The Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) claims that the smuggling of more than half a ton of cocaine was organized by high-ranking members of the Škalja criminal group Vladan Radoman i Boban Sjeloća, who are on the run.
Part of that organization was also arrested the day before yesterday Mladen Radulović, Vuk Mićić Miranović i Ognjen Ilić, who were also charged for transporting 509 kilograms of narcotic drugs on the Montenegrin ship "Budva".
According to Vijesti, Radulović was a sailor on that ship.
The three were yesterday ordered to be detained by the prosecutor for up to 72 hours, during which they will be brought before a judge for investigation who will decide on the request to order them into custody.
The drug was seized in the German port of Hamburg on May 2, 2020, but the shipment was previously tracked for several days.
The bulk cargo ship of the Barska plovidba company was on its way from the port of Casablanca in Morocco to Hamburg, and according to the German media at the time, "Budva" was intercepted by the maritime police of that country while passing through Dutch territorial waters and followed to German waters. , where she handed him over to the authorities.
During a search of the ship in Hamburg, in one of the parts of the cargo area, hidden behind a partition with a metal cover secured with a dozen large screws, around 500 kilograms of cocaine packed in waterproof bags were found.
There were also ropes, buoys and a GPS transmitter, so the police concluded that the drugs were not supposed to arrive in Hamburg at all, but rather to be thrown from the ship into the sea during its passage past the Dutch and German coasts.
Finding her from the sea by the signal emitted by the GPS transmitter, they would be picked up by the smuggler's associates from the ship in fast smaller boats under the cover of darkness.
The day before yesterday, the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) announced that members of the Special Police Department had deprived three persons of their liberty and that they were against them, Radom, Sjekloća and Marko Radonjić i M. Bošković, who are not available to state authorities, filed a criminal complaint due to the existence of grounds for suspicion that they committed criminal acts - creation of a criminal organization and unauthorized production, possession and marketing of narcotic drugs.
The arrested Ilić is also charged with illegal possession and carrying of weapons and explosive materials.
The prosecutor's office explained that earlier this year, the judicial authorities of Germany submitted the case files to them, with a request to take over the criminal prosecution:
"While the procedure was initiated after the analysis of the electronic communication from the now decrypted SKY ECC application and the acquisition of certain files from the State Prosecutor's Office in Hamburg, and with the approval for criminal prosecution of the Supreme State Prosecutor of Montenegro, because the criminal offense was committed on a domestic ship, and the criminal proceedings against The MR was initiated and completed in a foreign country," the announcement stated.
Radulović was also arrested for the same seizure after the German police searched the ship "Budva", but he was released from custody after six months. His legal team then announced that he had been arrested by mistake.
509 kilograms of cocaine were found on a bulk cargo ship of the Barska plovidba company, which was on its way from the port of Casablanca in Morocco to Hamburg. While passing through Dutch territorial waters, the "Budva" was intercepted by the maritime police of that country and followed to German waters, where they handed it over to the surveillance of the local authorities.
CHARGES AND OFFERS
Last year, the Special State Prosecutor's Office filed an indictment against a ten-member criminal organization for the murders Andrije Gazivoda i Petar Muhadinović in Cetinje in 2020.
According to that information, Vladan Radoman and Filip Ivanovic they managed that group, while Sjekloća was a member of that team accused of double murder.
The defendants are also accused of planning the murders of Vas Gazivoda, father of the late Andrija Gazivoda, Miloš Jovanovć, Kić Paović, Aleksandar Jabučanin.
Andrija Gazivoda was killed on February 17, 2020, when, as stated in the indictment, an unknown member of this group, with the nickname "Karlito", fired 15 bullets at him.
Then on February 27, 2020, Muhadinović was killed - he was killed while driving after an explosive placed under his car was activated.
On that occasion, a minor MK who was near Muhadinović's car at the time of the explosion was slightly injured.
The news previously announced that he is from Cetinje Božidar Jabučanin, offered to an associate of the Kavački clan from Sarajevo - a certain one Mersu, "immediately 200.000 euros" if he kills three skalarians from Cetinje in Pale, with the promise that the head of that clan, Radoje Zvicer, will give even more.
He made that offer to him on February 10, 2021 through the once protected Sky application, after they were detained in Jahorina Boban Sjeloća, Filip Roganović i Milan Krsic.
Radoman was arrested in Italy in 2014 as part of, as the local media reported, one of the largest international operations.
He was accused of leading a branch of the criminal group, which covered smuggling operations in the Netherlands.
The subject of the criminal report and proceedings is the unauthorized transfer for the purpose of sale of 509 kg of the narcotic drug cocaine, by a criminal organization, whose members are Montenegrin citizens deprived of their freedom, by the Montenegrin ship 'Budva', on which the drug was discovered and seized, in the port of Hamburg, in Germany. on May 2, 2020," SDT announced
Arrest in Jahorina
Škaljarci Kršić, Roganović and Sjekloća were arrested on February 10, 2021 in Jahorina, and a day later they were expelled from Bosnia and Herzegovina and deported to Montenegro.
That night, the police, after information that there could be a showdown between the Škaljar and Kavač clans in Jahorina, blocked the roads to that winter tourist center and stopped "golf 5", in which Kršić was, and "golf 7", in which Roganović was and Sjeloća. They were deprived of their freedom after a search of them, their vehicle and the hotel suite where they were staying.
At that time, the spokeswoman for the East Sarajevo Police Department, Vesna Stokanović, told Vijesti television that they were arrested on suspicion that they could be linked to the commission of criminal acts, the unauthorized production and trafficking of narcotic drugs and the illegal production and trafficking of weapons or explosive materials.
On the day they were arrested, several high-ranking members of the Kavac clan were staying in Jahorina.
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