Retired secret agent Duško Golubović was heard today in the investigation of the murder of the editor of the newspaper "Dan" Duško Jovanović, and he gave his statement in the capacity of a citizen.
He entered the building of the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica around noon.
The head of that prosecution, state prosecutor Lepa Medenica, confirmed to Vijesti that he was questioned in the investigation of the journalist's murder.
She explained that Danko Ivanović Đerić gave the statement before the prosecutor.
The news does not know what Golubović said in front of the prosecutor.
Former Prime Minister Dritan Abazović publicly insisted on his questioning and that of the now-detained security guard Zoran Lazović in that investigation. He also testified before the prosecutor Ivanović Đerić.
After the hearing, Abazović told Vijesti that during his mandate as coordinator of the security services, and later as prime minister, two names - Zoran Lazović and Duško Golubović - were constantly used in operational information related to the murder of Jovanović.
"Everyone mentioned Lazović and a few other names in turn. My role was not to verify that information, but to pass it on to the authorities, which I did, demanding that finally, after two decades of silence and concealment, that crime be brought to light," he said. Abazović, without specifying the context in which those names appeared.
The editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Dan" and a former member of parliament was killed on May 27, 2004 - he was mowed down by shots from an automatic weapon when he left the editorial office of the daily he owned.
So far, only Damir Mandić from Podgorica has been convicted of participation in the murder. In April 2017, the Appellate Court upheld the verdict for complicity and sentenced him to 19 years in prison. In addition to the perpetrators and orderers of that murder, those who conducted the investigation so that the truth is never established escape justice. It has not been determined who is responsible for the fact that there have been no serious results for almost two decades.
Several persons were questioned in that investigation in the past months, among them some journalists who worked in the editorial office whose editor-in-chief was killed in 2004.
At the end of June, journalist Nataša Miljanović Zubac presented the prosecutor with the information she obtained while investigating the murder of Jovanović, which, she claims, could lead to the elucidation of that crime.
A journalist from Radio Television of Republika Srpska as a witness testified before the prosecutor of the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica.
After the hearing, she told Vijesti that she would not share with the public the information she obtained, which she presented to the prosecutor, in order not to jeopardize the investigation, which, she said, seems to finally, after 20 years, lead to the principals and direct executors. of that crime.
In front of the prosecutor Ivanović Đerić and the sister of the murdered police official Slavoljub Šćekić, Slavica Šćekić was questioned after declaring that she saw a document on her late brother's desk that spoke of Vuk Vulević's involvement in the murder of Jovanović.
In a statement to Portal RTCG, Slavica Šćekić confirmed that she received a summons from the Higher State Prosecutor's Office and that she made statements regarding her allegations about the murder of Jovanović.
"During my guest appearance on the show 'Referat', I said that I saw a police document on my brother's desk where it was stated that Vuk Vulević shot from the back seat, resting his right hand on the shoulder of Musa Osmanagić, who was sitting in the passenger seat, to his hand didn't tremble and that's how he shot and killed Duško Jovanović," says Šćekić.
She stated that her late brother discovered who killed Duško Jovanović and that it is not excluded that it cost him his life.
She points out that after the brutal murder, she found a record and a report with the name of the killer in his room.
Last year in the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica, in that investigation, several people were heard, among them Vesna Medenica, who was the supreme state prosecutor when Jovanović was killed.
She testified in the investigation opened in 2021, which is headed by prosecutor Ivanović Đerić.
After the hearing, her legal representative, lawyer Zdravko Begović, told "Vijesti" that Medenica gave her testimony as a witness and that he did not attend the hearing.
"From my communication with her, I can say that yesterday she gave all the information she received from the investigative authorities. She is satisfied with the fact that the investigation is continuing and expects it to be successfully concluded," Begović said in June of last year.
The former director of the Police Administration, Veselin Veljović, was previously heard as a witness.
He was allegedly speaking about the circumstances of the disappearance of the official note in which, after the arrest of the only person convicted of complicity in that murder, Damir Mandić, UP officials wrote down everything he told them that night.
The former first Montenegrin policeman announced a few years ago that the murder of Jovanović was solved operationally, that is, that the police know who did it, but that they have no material evidence.
In mid-September 2019, he said that the fatigue of the competent prosecutor on the night of the liquidation was the reason that the case of the murder of the owner of "Dana" was not fully resolved and that the case was irretrievably lost.
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