The hearing for the review of the indictment brought by the Special State Prosecutor's Office against the former Chief Special Prosecutor Milivoj Katnić and the former assistant director of the Police Administration Zoran Lazović, is scheduled for November 8 in the High Court in Podgorica, an independent consultant for public relations told "Vijesta" Marija Raković.
She added that the indictment will be decided by an extrajudicial panel presided over by a judge Zoran Radovic, president of the court.
Katnić and Lazović were accused of creating a criminal organization and abuse of official position.
Defendant Lazović is accused of having formed a criminal organization, whose members, in addition to Katnić, have also become special prosecutors. Sasa Cadjenovic and the son of Lazović, an agent of the National Security Agency (ANB) Petar Lazovic.
Lazović is accused of being connected with the lifting of the ban on entry into Montenegro of Belgrade citizens Veljko Belivuk i Marko Miljkovic, but also that he was protecting a member of a criminal forgery group Duško Roganovića because, as stated, he ordered former prosecutors Katnić and Čađenović to exclude him from criminal cases.
Lazović is also charged with two criminal offenses of abuse of official position, the extended criminal offense of money laundering and the extended criminal offense of illegal possession and carrying of weapons and explosive substances, and Katnić is charged with two criminal offences, abuse of official position and illegal possession and carrying of weapons and explosive substances.
The SDT explained that the indictment was brought after the evidence gathered in the reconnaissance and investigation established that there is a well-founded suspicion that Lazović organized a criminal organization in 2020, which collaborated with the team of the leader of the Kavac clan, Radoj Zvicer.
"And had the goal of committing criminal acts of abuse of official position, for which by law a prison sentence of four years or more can be imposed, and that by not undertaking criminal prosecution against prominent members of their criminal organization, and for the purpose of obtaining illegal profits and power , where each member of the criminal organization had a predetermined task and role, its activities were planned for a long time and were based on the application of certain rules of internal control and discipline of members, and there was influence of a part of the criminal organization on the executive power - the Police Directorate of Montenegro and other important social factors - Special State Prosecutor's Office".
They point out that they suspect Lazović that in December 2020 in Podgorica, as the assistant director of the Police Administration for the Sector for the Suppression of Organized Crime and Corruption, he illegally used his official position to benefit Belivuk and Miljković, members of Zvicer's criminal organization.
"In the way that, at the request of RZ, which was conveyed to him by his son, the accused PL, he ensured that the ban on their entry into Montenegro was lifted and thus obtained a benefit for them in the form of the right to enter and stay in Montenegro, which was prohibited, because they represented a threat to national and internal security, and which VB and MM took advantage of, because, during January, they stayed in Montenegro, with RZ, the organizer of their criminal organization, but also had a direct meeting and lunch with the accused ZL, who then, together with the defendant MK, and with the aim of concealing the committed criminal act, in public and media appearances, misled the public that these persons entered Montenegro at the request of the police of the Republic of Serbia and that according to them, the Directorate of the Police of Montenegro and he as an elder undertook police measures and actions, in accordance with the law".
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