After correspondence about creating opportunities for cocaine smuggling, distributing money from cigarette smuggling, one of the alleged leaders of the Grand Clan, Aleksandar Aco Mijajlović, asked the now-arrested secret agent Petar Lazović to check whether the secret police were listening in on his associates.
The two corresponded about illegal business through the once-protected Sky application, and the transcripts of those messages were submitted to Montenegrin investigators even earlier.
"Someone informed Laki and Pekar that there were measures at ANB. Tell Fr to check if he can," writes Mijajlović on February 18, 2021.
It follows from the messages that Lazović immediately checked and passed on that information to him, so he replied in the affirmative.
Fifteen days later, just four days before the European police "cracked" Skaj, Lazović offers Mijajović to "skin the shipper" if he is a nuisance for his work.
"Is he a nuisance to you, let's skin him. This skipper?", asks Lazović.
“Who ate him. But maybe he broke in because this one wants to unhook him, so now he's scared. None. It's a common spy's pussy. He is corrupt and treacherous, and he is afraid of his lada. "Maybe he sold a lot of the goods, but he didn't report it to the principal, and now he's afraid," Mijajlović replies.
Even after that, the policeman at the time insists on "beating".
"If he can create problems, let's scold him", he says, which Mijajlović does not accept, so as not to "spend loans".
"Why spend credits on him. Totally irrelevant. If he is not there, someone else is found. It's better this way to know who it is," he replies.
In the files that Vijesti has access to, there is no information about the identity of the person Lazović calls Šiptar.
Arrangements for smuggling cocaine
Three months before that, Lazović offered Mijajlović to join the business of smuggling cocaine with the gang.
The then informal leader of the Special Operational Support Team in the most important police sector had previously offered to his colleague from the clan and from the police, Ljubo Milović, to check with Mijajlović the possibilities of smuggling cocaine to Dubai.
"Let's see Aca, he has strong combinations there", writes Lazović on November 30, 2020.
That same night, Lazović wrote to Mijajlović through Sky, and the man from Podgorica answered him after a few hours.
"Do you have any port of departure, if not Rotterdam?" Wherever the ships from Ecuador sail from. We have the possibility from Ecuador to send wherever you want, where you have the possibility to extract it", he sends to Mijajlovic.
Then he forwards to him the messages sent to him by Milović, hidden behind the nickname Oficir, from whom he asked to explain to him precisely what to ask Mijajlović:
"Dal' has control in some port. To be able to safely remove the shipment of goods from the box. I am currently working in Rotterdam. I worked Istanbul, I worked Hamburg and Antwerp. Right now we're just doing Rotterdam. See what positions are available. I can ship anywhere, wherever ships go. I can ship from Ecuador. In a container with other goods".
According to Sky, Mijajlović promised him that he would first see what he could do, after which Lazović informed the escaped policeman that the job could be done through ports in Bulgaria and Greece.
After conveying this to Milović, Lazović forwards the answer of the escaped policeman to Mijajlović.
"It has to be sent from Bulgaria to another place, but that's not a problem, they would organize it from Bulgaria with trucks, that's not a problem."
The policeman asks Mijajlović to "explain everything" he can, and two days later, on December 3, 2020, he offers to do business with them and explains to him how many kilograms of drugs his partners participate in the total load of half a ton:
"Ok, if you're going to tell me how much they're going to put in these days, the officer will say 60, the commander will say 100... This is unrelated to what I asked you now if you're going to Rotterdam. They have for Rotterdam, they work there and now they will do the work, and if you finish this, they will also move, and they will move... and now they are working independently of what I asked you... Now Ecuador will go to Rotterdam, and if you finish, it's a bonus top they say. And now they are calling in a brotherly way, they gave a place for this job. He's not your throwaway brother. Let's tell them by Sunday," Lazović sends to an encrypted account that the Special State Prosecutor's Office claims was used by Mijajlovic.
Arrests and charges
Mijajlovic was arrested on February 19, in a multi-month operation by the Special State Prosecutor's Office and the Special Police Department, in cooperation with the European Union Law Enforcement Agency (EUROPOL).
According to SDT claims, he is one of the organizers of the so-called Grand Clan. Special prosecutors suspect him of creating a criminal organization that smuggled cigarettes with another person, whose identification they are working on.
The SDT named the police officers Milenko Mića Rabrenović, Radoj Rabrenović, Dragan Backović and Mirko Mijušković, then Dejan Jokić, Golub Vojinović, Zoran Žuto Đukanović and several persons whose identification the prosecutors are working on as members of Mijajlović's criminal team.
In the files of the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT), which manages the case, it is stated that the members of that organized group smuggled cigarettes internationally for at least three years - from 2019 to the end of 2021.
"Mijajlović and another person, according to the available evidence, created that organization in 2019," claims the newspaper's interlocutor.
According to that information, correspondence from the encrypted Sky phone application, in which, according to the investigators, the arrested participated, is said to be among the data forwarded from Europol. Some of their lawyers denied the claims.
Special prosecutors suspect that the group gathered around Mijajlovic and one other, so far unidentified person, delivered ships of cigarettes from the United Arab Emirates to the port of Bar, which they then smuggled.
Mijajlović recently pledged with 1,1 million euros that he will not run away if the judges of the High Court let him defend himself from the charges of the special prosecutors.
Lazović and Milović are included in several cases of the SDT, which accuses them of working for the mafia, instead of fighting against it as members of the police.
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