Accused head of a criminal group Mileta Ojdanic and a member of that organization Milo Bozovic they feared the arrival Predrag Šukovića to head the police, but the politician assured him that this would not happen.
A former policeman, now accused of smuggling cocaine, and a former deputy of the Democratic Front, who, according to the prosecution's claims, also participated in that illegal business, talk about it at the beginning of 2021, on the then-protected Sky phone application.
Božović then tells his, as he calls him, godfather - that the then Deputy Prime Minister Dritan Abazovic "pushing" the current head of the Special Police Department (SPO) to become the director of the Police Directorate.
"He is pushing Peđa Dritan for police director," writes Božović on January 11, 2021, via an encrypted application.
Ojdanić replies that Abazović's political movement URA has been doing this since the beginning.
"From the start, the URA has been pushing, begging us, so that no one can hear me," he states in a text message.
Budvanin - then a member of the Parliamentary Committee for Security and Defense, smiles at those words, then explains to him what is happening behind the scenes...
"Hahahahaha... But, godfather, we gave our candidate, it looks like he will pass"...
"God forbid Peđa godfather, let me tell you... I wouldn't like it at all." I'm telling you honestly," the former Police Department official replies.
The then deputy in the state parliament claims that he told Šuković to get rid of that job, because he will not support him...
"I told him not to hand in the papers, since he won't get our support... as long as no one hears me. I told him not to hand in the papers since he won't get our support... as long as no one hears me," he writes.
"Hahahaha, it's just so that no one hears, but piii", replies the interlocutor.
"He told me that he won't... He says, then I won't teach so that I don't get in trouble," claims Božović.
Ojadnić notes that this is great news.
However, at that time, Šuković was running for the position of head of the police...
Božović then clarifies that the position should be taken over by a lawyer Drazen Medojević.
Medojević applied for the competition for the head of the Police Directorate that year, but was not shortlisted after the Human Resources Directorate published a list of candidates who passed the preliminary part of the competition for the head of the Police Directorate.
It was assessed that he did not have five years of work in a managerial position in the police, court or prosecution system, which is prescribed by law.
Then, in a statement to Vijesti, he said that he would not have applied for the position of police director, that the people from the Government who were involved in the interpretation of the law before the procedure had not told him that he had all the conditions and suggested that he should apply...
"It should be Dražen Medojević," says Božović.
"That's for the director, isn't it, brother," asks Ojdanić.
"Yes Yes"...
"I don't know him, but he's a great man," says Ojdanić.
The man from Budva then says that the assistants will be two of his friends, which causes Ojdanić to be delighted...
"And the assistants are two of my friends... This one is a lawyer Andrijin (Mandic) from the coup"...
"It would be great".
"Oh, godfather, not great, but very good," adds Božović.
And then, through a smile, he adds that Ojdanić told Ivan not to leave the police yet...
"Tell Ivan not to leave the police, take it easy"...
"Hahaha"...
"Yes, what would you run for," concludes Božović in a conversation from January 2021.
Situation Development
In February 2021, after fluctuations in the Government, Zoran Brđanin he was elected first as an acting director, and later as a full-time police director.
He was elected after nine candidates were tested in the Personnel Administration - apart from him, there were also Dragan Klikovac, Dragan Radonjic, Drazen Vuković, Milan Delic, Dragan Arsovic, Siniša Kovačević, Vojo Laković i Zoran Braunović.
Predrag Šuković, who has been in the security system for almost 30 years at the request of the chief special prosecutor Vladimir Novović, at the end of April 2022, he was appointed head of the Special Police Department, where in a little more than two years he changed almost the entire composition and set up a system for dealing with voluminous cases of the SDT.
Since Novović headed the SDT, SPO officers have arrested a huge number of members of organized criminal groups, a large number of voluminous indictments have been filed and numerous investigations have been opened into the creation of a criminal organization, corruption and war crimes...
During his police career, Šuković held numerous managerial positions, and in 2012, when Božidar Vuksanović was the director of the Police Directorate, he covered the position of head of the Department for Combating Organized Crime.
At that time, he was investigating a series of threats and attacks against the "Vijesti" journalist. Oliver Lakić, but I also suspect that behind the Mojkovac factory "Tara" is hidden cigarette smuggling in which high-ranking police officials are involved.
During the director's era Slavko Stojanović, and later after returning Veselin Veljović at the head of the UP, Šuković was removed from leadership positions in the scheme of the police apparatus.
In the summer of 2016, he was wounded in the very center of Podgorica, and the person who shot him was never identified, nor was the case and motive clarified.
Because of this case, he was arrested three months later, and then the retired colonel was put on trial Radovan Aleksić.
The military officer claimed from the beginning that the trial against him was rigged, that it had nothing to do with the shooting of Inspector Šuković, which was later confirmed by a final court decision.
The indictment against the police cartel
Ojdanić and Božović were accused in the same case, along with former assistant director of the Police Directorate Dejan Knežević, police officer Ljubo Milović and others...
The indictment against the so-called police drug cartel was brought by the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT), and with that act a total of 21 people are charged with, among other things, smuggling about 4,3 tons of cocaine, laundering about seven million euros, illegal influence on political and executive power and the results of the parliamentary elections in 2020, but also the use of violence and intimidation...
Among them are 12 former police officers and those who were active in the service at the time of their arrest.
The SDT identified Ojdanić and the fugitive inspector for combating drug smuggling Ljubo Milović as the organizers of that criminal team that worked for the Kavački clan.
In that case, SDT prosecutes i Ivan Stamatović (40) They will not be Bulgarians (43) Petar Lazović (33) Marko Novaković (37) Milan Popović (40) Miloš Mišurović (41) Vladimir Bajcet (43) Goran Stojanović (40) Dejan Knežević (50) and Darko Knežević (44) that they cooperated in criminal affairs with the former president of the Municipality of Budva Božović (46), the head of the Kavački clan Radoj Zvicer (41) Božidar Jabučanin (46) Aleksandar Keković (31) Dražen Milović (36) Filip Zindović (34) whose last name was earlier Kljajevic, Ivan Nikolić (37) Tihomir Adzic (38) Ivan Mijatović (38) and more NN persons.
Individuals in that crime team are accused of having, on the orders of Milović and Ojdanić, organized the smuggling of cocaine from Ecuador to the countries of the European Union and Turkey, transported money obtained from cocaine to Serbia and Montenegro, but also used violence and intimidated other persons, acquired large quantities of weapons and explosive materials...influenced the appointment of persons close to them to leadership positions in the Police Directorate...
Blue notebook...
Detained Milo Božović was a member of the DF from September 2020 to April 2022, and for a time he was in the Committee for Security and Defense.
Božović was arrested in April 2023 by order of the SDT on suspicion of being a member of an organized criminal group, which was involved in smuggling large quantities of cocaine from Latin America to Europe.
During the review of the indictment against Božović and other members of the criminal organization in the High Court in Podgorica, his legal representative at the time, lawyer Milo Jovanović, delivered to the court a "blue notebook" in which the former deputy entered important information as a member of the Parliamentary Security Committee.
Božović's defense published a "blue notebook" in the media and submitted it to the court in order to prove that "he is not part of a criminal clan that smuggled cocaine, as stated in the indictment, but that he advocated for the disclosure of the connections of criminal clans and their helpers in the police , in which he was allegedly assisted by Predrag Šuković".
The notebook contains handwritten suggestions, advice and information, which the defense claims Šuković gave to Božović during 2021.
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