Former high-ranking police official Zoran Lazović protected one of the more influential members of the Kavak clan, Duško Roganović, from criminal prosecution, and at the same time informed his then-colleague, Roganović's father-in-law Duško Koprivica, about this.
Lazović was then the head of the Sector for Combating Crime and Corruption, a key department of the Police Directorate, while Koprivica held important positions in the security system for years.
Today, both are behind bars, and Roganović is on the run.
That Zoran Lazović personally intervened on Roganović's behalf was revealed by his son Petar Lazović in messages from the Sky app in May 2020. In these correspondences, the arrested police officer boasted to his criminal associates about his father's "services" to the underworld.
At that time, he wrote under the pseudonym Hermano ex Junior, through which he also corresponded with the then police officer Ljubo Milović.
Petar Lazović was also arrested and faces serious charges, and Milović has been on the run for almost three years.
In early May 2020, Petar Lazović told Milović who his father was on good terms with, mentioning the fathers of members of the criminal gang, and stating how much Zoran Lazović helped them. He indicates his father with the initial “Z.”
In one message, he emphasizes that his father helped both a certain "M" and his late father, and from the context it is clear that he is talking about a member of the Kavač clan, arrested for the most serious crimes.
During a conversation about mafia affairs, the younger Lazović boasted that his father also helped the then president of the country, Milo Đukanović, whom he addresses as Lomi, and then assured Milović that he had explained to his father that the boss of the coffee shops, Radoje Zvicer, whom he calls Komita, did not do business with a certain Gil.
Previously, he asked Milović if he or Zvicer had any contact with Gil S.
In the same correspondence, while boasting that he had clarified the relations within the Kavač clan with his father, Petar Lazović also reveals a potential problem for Duško Roganović - that the witness had mentioned him. In that message, he directly connects that Novalja native, his late father Niko Roganović and the person he designates with the initial "A", with organized crime figures from the smuggling of the 1990s.
He claims that they were close to Vladimir Vanja Bokan, who was killed in Athens in 2000 and who was linked to cigarette smuggling in the XNUMXs.
"And I told Z that Komita has nothing to do with Gil, the unfortunate one, because Gil is Duško's spy and I said he's not crazy to cooperate with him, Gil is in League D Division 4. That's it... and Z helped Lomi not because of A., Niko and Duka and they were all with Vanja Bokan and then Vanja got out of control a little and went the way he went, Z didn't appreciate them, because they did some stupid things, even Baka distanced himself from them... Duško R has a problem because he has a protected witness whom we arrested because of Šćepan, because he tipped Šćepan in 2018 and then the little guy opened up, spilled the late Vlad and Duško and Zurovac and Igor Bošnjak, and also Mrva and Kič and them... we arrested Nana because of that, he got the motorbikes for the murder. You know how it goes, Z even brought Duško Koprivica to his place and had already saved him a bit, I know Duško cried," wrote Petar Lazović on May 4, 2020 to Milović.
He then details what the protected witness said about the roles of the Skalja men who are now responsible for the murder of Ščepan Roganović, but not what he accused the Roganovićs, Nemanja Zurovac and Bošnjak of.
Šćepan Roganović was murdered on February 13, 2020, and the leaders and members of the Škalja clan - Igor Vukotić, Mili Bajramović, Krsto Vujić, Marko Radović, Igor Glavaš, Miloš Komar, Slavko Radulović, Miloš Gvozdenović and Dino Ibrahimović - are responsible for this crime.
The prosecution has a protected witness in that case.
Often about helping Duško
The correspondence with Milović is not the only one in which Lazović mentions how they saved Roganović, and Novljanin himself wrote about this at the end of 2020.
He then boasted to a member of his criminal team that the then Assistant Director of the Police Administration, Zoran Lazović, had managed to get him removed from the arrest list.
He also wrote to the same interlocutor about how he was being taken for questioning - that the then informal leader of the police Special Operational Support Team, Petar Lazović, spoke to him as if they were comrades and that he told him in confidence that his father, through Milivoje Katnić, had arranged for him not to be prosecuted.
This is also part of the case file that the Special State Prosecutor's Office formed against the former head of the Sector for the Fight against Organized Crime and Corruption (SBPOKK) and former chief special prosecutor, Zoran Lazović and Milivoj Katnić, arrested on April 14, 2024.
Less than twenty days before Roganović boasted about being removed from the arrest list, the younger Lazović informed Radoje Zvicer, via the once-protected Sky application, that they had arranged not to arrest Roganović.
"Brother, let me tell you, I was just in agreement about the activities for the morning in HN. What was planned earlier is being implemented in the morning, six people are being arrested, around Roganović. Duško is not being touched as I told you, but people around him are," he wrote to Zvicer on December 3, 2020.
Lazović Junior was deprived of his liberty on July 18, 2022, and on that day Milović evaded arrest.
The two of them and Zvicer are included in the indictments of the Special State Prosecutor's Office, which charges them with being part of the so-called police drug cartel.
This criminal group, gathered around the fugitive with a police badge, 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 via the encrypted Sky 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.
Zvicer was added to the list of most wanted fugitives a few months ago. Proceedings are being conducted against him in several countries.
They postponed the murder to honor Z.
Writing about Zvicer almost daily and offering help for him and his family through Milović, arrested police officer Petar Lazović said in early May 2020 that he was doing this "because he is a Montenegrin."
He then explains that he has such a position "because he is a friend of friends."
“And thirdly, he showed that he is a friend”
In a conversation on May 3, 2020, he informs Milović that he told his father that their criminal team had given up on the murder that night, in order to respect him.
"You know, I'm helping myself and I'll do everything I can and convince Z with everything I can. I told him last night that someone should have been killed, but in order for them to respect him, because it was piling up, that they postponed it, that you're done with it, told them," he sends.
He also says that he will help them.
"I know it has to be done, even if he's Z, and that's deserved. And I'll help them there. You see what we can do, I'll do it all, because I hate them, they'd drown us all if they could," he says that day, after which he sends Milović information about the Skaljarci, stating that his colleague from the police's Special Operational Support Team received it.
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