Turkey has again asked Montenegro to extradite Binali Camgoz, "Vijesti" has learned.
"They sent exactly the same request as last time," said a "Vijesti" source familiar with Ankara's request.
In January of this year, the Minister of Justice, Andrej Milović, refused to extradite Camgoz to Turkey, justifying his decision by the foreigner's impaired health and ethnicity, even though the decision of the High Court became final on June 1, 2023, which determined that the conditions had been met. for the extradition of that accused for the most serious crimes...
Milović said that Camgoz would face possible persecution because of his ethnic affiliation to the Kurdish community, adding that Camgoz would not receive adequate treatment in Turkish prisons.
That decision was one of the first disagreements with Prime Minister Milojko Spajić, which later resulted in Milović's expulsion from the Europe Now Movement (PES), but also in Milović's recent request to Spajić to propose his dismissal, claiming that Spajić was dragging the party, the government and the state into an "abyss." ".
On July 6, 2022, Camgoz was arrested in Podgorica, and the Police Directorate announced at the time that he had a forged passport with the name Mehmet Ali Bayhan.
Five other Turkish citizens were detained with him, and the Turkish media then announced that they were also wanted by their authorities.
Camgoz is allegedly the leader of an organized criminal group, and according to the Turkish media, his criminal record includes various crimes, murder, wounding, kidnapping, detention, extortion and torture committed in Izmir and its surroundings, illegal collection of checks and bonds...
In October 2021, the Turkish police launched an operation to arrest members of his criminal group, but Camgoz was already safe in Georgia. Members of the Police Administration of Izmir province, that is, their Department for the fight against organized crime, had 57 members of Camgoz's gang on the list for arrest that day.
They arrested 35, and Camgoz and 21 other members of that clan escaped arrest.
In September 2022, the cell in which he was staying with five other members of the organized criminal group the Kavački Clan was searched in the Investigation Prison in Spuz.
This was done only a few days after the Turkish police determined that members of the Camgoza criminal clan participated in the murder of the absolute leader of the Skaljar clan, Jovan Vukotić.
In late January and early February, the police administration filed two criminal charges against Čamgoz.
Initially, he was arrested on January 30 by order of the Podgorica ODT Podgorica.
After he was handcuffed at the Reception Center for Foreigners and escorted to the police station under strong security measures, the Ministry of the Interior announced that in 2022, using a fake passport, he and another Turkish citizen founded the company "Lion ".
The judges of the Basic Court in Podgorica then rejected the prosecution's proposal to detain Çamgoz, who is wanted by Turkey for the most serious crimes.
Seven days later, the Police Directorate filed another criminal complaint against that fugitive. Then they announced that he committed the same criminal offense on June 9, 2022.
"...When he submitted a request for a temporary residence and work permit to the officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Branch for Administrative Affairs, Citizenship and Foreigners, Budva - he presented a forged travel document in the name of Mehmet Ali Bajhan, 'in which way he misled the officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who issued him a temporary residence permit'"...
Then they explained that according to the laws of Montenegro, Čamgoz cannot get permission for a temporary stay in Montenegro, since he does not meet any conditions according to the Law on Foreigners of Montenegro.
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