In about a year Aleksandar Aco Mijajlović he ordered, bought and organized the transport of at least 60.000 packs of cigarettes from the United Arab Emirates, which then ended up on the illegal market of Montenegro and other countries through the port of Bar.
This is stated, among other things, in the files of the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) against the so-called Grand team, which he was at the head of with another person whom the investigators are trying to identify.
The prosecution does not state the value of those cigarettes. For the sake of comparison, the authorities previously announced that the 165.612 packs of cigarettes seized in the Free Zone of Port Bar are worth around 122 million euros.
The orders, as he writes, were practically arranged on a monthly basis, and the first one for which the special prosecutors allegedly have evidence took place on November 19, 2019 - at that time he bought a total of 4.760 packs, namely: 2.412 packs of "Trokadrero slim blue" cigarettes, 88 packs of "FM pink slim", 1.000 packs of "FM red" cigarettes, 723 packs of "FM blue slim" and 537 packs of "FM red slim"...
"While on 18.02. in 2021, through a now unknown member of a criminal organization who uses an account with the code 59JZGP on the SKY application, who communicated with the manufacturer of cigarettes and carried out the orders of the organizers of the criminal organization in terms of ordering them, and thus with his actions with intention significantly contributed to the commission of a criminal offense, in "ordered and bought a large amount of cigarettes from the United Arab Emirates, at least five containers with 7.700 packs of FM blue, FM red and Trokadero blue slim cigarettes," state special prosecutors as the last round of Mijajlović's smuggling for which they have evidence.
They explain that he delivered those cigarettes to the territory of Montenegro by using economic and business structures that they have not yet identified...
"He transported the marked cigarettes by sea to the Port of Bar and stored them in the free customs zone, after which the defendant, together with Dejan Jokić, as well as with other now unknown members of the criminal organization, on several occasions, implementing the criminal plan, took them out of the customs warehouse in an unspecified manner and transferred them across the customs line, avoiding the measures of customs supervision... And all with the intention of their further sale and distribution at the customs in the territory of Montenegro and other countries", according to SDT.
Betrayed by Skye
The prosecutors state that the well-founded suspicion that the suspects from that criminal group undertook the actions they are accused of, stems primarily from the content of the communications made through the once-protected application.
"In support of the conclusion about the existence of a well-founded suspicion that the suspect Aleksandar Mijajlović committed a criminal offense, the content of the communications that were made through the SKY Ecc application was put to his charge," it is written in the prosecutor's and court files.
They explain that in the folder containing Mijajlović's communications, there is also a file from which it can be concluded that the suspect is communicating with a so far unidentified member of a criminal organization about the purchase of cigarettes.
"The content of the exchanged messages indicates that the suspect Aleksandar Mijajlović, through this person, communicates with a cigarette manufacturer in the United Arab Emirates, and this person, on the order of the suspect Aleksandar Mijajlović, orders cigarettes from the manufacturer and organizes their boarding on a ship for transport to Montenegro," they assessed. are special prosecutors.
They also explain that, when all of this is connected with the messages that Mijajlović's interlocutor exchanged with another member of the crime team, a clear conclusion is drawn about the quantity and type of cigarettes that were ordered, and that it was done by the man from Podgorica who was arrested on February 19. .
The action in which Mijajlović and seven of his alleged associates were deprived of their liberty began that day.
Spokesman of the Special State Prosecutor's Office, prosecutor Vukas Radonjic, then he announced that Mijajlovic and his team were arrested on the basis of several months of coordinated action by the prosecutor's office, the Special Police Department and the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation - EUROPOL.
At the head of that group, according to the prosecutors, are Mijajlovic and another person whose identity the investigators are trying to establish.
SDT also labeled police officers as members of that organized criminal group Dragan Backović, Milenko Mića Rabrenović, Radoje Rabrenović i Mirko Mijušković, then Golub Vojinović, Dejan Jokić, Zoran Žuto Đukanović and several unknown persons...
The members of that criminal team were arrested almost at the same time as the one that, according to the prosecutors, was formed by a man from Nikšić. Milan Rogač.
SDT designated his fellow citizens as members of that crime team Milan Vukadinović i Mile Simanić.
Allegedly, they did not cooperate with the team from the so-called Grand Clan in the illegal cigarette smuggling business.
The High Court told "Vijesta" that detention was ordered for all those arrested due to the existence of reasonable suspicion that they had committed criminal acts, and as a basis the judge Suzana Mugoša she accepted the danger of running away.
In the decision ordering everyone to be detained, she clarified that they are suspected of creating a criminal organization and the continued criminal offense of smuggling.
According to court documents, Backović is also charged with money laundering, abuse of official position in conjunction with the criminal offense of smuggling...
All those arrested denied committing the crimes charged by special prosecutors.
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