Đukanović: Knežević's safety is threatened, we asked for police protection

Duško Knežević's defense attorney, lawyer Zdravko Đukanović, said that they asked for police protection because Knežević's "safety is at risk."

After Knežević's detention was confirmed, he said that he would appeal the decision of the extrajudicial panel of the High Court in Podgorica.

"Knežević gave a detailed account of how the political persecution began. It is important for the public to know that the whole torture and persecution of Knežević began after Milivoj Katnić's proposal to Duško Knežević to force the Atlas Group drivers to say that they laundered the money, which Slavoljub Stijepović took, for the needs of the Democratic Front. He said that he could not say that, because they were doing it for the needs of the DPS," Đukanović said.

The lawyer added that the defense proposed that Knežević be banned from leaving Montenegro.

"To post bail, the same as it was in London. It is 75 thousand pounds. But we also asked for 24-hour police protection from the anti-terrorist police of the MUP of Serbia, bearing in mind that he was guarded all the time in London by the anti-terrorist unit of Scotland Yard We believe that his safety is at risk, and the fact that the defense is asking for 24-hour police protection in relation to our defendant clearly indicates that there is no intention of Duško Knežević going anywhere the proceedings end as soon as possible and that he present very important facts in all those proceedings, and in the proceedings that we initiated," Đukanović said.