The wife of former Police Directorate Director Veselin Veljović, Tamara Veljović, and police officer Veselin Bošković have been suspended for serious breach of official duty, the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced.
According to Vijesti, Bošković is close to the criminal Skalja clan.
He is allegedly in close relations with the now deceased Jovan Vukotić, once the absolute leader of that Kotor clan.
"The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Police Directorate continue to resolutely implement control mechanisms in the ministry, with the aim of achieving full integrity of the body as a whole. Continuing continuous activities to achieve full public trust, but also the complete decriminalization of the police apparatus, the Minister of Internal Affairs, Danilo Šaranović, with the opinion of the Director of the Police Directorate, Lazar Šćepanović, suspended two more police officers. Due to the existence of security obstacles to further work in the sense of Article 162 of the Law on Internal Affairs, the Minister issued decisions on the suspension of police officers Tamara Veljović and Veselin Bošković, due to serious breach of official duty, in the sense of Article 173 paragraph 1 item 28 of the Law," the statement reads.
Tamara Veljović was once assigned to the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit, and several sources from the Police Directorate immediately after the 2020 parliamentary elections said that she first appeared at work on August 31, and that for years they did not even know that she was their colleague.
Veljović was arrested at the end of July 2023 in an operation by the Special Police Department.
He was then handcuffed on the orders of the Special State Prosecutor's Office, due to suspicion that he was part of Aleksandar Mrkić's organized crime group.
Meanwhile, he has been charged with creating a criminal organization and abuse of official position.
He is responsible for these criminal acts before the Podgorica Higher Court, which recently decided to merge the case involving Veljović with the indictment filed against the former chief of the Bar criminal police, Ilija Vasović.
The trial will start over due to a change in the composition of the trial panel.
According to the allegations in that indictment, Aleksandar Lj. Mrkić, Veselin R. Veljović, Nikola Lj. Mrkić, Mujo Nikočević, Arsenije Kalezić, Stefan D. Bubanja, Nikola D. Bubanja, Željko M. Bulatović from Kolašin, Dušica G. Bulatovič. Predrag D. Veljić, Borislav R. Lečić, Nemanja N. Anđelković, Goran M. Gluščević, Nikola M. Bačilović and Sadik A. Elnagar, in 2018, in Montenegro, the defendant Mrkić Aleksandar, organized a criminal organization, whose members included the defendants Veljović Veselin, Mrkić Nikola, Nikočević Mujo, Kalezić Arsenije, Bubanja Stefan, Bubanja Nikola, Bulatović Željko, Bulatović Dušica, Veljić Predrag, Lečić Borislav, Anđelković Nemanja, Gluščević Goran, Bačilović Nikola, Sadig Elnagar and other unidentified persons, which organization aimed to commit an unspecified number of criminal offenses of smuggling and money laundering, for the purpose of acquiring illegal profit and power. By which the defendant Mrkić Aleksandar committed the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization under Article 401a, paragraph 1, in conjunction with paragraph 6 of the Criminal Code of Montenegro, and the defendants Veljović Veselin, Nikočević Mujo, Mrkić Nikola, Kalezić Arsenije, Bubanja Stefan, Bubanja Nikola, Bulatović Željko, Bulatović Dušica, Veljić Predrag, Lečić Borislav, Anđelković Nemanja, Gluščević Goran, Bačilović Nikola and Sadig Elnagar committed the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization under Article 401a, paragraph 2, in conjunction with paragraph 1, 16 of the Criminal Code of Montenegro.
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