The defendant Zoran Lazović, former assistant director of the Police Administration (UP), accused of creating a criminal organization and abuse of official position, today before the non-trial panel of Judge Zoran Radović in the High Court in Podgorica, referred to the allegations of the prosecution, as well as the words of the special prosecutor Miloš Šoškić , pronounced during the control of the indictment on November 8 and 18.
At the beginning of the presentation, Lazović thanked the media for the great interest, so that the other side could be heard.
"I am convinced that you will show personal courage and make a just decision. I have no doubt that this is a political process. I will not fail to say that I recognized the hatred of the prosecutor. They looked at me as a terrorist. These centers were thought up outside of Montenegro, with contractors works in Montenegro. The goal of the mission is to criminalize us and to destroy the operational work, and to put the wind in the back of the criminal organizations that we have prosecuted", said Lazović, addressing the indictment control today. to the extrajudicial panel of Judge Radović.
He added that selective justice is at work.
"We had a trial in the hall of the Parliament of Montenegro, and political committees, with the violation of the presumption of innocence, all to create an image in the public without confirming the indictment. Maybe the prosecutor got my profile from a secret service in the area. I did not prepare the defense. I have no what should I defend myself from. My problem is the fanatical fight for Montenegro, my temerity and my courage. I see that they buried me alive, I'm telling you: I'm still alive. For me, death is not a tragedy. It's a tragedy to live without morality," said Lazović.
Lazović denied the allegations made by special prosecutor Miloš Šoškić at the previous indictment review hearing, that he gave a car to Radoj Zvicer, the head of the Kavaje criminal clan.
He said there was no evidence that the armored car was his.
"It is easy to check whether I was the owner of that car. It is very easy to check. Can you think that I am giving a car to the head of a Swiss criminal organization. As a man who has worked in the service for 30 years, I would never accept that, he said.
Regarding the loan, which the prosecutor stated, he gave 500.000 euros to Darko Šarić, Lazović invited the prosecutor Šoškić to hand over the evidence for that accusation.
"And to be my witness when I ask for that money to be returned to me. Because it is not logical to forgive someone that much money," said Lazović.
Regarding the alleged lunch with Zvicer, Veljko Belivuk and Marko Miljković, the accused Lazović said that the minimum of professional correctness was for the prosecutor to listen to, as he said, "all the tigers, lions, cheetahs" that he had identified, in order to say whether was at that lunch.
Today, the hearing continued in the High Court in Podgorica, during which the indictment of the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SST) was filed against the former chief special prosecutor (GST) Milivoj Katnić and the former assistant director of the UP Zoran Lazović.
Katnić and Lazović were accused of creating a criminal organization and abuse of official position.
Lazović is accused of having formed a criminal organization, whose members include, in addition to Katnić, special prosecutor Saša Čađenović and Lazović's son, agent of the National Security Agency (ANB), Petar Lazović.
Zoran Lazović is accused of being connected with the lifting of the ban on entry into Montenegro of Veljko Belivuk and Marko Miljković of Belgrade. He is also accused of protecting a member of the criminal racketeering group, Duško Roganović, because, as stated, he ordered former prosecutors Katnić and Čađenović to exclude him from criminal cases.
The SDT brought an indictment to the Special Division of the High Court in Podgorica against Zoran Lazović, for the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization, two criminal offenses of abuse of office, the extended criminal offense of money laundering and the extended criminal offense of illegal possession and carrying of weapons and explosive materials, and Milivoje Katnić. for the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization, two criminal offenses of abuse of official position and illegal possession and carrying of weapons and explosive materials.
The SDT explained that the indictment was brought after it was determined from the evidence collected in the reconnaissance and investigation that there is a well-founded suspicion that Zoran Lazović, in 2020, in Montenegro, organized a criminal organization, whose members became the defendant Milivoje Katinć and the accused Petar Lazović, and Saša Čađenović and other persons unknown for now, who collaborated with the criminal organization organized by Radoje Zvicer.
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