The Council of the High Court in Podgorica, in the court proceedings against Milo Božović, Ljub Milović, and the other defendants, issued a decision by which the two indictments were combined so that a single proceeding will be conducted.
The indictment with which the merger was proposed at the previous hearing refers to 13 defendants, who are also accused in today's proceedings.
An inspection of both indictments is scheduled for Tuesday at the High Court in Podgorica.
The subject of the indictment is the acts of unauthorized smuggling of the narcotic drug cocaine from South America to Europe, for sale, in a total amount of 5.160,605 kilograms, as well as the transfer of money obtained from the sale of drugs from the Netherlands to Montenegro, in order to conceal its origin in the amount of 1.375.000 euros, and on the occasion of which events the special state prosecutor's office previously filed an indictment against 21 persons, it was announced earlier from the SDT.
The extra-judicial panel of the Podgorica High Court, presided over by judge Vesna Kovačević, earlier returned the indictment against Ljubo Milović, Milo Božović and the other defendants to supplement the investigation and correct irregularities.
After the SDT corrected the deficiencies, the indictment was submitted to the court for control.
With this indictment, the SDT charged former police officer Ljub Milović (40), Mileta Ojdanić (51), Ivan Stamatović (40), Nebojša Bugarin (43), Petar Lazović (33), Marko Novaković (37), Milan Popović (40), Miloš Mišurović (41), Vladimir Bajčeta (43), Goran Stojanović (40), Dejan Knežević (50) and Darko Knežević (44), Milo Božović (46), Radoj Zvicer (41) and Božidar Jabučanin (46), Aleksandar Keković (31), Dražen Milović (36), Filip Zindović (34), Ivan Nikolić (37), Tihomir Adzić (38), Ivan Mijatović (38) and several unknown persons.
Among other things, they are charged with creating a criminal organization, money laundering, unauthorized production, possession and distribution of narcotic drugs and illegal possession of weapons and explosive materials.
"Today, the Special State Prosecutor's Office submitted an indictment against 21 defendants to the Special Department for the Trial of Criminal Offenses of Organized Crime, Corruption, Terrorism and War Crimes of the High Court in Podgorica: Lj.M., MO, IS, NB, PL , MP, BJ, MM, AK, VB, GS, DM, FZ, IN, TA, MN, DK, MB, for criminal acts of creating a criminal organization, against Lj.M., MO, IS, NB, PL, MP, BJ, MM, AK, VB, MN, RZ, DM, FZ, MB and IM, for the criminal offenses of unauthorized production, possession and distribution of narcotic drugs - about 4 and 300 kg of cocaine, against Lj.M., IS, MO , BJ and MN, for the criminal offense of money laundering - about seven million euros, against MM, AK and Lj.M., for the criminal offense of causing general danger and illegal possession of weapons and explosive substances, against DK, for the criminal offense of disclosing secret information and against DK, for the criminal offense of abuse of official position, committed in the period from 2019 to February 2021, in Montenegro, but also in certain countries of Europe and South America," said spokesman and special state prosecutor Vukas Radonjić in an earlier statement.
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