Cetinians Petar Lipovina i Žarko Pejaković they were killed on the spot, after three masked men fired a volley at their "BMW".
The armed assailants, wearing phantoms, waited for their targets shortly after 15:XNUMX p.m. not far from the roundabout at the entrance to Podgorica, opened fire, and then jumped into an Opel Astra, drove to Mareza and set fire to the car.
According to "Vijesti" information, the trio then got into a black car and fled.
The same source claims that the security guards know whose vehicle they entered, which is why the man from Podgorica, who is being taken to that vehicle, was questioned.
However, he stated that he sold that four-wheeler and disclosed the name of the alleged new owner, who is listed as a security person of interest in the police records.
According to "Vijesti" information from the top of the security sector, investigators were trying to determine whether it was a question of retaliation for the recent bomb attack in the capital, when the skalars were killed. Dragan Roganović (36) and Petar Kaluđerović (20), and seriously wounded Taso Jovanovic (46) and Mihajlo Borozan (29)
They were "cut down" after an improvised explosive device placed on a tree in front of the Sports Center there was activated at the beginning of June 2024.
Three months later, at the end of September, a high-ranking member of the Skaljar clan was killed Vasko Lešković.
A man from Cetinje was shot by a sniper in the yard of his house, and the police unofficially said at the time that they suspect that the assailant shot at him from a nearby hill.
Lipovina
Petar Lipovina, according to police information, was a high-ranking member of the Cetinje branch of the Kavaka criminal group and used a vehicle with registration number CTBB271, into which a hail of bullets was fired yesterday.
The other victim - Pejaković, who was recently released from prison - allegedly belonged to that clan.
According to the prosecution, Lipovina is part of a criminal group Radovan Mujović i Vasilij Rafailović, accused of several crimes, including incitement to murder.
Due to failure to issue a first-instance verdict within the legal deadline of three years, he and later Pejaković left the Investigation Prison in Spuz.
His name was once mentioned by the now accused police officers Petar Lazovic i Ljubo Milović, agreeing how to thwart the investigation of the attempted murder of a journalist Oliver Lakic, who was wounded on May 8, 2018 in front of the entrance of the building where she lives in Podgorica.
Lipovina was arrested back in 2019, after the police found and confiscated drugs, weapons, money, means of communication in the apartment he was using...
It was then announced that the officers of that institution located a person of security interest and discovered the so-called Štek apartment in Podgorica that he used.
In that building, they found, among other things, a gun, a wig, a phantom, body armor, drugs, scales for precise measurement, several telephones, two of which are most likely for encrypted communication and domestic and foreign SIM cards.
Pejakovic
Twenty-five-year-old Pejaković was released from prison ten days ago, also due to failure to issue a first-instance verdict within three years of the indictment.
In the Podgorica High Court, at the beginning of July this year, he and Mošo Paović in the repeated proceedings, they were acquitted of having participated in the murder of a fellow citizen from Cetinje Bogdan Milić in 2019. Simultaneously, Lazar Nedović i Pero Lalicic they were sentenced to single sentences of 18 years and 10 months, or 17 years in prison for that crime.
According to "Vijesti" sources, Pejaković was in the same room in Spuška prison with Slobodan Kascelan, during the verbal conflict of that resident of Kotor with Vjekoslav Lambulić.
Emergency session of the National Security Council
Prime Minister Milojko Spajić called an emergency session of the National Security Council for today.
After the session on August 28, it was announced that the security situation in Montenegro is stable.
"It was established that the security situation in the country is stable, that measures and activities are being undertaken to improve the security and protection of the state border, and that ensuring the safety of tourists during the tourist season was a challenge, which was successfully implemented with the coordinated work of all security services," he says. in the announcement.
Police: We have blocked off the narrower and wider area of the crime scene
Yesterday, the Police Administration officially announced that preliminary data show that at least two rooms participated in the commission of a serious crime at the intersection of the main roads Podgorica-Cetinje-Nikšić.
"According to the first preliminary information, at least two persons participated in the commission of this serious crime, who fired several projectiles from a firearm in the direction of the vehicle in which the injured, now fatally injured persons were located, who are members of an organized criminal group. Please note that the deceased Ž. P. was released from custody on October 25 for failure to issue a first-instance verdict within three years for the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization and aggravated murder committed to the detriment of BM in Cetinje," the text states.
They also explain that Lipovina also left UIKS on November 11, 2023, due to failure to issue a first-instance verdict within three years.
"In order to locate the perpetrators, a blockade of the narrower and wider area of the scene was established, and the officers of the Regional Security Center 'Centar', with the strong support of members of the Sector for the fight against crime, and in coordination with the Higher State Prosecutor's Office, undertake reconnaissance measures and actions to clarify this criminal offense , with the outcome of which the public will be informed in a timely manner," added the police text.
The shooting happened shortly after 15 pm, on one of the busiest roads in Podgorica
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