At the repeated inspection of the indictment against Ljub Milović, Milo Božović and the other defendants, which ended this evening in the High Court in Podgorica, the defense lawyers demanded that the proceedings against all the defendants be suspended, stressing that the indictment is the same as the earlier one that the court previously returned to the Special State to the prosecutor's office for correction.
Lawyer Miloš Vuksanović said, among other things, that the fight against crime by using Sky correspondence is collapsing the judiciary.
Defense lawyers added that it is clear that, when it comes to Sky communication, it is about public pressure and that it was actualized before the elections.
"The Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) started a campaign in the media a long time ago, by publishing content," said lawyer Bojana Franović, challenging Sky as evidence, among other things.
As the lawyers stated, the SDT did not specify and specify the accusations.
"Everything that was written was written on the basis of Sky. Such a method of mass communication is classic espionage. The indictment does not specify where the drugs are, how they transported them, whether they loaded them on their backs, to whom they were sold. Nothing is known Everything is flat. There is no drug, there is nothing. They say that they went to Ecuador, so it will be seen that they did not," said Dragoljub Đukanović.
He added that as a defense they have the right to request access to evidence, drugs, money and the like. He added that there is no such thing here and that everything stems from the alleged Sky correspondence.
Božović said today at the indictment review hearing that he got the impression that, according to the indictment, he was a member of a criminal organization whose goal was to influence the elections in 2020 in favor of DPS. He added that his political activity was crucial for the dismissal of the DPS, and that therefore the indictment and allegations related to the aforementioned political influence are meaningless. He also stated that as a member of the Parliament, he contributed during the vote for the amendment of the prosecutor's law, after which former chief special prosecutor Milivoje Katnić was dismissed.
The extra-judicial panel of the High Court in Podgorica, presided over by judge Vesna Kovačević, and judges Igor Đuričković and Nenad Vujanović, as members of the panel, in the procedure of control and confirmation of the indictment of the Special State Prosecutor's Office, issued in February of this year, a decision returning the indictment of the Special State Prosecutor's Office , which charges the defendants Ljub Milović and others with the crime of creating a criminal organization, in order to supplement the investigation and correct errors in the indictment. The decision states which criminal acts each defendant is charged with individually.
The indictment charged Ljub Milović with the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization from Article 401, and paragraph 1 in connection with paragraph 6 of the Criminal Code of Montenegro, ten criminal offenses of unauthorized production, possession and distribution of narcotic drugs from Article 300, paragraph 1 in connection with the article 23 paragraph 2 of the Criminal Code of Montenegro, the criminal offense of unauthorized production, possession and distribution of narcotic drugs from Article 300 paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code of Montenegro, the criminal offense of causing general danger, the criminal offense of illegal possession of weapons and explosive substances in connection with the criminal offense of causing general danger, five felonies money laundering.
The defendant Milo Božović was charged with the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization, three criminal offenses of unauthorized production, possession and distribution of narcotic drugs, and the defendant Radoj Zvicer was charged with three criminal offenses of unauthorized production, possession and distribution of narcotic drugs, the criminal offense of unauthorized production, possession and putting into circulation narcotic drugs from Article 300 paragraph 2 in connection with Article 23 paragraph 2 of the Criminal Code of Montenegro.
"The indictment states that the defendant Milo Božović, as a member of a criminal organization, which was created and organized in 2019, had the task of being a member of the Assembly of Montenegro and a member of the Committee for Security and Defense of the Assembly of Montenegro (without stating when he became a member of the Assembly of Montenegro and a member of the Defense Security Committee of the Assembly of Montenegro and whether it was during the period when he became a member of a criminal organization, which is the year 2019) collects information and uses it for the needs of the criminal organization, without specifying concrete evidence or the content of the communications made through the SKY ECC application from which it derives, as well as to what specific information did the defendant Milo Božović, as a member of the Assembly of Montenegro and a member of the Committee for Security and Defense of the Assembly of Montenegro, have access to and what information did he provide as a member of the Assembly of Montenegro and a member of the Committee for Security and Defense of the Assembly of Montenegro to a criminal organization, which makes the indictment in that part unclear and imprecise," it says, among other things, in the decision which returned the indictment for correction.
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In its indictment in the specific case, the SDT states that the defendants are Ljubo Milović, Mileta Ojdanić, Filip Zindović, Petar Lazović, Vladimir Bajčeta, Nebojiša Bugarin, Milan Popović, Božidar Jabučanin, Ivan Stamatović, Radoje Zvicer, Milo Božović and Marko Novaković, in order to realize of the criminal plan, according to paragraph 1 of the indictment from 1-1 to 1-12 of the factual description, based on suspected criminal offenses of unauthorized production, possession and distribution of narcotic drugs from art. 300 st. 1 1 paragraph 4 in relation to Article 23 paragraph 2 of the Criminal Code of Montenegro, describing for each defendant the individual actions they took, but at the same time not giving a closer analysis of the evidence that would support the factual allegations from that part of the factual description of the indictment, i.e. from from which arises a well-founded suspicion that the previously named defendants have committed the criminal offenses charged against them, because the SDT did not in its explanation of the indictment state concrete reasons regarding decisive facts regarding the existence of well-founded suspicion on the part of the named defendants, but only states that the same arises from the correspondence from " SKY ECC communications of those defendants and unknown persons.
"Namely, starting from the factual descriptions of the criminal acts, especially those from Article 300 of the Criminal Code of Montenegro, which, according to the indictment in question, were allegedly committed as part of a criminal plan, and the explanation of the indictment in relation to those criminal acts, it can be seen that the explanation does not contain any further details from which exactly the communication, made through the SKY ECC application, derives what is stated in the factual description, more precisely which concrete communications, between whom and since when do they confirm that the defendants who are charged with the said crime participated in the unauthorized transfer for the purpose of sale Primarily, for this court it is unclear from what concretely arises the suspicion regarding the facts stated in the indictment and refer to the act of transferring the narcotic drug cocaine, where the representative of the indictment states accurate and precise data about the amount of the narcotic drug cocaine, the method packaging of the same, precise share of the individual defendants in possession of the narcotic drug (as described in the indictment for each individual item from paragraph 1 of the indictment from 1-1 to 1-12 of the factual description and each defendant individually,) method of transferring the narcotic drug, according to which certain unknown persons followed the instructions, such as who handed over the narcotic drugs to whom and when, and that it was the unknown persons who acted according to the orders. of the defendants and that the narcotic drug described is the property of the defendants, as it is charged according to the individual items of the indictment, because apart from the fact that the clause of the indictment in question does not mention the correspondence from the "SKY ECC communication between the defendants and unknown persons, from which reasonable suspicion regarding the execution of those actions would arise of the criminal acts in question, but the explanation of the indictment itself does not contain the same", it was stated in the decision which abolished the previous indictment.
Knežević: I am sure that the court will dismiss the malicious accusations against me
"I am sure that the court will make the only decision that can be made in my case, and that is to reject these baseless, flat and malicious accusations against me, which, despite everything that will be proven, have tarnished my honor as well, as and personal and professional reputation. Regardless of all that, I will continue to live honorably and honestly, and I hope to continue my professional career in the same way, during which not a single stain has been recorded, to which everyone I am with can testify. worked, both in Montenegro and abroad," the accused Dejan Knežević, assistant director of the Police Administration, said today.
He said that this kind of indictment is ruining his life because he knows Ljubo Milović.
"I don't give up my acquaintance. If Ljubo Milovć is guilty of something, let him answer. I don't give up my acquaintance, I say that now in front of everyone. I will not answer for others, everyone who is guilty and if he is guilty, let him answer. From the truth, no one neither the prosecutor nor the prosecution can escape," said Knežević.
He recalled the international action of seizing a large ton of cocaine, in which Ljubo Milović helped identify the suspects, and that he received a reward and recognition. He asked why the prosecutor did not state that.
"The special state prosecution, although they had two months to add evidence to the indictment against me, and what the court asked them to do after the first review of the indictment, they did not do it. I don't think they didn't do it because they didn't want to, but solely because they proved that I did not commit the criminal acts for which I am accused, Knežević emphasized.
He referred to Sky's prosecution evidence. "The only basis on which a criminal offense was attributed to me was that my name was mentioned on Sky. I neither used Sky, neither my own nor someone else's, nor did I send or disclose secret information to anyone, through anyone. If the truth is all what I'm saying is best confirmed by the fact that the Special State Prosecutor's Office did not find any evidence for their accusations against me in the additional two months, after the first inspection of the indictment, nor in the past months, including the 10 that I spent in custody information from a meeting that I did not attend, in order to allegedly protect the organizer of the criminal group," he pointed out.
He asked why the prosecutor's office did not listen to the participants of that meeting in order to check what was said at it and whether, allegedly, the secret information given was even mentioned at the meeting.
"They had time to do that both during the investigation and after my arrest a year and seven months ago. At the last inspection of the indictment, I submitted to the court the number of the Europol report, on the basis of which the indictment was filed against me. It clearly states that there is no evidence that I am involved in any criminal activities. This is the position of Europol, which was sent to our prosecutor's office and the police in a package of intercepted conversations. I am sure that Europol did not state that there is no evidence that I am connected to criminal activities, because, well, it likes there a certain Dejan Knežević, but that they have carefully considered all the information in which I am mentioned," said Knežević.
He added that it turns out that the Special State Prosecutor's Office does not trust Europol in that regard.
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