In an operation by the Special Police Department (SPO), Velimir Milačić, the owner of the agricultural pharmacy "Agrarija", whose headquarters are located in the Podgorica settlement of Dahna, was arrested.
Milačić is charged with the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization and smuggling.
The company "Agrarija" has been operating since 2015, and the chain has a large number of agricultural pharmacies across the country.
The revenues of the company "Agrarija" have doubled in the past three years, so the total revenue in 2021 was 1.560.468 euros, while the 2023 business year ended with 3.128.566 euros.
Rožajac's Mujo Mujević, who has been mentioned in intelligence and police documents for more than a decade and a half as one of the key cigarette smugglers in the north of the country, was arrested today by order of the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT), on suspicion of committing the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization and smuggling.
SPO officers also arrested Žarko Bulatović, the owner of the company "Bat Bojana".
Bulatović's company "BatBojana" has been providing trucking services for years, and in recent years they have expanded their business into construction.
In addition to Milačić, Bulatović and Mujević, Slobodan Đurica from Podgorica was also arrested by order of the SDT.
A large number of members of the Special Police Department (SPO) are at Mujević's house at the entrance to Rožaje, where a search is underway.
Mujević, it is believed, was for years the most important link on the cigarette smuggling route from Podgorica to Rožaje and further to other parts of Serbia and Kosovo.
In addition to Rožaje, the SPO, acting on the orders of the SDT, arrested several other people in Podgorica, on suspicion that they, through their company, provided logistics and transport for cigarette smuggling on this route to Rožaje.
The name of the arrested Mujo Mujević in the context of cigarette smuggling was mentioned back in 2013 when fellow citizen Maharem Fejzić stated that Mujević was allegedly the main organizer of cigarette smuggling in Rožaje, and that at that time he had assets worth millions that he earned from cross-border smuggling.
"He manages dozens of smugglers who work on his behalf and does nothing else besides organizing smuggling," Fejzić claimed at the time, also naming a former National Security Agency (ANB) officer who allegedly provided him with protection.
Because of these claims, Fejzić received threats, and was later sentenced to pay 14.000 euros for failing to prove the claims.
The arrested Mujo Mujević was also deprived of his liberty in 2010 after he was caught smuggling cigarettes worth 28.500 euros.
He was then sentenced to four months in prison.
The SDT announced that the SPO is carrying out urgent evidentiary actions against several individuals in Podgorica and Rožaje, due to the existence of grounds for suspicion that they committed the criminal offenses of creating a criminal organization and smuggling, and is taking measures and actions to deprive them of their liberty.
"The Special State Prosecutor's Office will, after completing the evidentiary actions being undertaken and the interrogation of persons deprived of their liberty as suspects, inform the public about their results and the decision on the further course of the proceedings," the statement reads.
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