"I came here to try to tell the truth. In media announcements, I was presented as a high-ranking official of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which I was not," said former member of the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit Brajuško Brajušković at a session of the Inquiry Committee of the Parliament of Montenegro, attended by the majority of members.
"I think one of you should have contacted me, because the Basic State Prosecutor's Office has a CD of my harassment, when I was harassed by the now-defendant Saša Čađenović," Brajušković pointed out.
He responded to the accusations of long-time official of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Police Administration, Milan Paunović, which he made at the session of the Inquiry Committee on June 2, as well as the comments of former Prime Minister Duško Marković at the session of the Inquiry Committee on May 19.
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"Duško Marković 'knows' only who is behind me, and he doesn't know who killed Duško Jovanović, but he is crying for his nephews... Only Saint Basil of Ostrog stands behind me, even part of my family is angry about my activities," he said.
Responding to Milan Paunović's comment about the initials BB, he said that he was among the first to speak out, in an interview with Vijesti.
He pointed out that he was willing to talk about Duško Jovanović, and that he knew as much about the murders as the others - from the media.
"I've never touched anyone"
MP Jovan Vučurović commented on the statements from the prosecution - stating that there can be no statute of limitations when people were killed and beaten.
He asked Brajušković who was the organizer of the "black threes", what his role was in it, who all the members of the black threes were, did he beat anyone up...
"The Black Threes were formed by someone above him, but the main one was the then commander of the SAJ, Veselin Veljović, and his right-hand man was the commander in that unit, Miljan Perović... I never touched anyone," he said.
He pointed out that Duško Jovanović was beaten up in his entrance by Marko Kalezić and Slavko Đurović.
"I don't think they became famous at the time, because Duško knew he would be attacked. He knew from journalist Bud Simonović, who I told," said Brajušković.
He said he had never bombed any regular police operation.
He explained that the attack on Duško Jovanović was "accelerated" because that day he brought a black bag into the Parliament that was given to him by a certain Tripković.
He said that he followed Duško Jovanović in the neighborhood where he lives, and that his bosses always knew when the journalist left "Dani".
"Those were bad times, and that bad thing was caused by Veselin Veljović and some of his bosses. He asked for a journalist's fingers to be broken," he said.
"Djukanovic agrees with Veljovic, Brajuskovic blocks European path"
"When I went public in 2013, I came out in a big way, so that the media could report the texts... No one except Žarko Rakčević reacted at the time. Now there are a lot of people from that era who are talking about something, but where were they then? When they beat me up at Mareza, when they broke into my house, when my son had to leave Montenegro? I turned to Milo Đukanović at the time, and his response was this - Đukanović agrees with Veljović, Brajušković is blocking the European path," said Brajušković and showed the cover of Vijesti.
Vučurović was interested in who the people were who ordered the beatings, or whether there was any information that the team was coordinated by someone from political life.
Vučurović was interested in who the people were who ordered the beatings, or whether there was any information that the team was coordinated by someone from political life.
"I know that Veljović was in charge, I don't know who was above him. I begged him to exclude me from all of that, I don't know why he included me... Probably to humiliate me because I worked in bars for a long time as a security guard... When I went public, the SAJ was collecting a list of people who were lying, the signatures were collected by Vladan Lazović, Slavko Đurović, Milan Kalezić and they were helped by Marko Drobnjak, the head of the Danilovgrad police station, the head of the police in the city where I live. As a citizen, I don't trust him, but if the Ministry of Internal Affairs trusts him, let him be the director of the police," he said.
Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) MP Oskar Huter said that the work of the Inquiry Committee is being deliberately extended until the next elections, and that if it is in possession of any information or evidence, it will go to the police or prosecutor's office.
"Everything else is a play in which the actors are just actors... The best confirmation of this is the previous session," he said, referring to the denial of Milan Paunović's allegations.
He asked the president of the Inquiry Committee, Andrija Nikolić, to provide them with the documents that Paunović was "waved at".
Huter listed all those who denied Paunović, and then quoted the special prosecutor and spokesperson for the Special State Prosecutor's Office, Vukas Radonjić, about the absolute statute of limitations in certain cases.
"I will look back at the second half of the work of the Inquiry Committee. That second half is, in fact, best illustrated by what happened in the public service, at RTCG. There, under the baton of an illegally elected director general, we heard about 'police peacocks' and 'media swans'... That man, more powerful than all the Montenegrin courts combined, completely ignored the verdicts that challenged his legitimacy," said Huter.
He said that citizens are not naive, emphasizing that the key question is who comes before this Committee.
He asked Brajušković if he had any convictions, if he had any contacts with a certain Luka Bojović...?
Brajušković replied that he was very aggressive, but that he hoped that he would not be thrown at with a bottle, like his colleague in Zeta.
He explained that he was convicted of an unpaid electricity bill of 28 euros, that he was framed for attempted murder...
"I came to tell the truth. If you mind mentioning my name and my story, you tell me, I'll go... You are a great provocateur, don't get into a situation where you provoke me. I am not someone who came here to provoke, nor do I tolerate provocations. Not from you, not from Nikolić, not from anyone. In fact, I only expect provocations from you, Zirojević and Nikolić. I don't expect them from anyone else. And you started... So, what's the connection with my condemnation? I, as a convicted person, have been transferred from the police to ZIKS twice," said Brajušković.
Hutter replied that he was not an aggressive MP, that he would not provoke him, and that he would not throw a bottle at him, but would bring him water in his hand if he asked for it.
"You could be my father in terms of age," he said, and then repeated part of the question - whether he had visited President Milo Đukanović's advisor, Veselin Veljović, and whether that visit had anything to do with his son's employment, whether he had blackmailed anyone before going to the media with the accusations, whether he had gone to Luka Bojović...
"My obligation is to report here what the citizens have told me," said Huter.
"I have never blackmailed anyone, neither colleagues nor citizens, in order to gain material benefit... Luka Bojović's father, Vuk Bojović, is my lifelong friend. I know the entire Bojović family and I will never give them up. Knowing Vuk Bojović serves me well. Vuk was the director of the ZOO, a sculptor and I can say a folk sage. Anđelka was the dean of the Faculty of Arts. I knew Nikola Bojović. And Luka when he was young," said Brajušković.
He added that he had not seen Vuk Bojović since the funeral of his son Nikola.
"I've never been to Luka's place in my life, I've been to his father Vuk. I don't care if the ANB has that information. I was at Veljović's place a few days before going to the media, we both knew that it was our last meeting. You obviously consulted with Veljović, I didn't ask about my son... He said I was a dog handler," he said.
Brajušković said he did not blackmail anyone.
"Now various brains will come forward to destroy me in this story, but for them, it is impossible with ordinary, honest people. It is possible with these bots who spit on me from one profile, and you from another. These are sick people, people who are not allowed to be heard from their wives at home. When they step away from the keyboard and phone, they wash the dishes, sweep the floor and do housework and garden work. These are poor souls," said Brajušković.
"The then prosecutor Čađenović asked me if I had written orders for the beating. I don't. No one is crazy. But I have my word and a polygraph. Why didn't Veljović come forward, as an honorable Montenegrin, to take a polygraph," said Brajušković.
He said that he went to the prosecutor's office, but refused to speak in front of the wife of Mihailo Volkov, who is Veljović's family lawyer and who worked at the Ministry of Defense with Perović.
Speaking about his participation in the "actions" of the black threes, he said that he felt bad when Đurović sent him a message saying "it's over", and then talked about Veljović's order to beat up "Dana" journalists Dragana Bećirović and her father.
He said that Veljović then ordered Dragana Bećirović's fingers to be broken, but that he hid them with his wife and minor children.
He claims that he told Sekulić that if he wanted to stay healthy - to leave Montenegro.
Speaking about the attack on Momir Vojvodić, Brajušković said that he witnessed the attack on him, but it was by "little boys" who wanted to steal his bag, and that he later heard that he had also been beaten up, but that he did not know who.
He said that he was ordered to beat up Duško Sekulić, but that he also warned him and told him that if he wanted to stay healthy, he should leave Montenegro.
"Why doesn't someone go to the police director Lazar Šćepanović and tell him - let go of that truckload of cigars. He would fly out the window. I don't need Šćepanović for anything, I'm a pensioner, but for me he is the embodiment of honesty," said Brajušković.
Responding to a question from MP Gordan Stojović, he said that Veljović gave him orders while he was driving him.
Social Democrat (SD) MP Nikola Zirojević asked Brajušković if he had asked for money from Veljović, through Veselin Mujović...
"I have never seen this fraudster Mujović in my life... No one has ever called me to the prosecutor's office about it. I consulted with some friends, they told me I could sue him privately. I never blackmailed Veljović, on the contrary, his brother came to me and took the dog, which he never returned or paid for," said Brajušković.
He reiterated that the "black threes" were formed by Veljović, that they were coordinated by Perović, and that the main beaters were Đurović and Marko Kalezić.
He said that he hid journalist Bećirović from them in his house.
That he first tried to hide her by the bridge in Rogami, but that he was afraid that she would be thrown into the water.
"I think it's beneath any level to refer to Mujović... I don't think that's a story for serious people," he said.
"I will say it for the fourth time, everything I said today about these important findings, I am ready to repeat on a polygraph, if I fail, I know what I will do with myself. I am not Kristijan Golubović or Zmaj od Šipovo, I am not a know-it-all, but I am ready to talk. I am sorry to disappoint some who expected me to tell fairy tales, but I am not the Brothers Grimm, but Brajuško Brajušković," he said.
He said that all well-intentioned people know that he is telling the truth.
He explained that at the time when the "black threes" existed, no one trusted anyone, but that all special forces knew about their existence except for the chief of divers Mijajlović and the mountaineer Loncović.
"You are defending the indefensible," he told Zirojević.
The Prophet replied that he did not defend anyone and was not anyone's lawyer.
He then asked him why he was at Prosecutor Čađenović's.
He said that he had been to the then-primary state prosecutor, now an accused member of a criminal clan, because of publicly made accusations in August 2013.
Brajušković said that he did not know who ordered his beating, and that he was stopped by police officers ten times throughout the city.
"I knew that something bad was coming for me, but I had to visit my daughter who lives near Tološ. The one who ordered me to be beaten and the ones who ordered me to be taken away were high-ranking professionals. First, they hit me with a rod wrapped in a white sheet or some kind of cloth. If he wanted to hit me, he could have hit me. I started to jump over the fence, two or three openings in the fence were wide, my leg fell in, they then brought me back and beat me up real bad. They broke my teeth," said Brajušković.
"For me, the doors of the Basic and Higher Prosecutor's Offices are closed today, but not then. At that time, only the chosen ones could work there, and thank God there are still some now.... I repeat, I did not come to tell fairy tales, but the truth," he said.
He told how they smashed his house with "sleds", took his uniforms, money, two rifles and that they did not give him any paperwork for it, and that later, through an informant, they tried to tell him that Zoran Lazović had ordered it.
He explained that they then wanted to "trick" him into opposing "powerful people", but that they failed.
"They are used to comfort, to apartments... when that is taken away from them, they will become what they have always been and talk, and I have told my story," he said.
Brajušković: Veljović gave me 2.000 euros to take to Đurović and Kalezić for beating up Duško Jovanović
Civic Movement URA MP Filip Adžić told Brajušković that he had respect for him, because he was the only one who spoke out during the time of the former regime.
Adžić reminded that the prosecution has already made a statement regarding the beatings for which the "black threes" are responsible.
Adžić said that by mentioning the Zemun clan, Brajušković gave cause to those who are attacking Montenegro, and Brajušković replied that he had nothing to do with that clan, and that the others did not even exist when he was working.
He told Adžić that, while Adžić was minister, he had requested an audience several times, but that Adžić had not received him.
"What I told you is the harsh truth of an evil time... Those who drove BMWs and jeeps back then couldn't earn that from their salaries, because we had the same salary," said Brajušković.
Adžić told him that they did not understand each other, that he never disputed the existence of the "black threes", that he felt it himself when they saved themselves by fleeing to the Vijesti editorial office in 2015, and that his colleagues were beaten in 2017 in Cetinje.
"Don't think I disputed anything you said, I was just disputing the possibility that through this type of action we could reach any kind of judicial responsibility or guilt," Adžić said.
Brajušković told him that he was sorry that Adžić had gone through that, but that it was only a tenth of what he had gone through.
MP Milan Knežević then joked to Adžić that this is how he would fare at the congress.
Brajušković asked for the record to state that Veljović gave him 2.000 euros to take to Đurović and Kalezić for beating up Duško Jovanović.
Brajušković on the beating of Pejanović: One police officer sought asylum because of it, and another went crazy
During his presentation, Brajušković, who even before Zirojević asked to speak, told the MP that he had a hairstyle like Alan Ford, said that he was sorry for reacting impulsively to his and MP Hutter's questions.
Zirojević asked him how, when he didn't even speak, after which Brajušković told him - turn around and tell me the name of the phenomenon whose image is on the screen behind you.
When Zirojević turned around, Brajušković told him: "That's the Aurora borealis, the northern lights. You can learn something from me."
Democratic Montenegro MP Momčilo Leković asked who was above Veljović, but also whether the beating of Saša Pejanović could be the work of the "black threes".
Brajušković said he knew that one police officer sought asylum because of this, and that one went crazy.
"I told what I know, so whatever Milan Knežević or Ilija Čvorović would say, if they remember me on Security Day, they remember me," said Brajušković.
The President of the Inquiry Committee, Andrija Nikolić, told him that it seemed to him that they remembered him, and Brajušković said that they did not, except when they were about to beat him up.
He said that in 1998, when Milan Knežević stormed the Parliament, he was on the other side, adding that he received two medals - a gold and a silver one, which he sold for 50 marks from the revolt.
Veljović was my spy.
Adžić told Brajušković that he had checked and that there was no record that he had requested an appointment with him while he was Minister of the Interior.
"Someone from Dan informed the two of them (Kovačević and Đurović) when he was leaving and they had to find each other," said Brajušković, responding to questions about monitoring the editors of "Dan", for which he was responsible.
He said he did not see that Jovanović was being followed by the secret service.
"I didn't spy for him (Veljović), he was my spy, because he didn't know what was in my soul," said Brajušković.
He said that it was not Predrag Šuković who persuaded him to talk about the "black threes", but that it was Veselin Veljović and Miljan Perović who did it.
In that context, he mentioned that when Veljović gave a statement to Portal Analitika, "that Đuranović who pays back his wife's debts," he was talking about himself.
Nikolić tried to warn him not to mention those who were unable to respond, but Brajušković did not listen.
MP Milan Knežević thanked Brajušković, noting that the inquiry committee began with Brajušković saying that he thought he was going to beat him at the funeral of his policeman's brother.
"I haven't fought at the funeral yet, and if I had, I think they would have swallowed me like your snake Dragan's egg," he said.
Knežević read the minutes of Brajušković's police interrogation, when he talked about the formation of black threes.
And then, as can be seen from the official note, he said the same thing - that he received orders from Veljović and Perović, that he followed Jovanović and Sekulić, that Đurović and Kalezić were tasked with beating up Jovanović.
He also mentioned the Bećirovićs, and that he hid them at his house at the time, as well as Colonel Radovan Aleksić, and who was his responsibility.
Brajušković first publicly mentioned the "black threes" in 2013.
In August 2013, in an interview with "Vijesti", Brajušković first publicly mentioned the "black threes", accusing the then directors of the Police Administration and the Administration for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions (UIKS), Veselin Veljovil and Miljan Perović, of forming the beating squad, or rather coordinating it.
He specified that Veljović was the organizer of the "black threes" that beat up unsuitable journalists and opposition figures, and that he himself was the leader of one of the threes, and that Perović coordinated the beating squad.
Veljović and Perović denied the accusations at the time.
Brajušković told Vijesti in August 2013 that "my evil began with the creation of some so-called triples, when I refused an assignment...
"I received orders directly from Perović and Veljović. My hand did not touch anyone in any entrance in Montenegro and I am ready to repeat all this on the polygraph. On the polygraph I will also say that I did not beat up Duško Jovanović, as was written," Brajušković pointed out.
"Dan" editor Jovanović was beaten up in 2000. He was killed four years later.
Brajušković claims that his beating was ordered by Veljović, through Miljan Perović, and that this "job" was also carried out by a group of "black threes".
During a series in Vijesti in which Brajušković's claims were reported, the brother of the late Duško Jovanović, Miodrag Jovanović, showed the editorial staff a letter that the journalist received before his death from a person who introduced himself as a "special forces officer".
"The late Duško Jovanović was beaten in 2000 by members of the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit (SAJ) Slavko Đurović, Vlado Lazović and Dragan Kalezić," reads a letter that was anonymously delivered to the editor of "Dan" on an unspecified date before his death.
A month after that series, the Supreme State Prosecutor's Office (SPO) announced that there was no evidence to confirm Brajušković's allegations that he was ordered by the senior staff of the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit (SAJ) to monitor and beat journalists and opposition figures.
Among other things, Brajušković claimed in August 2013 that Perović was the man who organized the beatings "at the entrances to Montenegro"...
"... and I am ready to repeat it under polygraph. I know that defamation is a crime, but I do not slander. I am aware of the consequences of this conversation, but I am ready for it. In this game, their stake is hatred towards me, and my stake is my son, his two children and his wife... I did not come to complain about the system, I came to complain about the people who abuse their affiliation in that system and the people who are the producers of all the scandals in Montenegro. Their perfidy has no limits, their wealth is shameless, they acquired it in a very, very corrupt way," he said.
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