"Radoje, don't push anything with this product from your program, because it will fall these days. Did you hear Radoje", is one of the phone messages that the policeman Milenko Mića Rabrenović exchanged with his namesake, also suspected of cigarette smuggling.
This is stated by the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT), in the files against the so-called Grand Clan, headed by, they claim, Aleksandar Aco Mijajlović.
The illegal cigarettes that Milenko Rabrenović sold and distributed were kept in a secret location in Nikšić, from where they passed the official border crossings and ended up on the black market in the surrounding countries.
The SDT explains that the arrested officer of the Police Administration was engaged in this work during 2020 and until March 2021, acting within the criminal organization he formed. Aleksandar Aco Mijajlović with one other person.
Rabrenović was deprived of his liberty on February 20, 2024, in an action by members of the Special Police Department (SPO).
"Within the criminal organization, according to his role and tasks, he was involved in the sale, distribution and concealment of non-customs goods - cigarettes, in a way that is now unknown from members of the criminal organization and from the defendant Golub Vojinović on several occasions during the indicated period, he bought duty-free cigarettes, which... in order to realize the criminal plan of their further transfer and sale through the customs line - while avoiding the measures of customs supervision, as well as for the purpose of further sale, distribution or concealment on the territory of Montenegro, he sold and spread to other members of the criminal organization, so the member of the criminal organization is the defendant Radoj Rabrenović, on several occasions sold and directly or through other now unknown members of the criminal organization, for further sale and distribution, handed over a large amount of unduty-free cigarettes," the SDT documents against the alleged criminal organization state.
It is explained that, according to the results of the investigation, there is a well-founded suspicion that Radoje Rabrenović and Mirko Mijušković were involved in cigarette smuggling in the same period...
"By breaking up and hiding cigarettes on several occasions, and by the suspect Mirko Mijušković, through the defendant Radoj Rabrenović, ordering a large quantity of cigarettes from the defendant Milenko Rabrenović, which cigarettes were previously purchased by the defendant Milenko Rabrenović, from whom he then, in accordance with the previous agreement, was bought and taken over by the accused Radoje Rabrenović, and transported them together with so far unknown persons to an unspecified location in Nikšić, where the accused Radoje Rabrenović and Mirko Mijušković, together with other now unknown persons who were members of a criminal organization, concealed the cigarettes by hiding them in to an auxiliary facility at a currently unspecified location, for further sale and distribution," the SDT files added.
Special prosecutors are still determining who is next to Aleksandar Ac Mijajlović, the second head of the criminal organization from Grand.
Their documents state that 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," the newspaper's interlocutor said earlier.
They were arrested on charges of creating a criminal organization and smuggling Mijajlovic, then the policemen Milenko Mića Rabrenović, Zoran Žuti Đukanović, Radoje Rabrenović, Dragan Backovic i Mirko Mijušković, including Dejan Jokic i Golub Vojinović.
The arrested denied their guilt at the hearing.
Special prosecutor and spokesperson of SDT Vukas Radonjic, told the News at the time that the action against that group was carried out in cooperation with the European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Law Enforcement Authorities (EUROPOL), which for years has been providing local investigators with material on the basis of which dozens of people allegedly connected to organized crime were arrested.
The so-called Grand Clan was labeled by several officials of the previous government as the main cigarette smugglers:
"These people are at the head of the criminal pyramid," said the former prime minister Dritan Abazović, after it was sold by the company Bemax, its owner Ranko Ubović, Mijajlovic and a former security guard Zoran Lazovic sued for defamation because he labeled them criminals.
Mijajlović's name is not officially in the Bemax company, although he has been known for years as a co-owner of that construction giant.
However, he is the director of the company "Alec Montenegro", whose founder is Bemax. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the company "Arena B", whose founder is also officially Ubović's company. He is an authorized representative of the company "S & I INVEST", whose owner is also Bemax.
Because of texts about cigarettes, they threatened back in 2011.
A trial was held against Milenko Rabrenović due to accusations that he sent monstrous threats to the then "Vijesti" journalist Olivera Lakić and her family in February 2011.
Rabrenović was acquitted in the court proceedings by the decision of the judge of the Basic Court in Podgorica, Larisa Mijušković Stamatović, and she based the verdict on the opinion of telecommunications expert Predrag Boljević.
During the procedure, that expert suddenly changed the basic finding, where he first claimed that the same person used telephone devices and cards during the same time interval, from which threatening calls and messages were sent on February 9 and 10, 2011.
Journalist Lakić was threatened while she was publishing articles about the smuggling of cigarettes from the Tara factory in Mojkovac to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia, and suspicions that high-ranking police and ANB officials were involved in that business...
From the first day when the threats started, Lakić claimed that they were coming from the top of the police because on the same day when the threatening messages were sent to her, Veselin Veljović sent a "courier" to "ask" her not to write about the factory.
When she refused, the same evening she was threatened with an attack on the child.
Former police chief Veselin Veljović was arrested on July 24 last year on suspicion of being part of the criminal organization of fugitive Aleksandar Mrkić, and of giving official information to members of that clan, which is believed to have been engaged in cigarette smuggling.
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