Strike at the top of the tobacco mafia: SPO arrested several people on the order of SDT, including police officers

Police officers Predrag Vučurović, Dragan Backović and Predrag Mijušković, businessmen Saša Pekić and Srđan Jokić, Goran Janketić from Podgorica and Nikola Glomazić from Plužine were arrested this morning in an operation by the Special State Prosecutor's Office and officers of the Special Police Department.

That action is aimed at depriving the freedom of persons who are believed to be at the very top of the tobacco mafia.

Vijesti reporters, who are in front of the SPO headquarters, stated that the arrests of the suspects from this morning's operation have begun.

The new strike followed months of work to gather evidence against the most important pillars of the multi-year, international cigarette smuggling scheme through Port Bar.

Jokić is the owner of the company Casa Del Mobile Montenegro, importer of the famous furniture brand Dogtaš.

Nikola Glomazić is employed at the Protection and Rescue Service in Plužine.

Police officer Backović was also arrested in February, also on suspicion of being connected to cigarette smuggling. Then businessman Aleksandar Mijajlović was arrested as the organizer.

Apart from them, members of the SPO handcuffed Golub Vojinović, Mirko Mijušković, Dejan Jokić, Zoran Žuta Đukanović, as well as members of the police Milenko Mića Rabrenović and Radoj Rabrenović.

"Vijesti" announced in July that SDT claims that Backović saved 800 packs of cigarettes from Golub Vojinović by transferring confidential official data to him, and that a member of a criminal group nicknamed Lauda helped them during the dislocation of those illegal products.

In their files against the so-called Grand Clan, it is stated that this border policeman used a phone with an application for protected communication and in this way delivered police information to a colleague from a criminal organization that helped them smuggle tobacco products.

The new strike followed months of work to gather evidence against the most important pillars of the multi-year, international cigarette smuggling scheme through Port Bar.

NOTE Predrag V. Mijušković, born in Nikšić on May 26, 05, with permanent residence in Budva, Markovići bb, is NOT the person who was arrested in this morning's action.