By listening to secret surveillance measures, reading documents and messages, the trial in the "coup d'état" case continued today in the High Court in Podgorica.
The defendant Mihailo Čađenović informs Democratic Front (DF) officials Slaven Radunović and Andrija Mandić that he received a call from a "relative", that is, from Saša Čađenović from the special prosecution.
"I got a call. They are looking for me, they know where I live. They found me", said the accused Čađenović in a telephone conversation.
The interlocutor replies: "Nothing, you know some things".
Then a conversation was overheard in which Čađenović informs Radunović that his hearing at the prosecutor's office is scheduled for Thursday at 11 a.m., while the DF official replies: "Okay, we'll hear from you."
The day before the hearing, Čađenović informs Radunović that he went to SDT to hand over medical documentation to them.
“You shouldn't have gone. I think you should have just sent the documentation to someone in order to postpone the hearing for a while," Radunović told him.
Then, in the wiretapped phone conversations between Čađenović and Mandić, one of the leaders of the then DF could be heard calling him to meet.
“What about the boss? said Čađenović, and Mandić said to him: "Where are you Miško? I'll come for you in a few minutes."
"Come on," replied Čađenović.
In the courtroom, telephone conversations between the accused Dragan Maksić, Branka Milić, Milan Dušić and Srboljub Đorđević were overheard. On October 15, 2016, after arriving from Serbia, they spent seven hours at the train station in Podgorica, where they were waiting for Pajo Velimirović to pick them up and hand over the promised money.
Accused Maksić then called a certain Čaruga where he told him that they had arrived and that Velimirović had been gone for more than five hours.
"Hello brother, it's Dragan. I'm only packing with people back. I can't stand at the station for six hours anymore," said Maksić, to which Čaruga replied that he would call him again.
Accepting the appeals of the defense attorney, the Appellate Court of Montenegro annulled the first-instance verdict in this case.
"The panel annulled the first-instance verdict because in the process of its adoption and in the verdict itself, significant violations of the provisions of the criminal procedure were committed, and because of which neither the factual nor the legal conclusions in the first-instance verdict could be accepted, both in relation to the existence of the criminal offenses for which the accused were charged guilty, as well as in relation to the existence of their guilt for those acts", stated in the announcement of the Appellate Court.
They then clarified that, deciding in the second-instance proceedings on the reported appeals against the verdict of the special division of the High Court in Podgorica, they accepted the appeals of the defense attorneys of the accused and the appeal of the accused Bratislava Dikić, in the part in which the accused were declared guilty of having committed the criminal acts of creating a criminal organization and terrorism in an attempt to...
With the overturned verdict, the leaders of the Democratic Front (DF) Andrija Mandić and Milan Knežević were sentenced to five years in prison each, for, as the indictment states, membership in a criminal organization since February 2016.
The organizers of that group - Russians Eduard Šišmakov and Vladimir Popov - were sentenced to a total of 27 years in prison.
The former commander of the Serbian Gendarmerie Bratislav Dikić was sentenced to a single sentence of eight years, and Predrag Bogićević and Nemanja Ristić to seven years in prison.
By the same decision, Srboljub Đorđević and Milan Dušić were each sentenced to one and a half years in prison, Branka Milić to three years in prison, Dragan Maksić to one year and nine months in prison, while Kristina Hristić was given a suspended sentence.
DF driver Mihailo Čađenović was sentenced to one year and six months in prison.
The indictment states that the two Russians organized a criminal group and recruited other members for the purpose of obtaining illegal profits and power, violently overthrowing the government and declaring the electoral victory of DF and preventing Montenegro from joining the NATO alliance.
The criminal organization, it is stated, planned to, on the day of the parliamentary elections on October 16, 2016, with the help of the Democratic Front, clash with the Montenegrin police and forcefully occupy the Parliament of Montenegro, as well as to kidnap and kill the then prime minister and the current president of Montenegro. Milo Đukanović.
The money is with Sinđelić and Paja
In the intercepted telephone conversations, it was heard that a certain Čaruga called the accused Branka Milić and said: "God help you, Branka, said Čaruga, and she replied: "God help you, duke".
She stated that they have been waiting at the station for seven hours and that it is unbelievable that there is no one to pick them up.
"The funds have not been paid to me," says Branka Milić. Poton Maksić addresses Čaruga in an angry voice.
"Hello, what did you organize? For me to sit for seven hours like an idiot, we paid 9.500 tickets and we have nothing to return. Branka called Paja three times. As you know and know how, find money for us to return home," Maksić told Čaruga.
He answers that the money is with Saša Sinđelić and Paja Velimirović. After some time, Dragan Maksić calls Čaruga to tell him that they managed to find a room.
"Let's go to rest. See you, long live," he finished the conversation.
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