In April 2020, leaders of the Kavača criminal clan and police officers accused of working for them monitored the then police chief Igor Popović on suspicion that he was in cahoots with the now-deceased leader of the opposing Škaljara clan, Jovan Vukotić.
From the many messages exchanged via the once protected Sky application, it emerges that they therefore agreed with the leaders of the then Sector for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption to plant information on Popović, in order to check whether he would pass it on to Vukotić.
From these correspondences it is clear that Popović was followed in Kotor, but at the time when he was the head of the Cetinje Security Department.
Prior to this engagement, he served as the Chief of the Kotor Police.
Several police officers and residents of Kavča were involved in the operation to monitor Popović, after they were informed that he was coming to Kotor from the capital to "train", and that he always ran past the house of the skalarca and, allegedly, threw a note into the fence.
On April 11, 2020, the alleged leader of the organized crime group, the Kvac clan, Radoje Zvicer, informed the police officer who, according to the claims of special prosecutors, had subordinated the service to the mafia, Ljubo Milović, about this.
Zvicer, who at that time was writing hidden behind the Skajnik Carlos, forwarded to Milović the correspondence with the person writing to him from the Samson account, who informed him about Popović.
"Bro, you know that mayor Igor Popović, he's messing around with these people, I think... He parks in front of me on Stasije every morning as if he's running and goes to the Vukotić building. It seems he's seen with someone in some passage there. And he comes back like a jogger," this person writes to Zvicer.
The Kotor resident checks which passage his interlocutor is talking about, and also whether Popović is going to his fellow citizen MJ, but his associate is persistent:
"He gets in the car on business and goes home. From the lower road, there's a passage 15 meters before Babylon, to their building. He's probably seeing someone."
"He's definitely theirs," Zvicer concludes and forwards the correspondence to Milović.
Zvicer and Milovic argue about this, and the Kotor resident writes:
"You said it right, you sneer. With CT he should come for a 10-minute run" and sends a photo of the company car and Popović jogging.
"Popović under their building, he's all f**ked up. I told Zoran that day, we'll get him out better, but it seems they have a strong lobby, not to let Veljović replace him. When they killed Muha, there was no blockade. Zoran was going crazy, but you see, he doesn't have the strength," Milović writes.
Veselin Veljović was the director of the Montenegrin police at the time.
Muha, or Cetinje resident Pero Muhadinović, was murdered on February 27, 2020, in the capital. At the time, Popović was the chief of the Cetinje police.
Zvicer notes that it is clear what that police officer did in Kotor, and writes "imagine his training"...
"I broke it all, that's why I bothered them, they wanted to crush me and expel the Russians, because they didn't have me under control... That complex guy is poison, look at his attitude when he runs, that pikinezer doesn't like asphalt, they call him a heel, he wears a sole on every shoe to make him taller."
Zvicer reports that the police officer talked on the phone for half an hour after he got out of the vehicle, and Milović asked him to film him from the sea and make a video.
That day, several members of the so-called police drug cartel agreed to "land" on Popović, and three days later, a police officer from the Kotor Security Department, Marko Novaković, informed Milović that their colleague had gone to training again.
"Here's Popović warming up to run on St. Stasije. Now he's heading towards the building... He's parked at Ruta's place and stretching, on St. Stasije," the policeman at the time sent to his colleague from the service and clan.
It appears from the communication that Milović shared this with others, including Chief Zvicer.
A few days later, police officers from the then SBPOKK, led by Zoran Lazović, talk about a plan to plant information on Popović.
On April 22, the arrested Ivan Stamatović, known as Batica, asked his godfather Milović if he was aware of this plan.
"Dude, today they told us to go to HN on Saturday. I don't know what exactly yet. And are you aware that Djokovic is going to Žil's place about Popović with CT. Junior said something about the information he provided and showed the pictures, but Ivan Đ is also involved in it. Today, Junior tells Ivan to go to Žil's place in the morning, about Popović. Are you aware that they want to give him information, false, so we can see if he will sell it, then we can arrest him if he reports it, Popović. That's what Junior is saying, although he is always ambitious," Stamatović sends Milović that day.
This one asks for an explanation, so Stamatović explains: "They're going to give him false information, and there will be monitoring, and if he goes for a run, we'll take a note, if that's it, then we'll arrest him. That's what he said. The chief."
They use the nickname Junior to refer to the arrested police officer Petar Lazović, who also used the nickname on Sky.
From the communications it emerges that Đoković is their then colleague from SBPOK, Ivan Đoković, and Žile at the time was the head of the department for serious crimes within that sector, Milorad Žižić.
Milović explains that this is impossible, because "Popović is not naive," so he says that they can only film him from the sea and that a friend will finish it for them.
"How does he think he's being filmed on Donji Put, where there aren't five living souls. You know when someone passes by, until the season starts. This isn't Podgorica. Only a fisherman can do that, from a boat. That's where the scumbags hang out, drug addicts from Sveti Stasi, the bar next door is run by the scumbags. As soon as someone stops by, they see it immediately," Milović wrote.
Stamatović replies: "Then they're imagining something. That's what I heard from them, what they'll do and how it'll be, I don't know, dude," after which Milović sends a message that he'll send Junior a message not to mess around.
"Until I see if I can record it"...
Most of the police officers who followed Popović for months were caught by indictments from the Special State Prosecutor's Office.
This criminal group, gathered around a fugitive with a police badge named Ljubo Milović, is accused by special prosecutors of smuggling cocaine from South America to Europe for years, and investigators have found evidence that they smuggled several tons of the expensive white powder.
Drugs went to Europe from the port of Bar, but also via Antwerp, Germany and Turkey.
Evidence of this was provided to Montenegrin investigators by Europol, with complete transcripts of conversations conducted through the encrypted Sky ECC application.
Analyzing that evidence, the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) found that Milović involved several colleagues - active and former police officers, mostly his godfathers and friends - in that criminal business.
They all had specific roles in the clan. Allegedly, some were tasked with using their official authority to check whether their honest colleagues were on their trail, and to raise the alarm if there was danger...
Others, however, were tasked with networking those they needed to put dirty money into legal channels.
The SDT charges this group with creating a criminal organization, money laundering, unauthorized production, possession and trafficking of narcotics, and unauthorized possession of weapons and explosives.
Former Assistant Director of the Police Administration, Dejan Knežević, who is included in the indictment, is charged with disclosing classified information and abuse of official position.
Maybe he adds some letters...
In one of the correspondences, the people of Kavčani wrote that police officer Igor Popović, while running past Vukotić's house in Kotor, threw something into their yard.
"Brother, he threw something from his pants into the meadow, right under the building, into the bushes," a certain Samson writes on April 11, 2020 to the head of the Kavač clan.
Zvicer then asked him if they could have taken what Popović allegedly threw, and he got an answer.
"The fence from Donji Put, he threw it about 15 meters in, it's no bigger than a can, probably some information."
On the same day, Zvicer asks his interlocutor if Popović had somewhere else to go, or if he had to go to Vukotić's building.
"Well, I was watching, come back right away, don't stay long, maybe add some letters or information. Come back in 10 minutes and go home. With the official PG Astra," the interlocutor sends him.
We'll find him a new job.
Months after they had been following Igor Popović and discussing him, Ljubo Milović informed the head of the Kavač clan that he would find a new job for his colleague.
"According to the law, everyone must find a place, we will appoint him as the head to protect facilities of special importance in the state, such as the Parliament, the Government, embassies," he writes to Zvicer on February 26, 2021.
On the first working day after that, March 1, Popović was not dismissed, but he was the then assistant director of the Police Directorate, in whose sector members of the so-called police drug cartel Zoran Lazović worked.
Popović remained in his position as chief of the Cetinje police until May 7 of that year, when he was dismissed.
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