojanović obtained a benefit for Vujotić in the form of the disposal and use of information from the Police Directorate, enabling him to use the data thus obtained to direct the actions of members of his criminal organization and gain power.
During the hearing at the SDT, Stojanović claimed that he was not a member of Zvicer and Vujotić's criminal organization.
On January 20 last year, the SDT filed an indictment against Zvicer and Vujotić, as organizers and members Slobodan Kašćelan, Dragan Knežević, Goran Vukčević, Igor Terzić, Danilo Bakić, Stevan Kraljević, Radovan Mujović, Vladan Lučić, Filip Knežević, Ratko Živković, Milutin Knežević , Miloš Jovanović, Milutin Čotar, Vladimir Vučković, Dejan Rutović and Srđan Jurišević.
The SDT accuses that group of having been formed to carry out an unspecified number of liquidations, arms smuggling and abuse of official position...
The SDT indictment alleges that Zvicer and Vujotić incited the murder of Jovan Jovanović from Kotor, a close associate of the deceased Vukotić, who was lost in 2020.
Jovan Vukotić was killed on September 8, 2022 in Istanbul.
Due to the organization of Vukotić's murder, the court proceedings against Milan Vujotić and 15 other persons are ongoing in Turkey. Vujotić was released on bail at the beginning of November last year, and the local court imposed measures prohibiting him from leaving the country and mandatory reporting.
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