Today, with the testimony of Nikola Janičić, an officer of the Police Administration of Montenegro, the trial of Radovan Mujović, Vasilj Rafailović and the other defendants continued in the High Court in Podgorica.
Janičić, before the special panel of judge Igor Đuričković, invoked the obligation to keep official secrets in the proceedings against Radovan Mujović. He was supposed to be heard regarding the defendants' allegations that they submitted to police torture during the arrest and investigation. In addition, he also spoke about his official departure to Bijelo Polje prison.
Judge Igor Đuričković issued an order to obtain confirmation from the Police Administration as to whether the statements of the witness are correct, whether his actions are an official secret, what is the degree of secrecy, and whether the acts are related to this court proceeding.
"Regarding the event for which I was summoned, I was at that time a member of the Department for the Suppression of Serious Criminal Offenses. I received an order from my superior to go to the UIKS - Bijelo Polje prison and perform a certain official action. It is classified as secret" , said Janicic.
He added that the department where he worked asked the prosecution for an order, and the prosecution asked the investigating judge of the Podgorica High Court. He stated that the person he was treating at that time, during the visit to UIKS Bijelo Polje, was not from this case and was not in the courtroom.
The Special State Prosecutor's Office filed an indictment against Radovan L. Mujović and Vasilij B. Rafailović, for the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization, and Petar V. Lipovina, Mitra D. Marković, Filip M. Knežević, Žarko Ž. Pejakovića, Lazar M. Nedovića, Aleksandar B. Ćetkovića, Boško Ž. Pavlović, Serbian citizens Jovan Mirković and Aleksandar Stevanović, Marko A. Zorić, Nikola Z. Marić, Đurđevac V. Uroš, Filip M. Bešović, Goran V. Rakočević, Ivan R. Brnović, Nikola P. Drecuna, Đurđevac Z. Aleksandra, Moša I. Paović, Uroš V. Vučinić, Davor H. Avdić and Nemanja M. Zurovac, for the criminal acts of creating a criminal organization. At the beginning of 2017, the defendants Mujović and Rafailović created a criminal organization for the purpose of committing criminal acts, whose members became the accused, as well as Bajram Pista and Marinko Rajković, who were designated as cooperating witnesses by the decision of the High Court.
Mujović was accused of causing general danger by incitement, serious bodily injury by incitement, and Marić and Uroš Đurđevac, causing general danger and illegal possession of weapons, Ćetković - serious bodily injury by incitement, Drecun for the criminal offense as an accomplice of serious bodily injury, while Rakočević, Bešović , Knežević, Lipovina and Marković accused of causing general danger through incitement, and Nedović and Pejaković as accomplices for the criminal offense of causing general danger.
The defendants Mirković and Lipovina are accused of having committed the criminal offense of aggravated murder by incitement. Radovan Mujović was also charged with the same criminal offense, who, as stated in the indictment, asked Pista Bajram to "butcher" MB, the wife of associate witness MM. accused of "aggravated attempted murder", while Knežević was accused of two criminal offenses of incitement to murder", the indictment states.
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