Dudić detained, Krivokapić under house arrest on suspicion of attempted kidnapping

After a hearing at the Kotor Basic State Prosecutor's Office, Kotor resident Dušan Dudić (72) was ordered to be detained for up to 31 hours, and his fellow citizen Ljubomir Krivokapić (33) was placed under house arrest by the state prosecutor.

The two alleged members of the Skalja crime clan are suspected of attempting to kidnap a young man in Budva yesterday. According to information from "Vijesti", the police are searching for a third accomplice.

"Vijesti" has learned that a citizen from Budva who guaranteed a rental car agency that Dudić would return the rented car also gave a statement to the police today. He told the inspectors that he did not know for what purpose they were looking for the vehicle.

Inspectors were determining last night whether the people of Kotor were trying to demand a ransom for the man they planned to kidnap, or whether there was some other motive.

Both men from Kotor who were detained yesterday were previously known to the police.

Dudić is being prosecuted before the Podgorica Higher Court, in which he is accused of being part of an organized criminal group that planned the assassination of several former police and prosecutor's office officials, as well as an attack on a judge.

After the criminal group was dismantled, he was on the run until October 2021, when he was arrested in Bar, in a house where a marijuana production laboratory was located.

According to the Special State Prosecutor's Office, he accepted the order of the organizer of the criminal group - to break the legs and arms of then-High Court judge Biljana Uskoković.

They claim that his task was also to monitor her movements through Kotor, where, according to the evidence, she was to be attacked. According to the indictment, he was to break the judge's legs and arms with a metal bar, "and then throw the object of the crime into the sea."

Inspectors were determining last night whether the people of Kotor were trying to demand a ransom...

In court, he denied the charges, claiming that he did not know any of the defendants in the case and that the charges against him were fabricated.

Prosecutors argue that the organizers of this criminal group are Baranin Stefan Đukić (31) and Emil Tuzović (31) from Podgorica, who have been in a Ukrainian prison since May 2020, on charges that they attempted to kill Radoje Zvicer, who is reputed to be one of the leaders of the Kavac criminal clan, in the country's capital.

Judge Uskoković, according to the evidence collected, was targeted by the criminal group because she acted in the case in which Đukić and his criminal group are being tried for the murder of Baranin Jovan Klisić and the wounding of Velizar Gardašević, on the first day of November 2019.

Krivokapić was sentenced to 11 months in prison three years ago for the attempted murder of a close associate of the leader of the rival Kavač clan, Miloš Radonjić, and for illegal possession of weapons.

Previously, according to a Montenegrin warrant, he was arrested in Spain at the end of August 2020, after which he was extradited to Montenegro, which wanted him for the attempted murder of Radonjić.