The Special State Prosecutor's Office has submitted an indictment against the defendant Nikola Raičević to the Special Department of the High Court in Podgorica for the criminal offenses of creating a criminal organization and smuggling and two criminal offenses of unlawful influence through aiding and abetting.
The prosecutor's office explained that the subject of the indictment is the activities of a criminal organization organized in 2019 by the accused Miloš Medenica.
They also state that his mother Vesna Medenica, her former bodyguard Darko Lalović, police officer Milorad Medenica, judge Milica Vlahović Milosavljević, as well as Vasilije Petrović, Bojan and Marko Popović, Marko Vučinić, Luka Bakoč, Petar Milutinović, Customs Administration employee Ivana Kovačević, Radomir Raičević, Marjan Bevenja, Stevo Karanikić, Goran Jovanović and "Kopad Company" from Nikšić also became members of this criminal organization...
Raičević was arrested six months ago. He was handcuffed on July 24, 2024, and had previously been wanted nationally and internationally for more than two years.
The SDT explains that the subject of the indictment is also the actions of the defendant Raičević as a member of a criminal organization: "And as part of its criminal plan, by which he recruited the defendant PM, to create false documents and find officials of the Customs Administration who would accept such false documents in the performance of their duties as genuine, all in order to use them to smuggle untaxed cigarettes from the Free Customs Zone of the Port of Bar to the customs territory of Montenegro, by transferring them across the customs line, while avoiding customs supervision measures."
The SDT points out that the subject of the indictment and the actions of the defendant Raičević are within the criminal plan of a criminal organization, which, at the order of its accused organizer, the son of the accused Vesna Medenica, the then President of the Supreme Court of Montenegro, communicated with the defendants Marko and Bojan Popović and Vasilij Petrović, with the aim of reaching a corrupt agreement for the defendant to mediate in the civil cases and proceedings that were ongoing before the Montenegrin courts, to be concluded in favor of the defendants: "Regardless of the factual situation, and in return, the defendants MP and BP, or the defendant VP, whose families are the owners of the defendant legal entities, give a bribe in the form of three apartments in Budva, with parking spaces and money of €9.600, or in the form of money of €150.000, which the defendant NR took over from the defendant VP, on behalf of the organizer of the criminal organization and his mother, as its member."
Prosecutors proposed that Raičević's detention be extended and that, after the indictment is confirmed, the criminal proceedings be merged with the criminal proceedings ongoing before the High Court in Podgorica against the other defendants, under the confirmed indictment of the Special State Prosecutor's Office from October 2022, in order to conduct a single proceeding and issue a single verdict.
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