The prosecutor was looking for a "bug" in Katnić's cell

The state prosecutor on duty conducted an inspection of the room - the cell in the UIKS Remand Prison where the detained person Milivoje Katnić is staying, "Vijesta" from ODT Podgorica was told. They explain that the investigation was attended by a court expert from the IT profession, while the search of the cell was carried out by authorized police officers of the Danilovgrad Security Department. "During the investigation, the traces and the object were excluded, which will be examined", it is stated in the answers submitted to the newspaper

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They also removed light bulbs, looking for the device: Katnić after his arrest, Photo: BORIS PEJOVIC
They also removed light bulbs, looking for the device: Katnić after his arrest, Photo: BORIS PEJOVIC
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Milivoje Katnic he reported to the authorities that his prison cell was being bugged, which is why the basic state prosecutor conducted an inspection of the room in the Directorate for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions (UIKS) where the former chief special prosecutor resides.

The Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica, which he manages, confirmed this to the news Dusko Milanović, explaining that this work was done after they initiated a search warrant by the competent court.

"I am informing you that a case has been opened in the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica based on the report of the MK, and that the duty state prosecutor, after initiating a search warrant by the competent court, conducted an inspection of the room - the cell in the UIKS Investigation Prison, where he is staying detained person of the MK, and the investigation was attended by a court expert from the information and technical profession, while the search of the cell was carried out by authorized police officers of the Danilovgrad Security Department", the prosecutor's office replied to the letter.

They also explained that during the investigation, the traces and the object were excluded, which will be examined, without specifying what they were doing.

According to the unofficial information of Vijesta, during the investigation, the lighting in the cell was also removed, because Katnić insisted that the listening device could be installed in the light socket.

The same interlocutor of the newspaper claims that the former head of the Special Prosecutor's Office resented the fact that the case was being handled by the Basic Prosecutor's Office instead of the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica.

Cabinet and "bug"

After the change of the thirty-year government of the DPS, in 2021 a listening device was found in Katnić's former office, for which the former head of the secret police, Dejan Peruničić, was arrested and charged.

From several unofficial sources, it was then confirmed to the News that the "bug" was installed in 2017, while certain repairs were being carried out in the premises of the Special State Prosecutor's Office...

Katnić then told reporters that the indications were that this illegality was committed from the National Security Agency.

The Parliamentary Committee for Security and Defense also dealt with that case at a special session, and one of the participants later told Vijesti that the statement of the agent who installed the device in Katnic's cabinet and who allegedly said that he did so on the orders of his superiors was recounted to the deputies. and that he allegedly did not know that it was an illegal activity.

The then chairman of the Security and Defense Committee Milan Knezevic, announced that the room from which Katnic's cabinet was bugged was not in the ANB.

"We received information about where that material ended up, we received information from which room the wiretapping took place. I can only tell you that this was not done in the National Security Agency", he said at the end of October 2021.

The High Court in Podgorica again recently closed to the public the trial of the former head of the ANB Peruničić and the official of that institution Srđa Pavićević, after three cases for illegal wiretapping and monitoring of citizens were consolidated against them.

Judge Igor Djurickovic he decided so for the sake of keeping the secret and public order.

Peruničić is accused of having organized the monitoring and eavesdropping of several political, then opposition leaders, journalists, clerics, journalists, as well as the former chief special prosecutor...

According to the SDT, he gave verbal orders to Pavićević on several occasions to follow and observe the mentioned several persons in the area of ​​Podgorica, Budva and Cetinje, using technical means for photo-documentation, without a previously issued written order.

Pavićević is accused of coordinating those activities on the order of Peruničić and participating in them himself, without a previously issued written order for monitoring and observation, even though he knew and was obliged to know that this was contrary to Article 11 of the Law on ANB.

Arrest of Katnić

Katnić and the former assistant director of the police for the fight against crime, Zoran Lazović, were arrested on April 14, for allegedly helping members of the Kavac criminal clan.

In the files of the SDT, it is stated that the former security guard and the former prosecutor only formally undertook the actions of the team he leads Radoje Switzerland.

It is explained that Katnić knew the codes under which the leaders of that criminal organization write on the Sky application, but did not take any action to process them.

On the contrary, it is stated, he agreed with the position of his then subordinate prosecutor Saša Čađenović not to initiate proceedings against one of the bar owners Duško Roganović, thereby helping Zvicer, Milan Vujotić, Dragan Knežević, Radoj Živković and others.

The documents also state that Katnić misled the public that the accused criminals from Belgrade, Veljko Belivuk and Marko Miljković, entered Montenegro at the request of the Republic of Serbia and that measures and actions are constantly being taken against them, while Lazović enabled those members of the Kavaka clan to cross freely. border, at the request of Switzerland.

Belivuk and Miljković were on the blacklist of the Montenegrin security services, and then the ban was lifted from their names.

"Vijesti" published several transcripts from the Sky application, which document that former agent Petar Lazović and several of his colleagues from the police were friends with the leaders of the Kavački clan and their colleagues from Serbia, while the leaders of the police and the prosecutor's office simultaneously assured the citizens that they had nothing to worry about. .

Chocolate for the setting

Not long after he was elected Chief Special Prosecutor, Katnić said that "certain structures" were waging a war against him, the Special Prosecutor's Office, the Supreme Prosecutor and his family, that they offered millions to certain special prosecutors, and that a set-up was ready for his wife.

At that time, they did not answer the questions - who specifically is waging a special war against the prosecution and the prosecutor.

At the same time, Katnić said that they tried to bribe his wife "in the case of a cafe".

He explained that, after the decision in the administrative procedure, chocolate with 4.000 euros was intended for her.

"Two policemen were waiting for her at the exit, but luckily, she didn't take the chocolate," said Katnić.

At the time, he also claimed that everyone in the Special and Supreme Prosecutor's Offices was offered "various privileges, such as education of children abroad, employment"...

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