Shortly after he was secretly returned to the public police, Dusko Golubovic is with Sander Stanaj from Tuzi, according to the claims of the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT), formed a criminal clan that smuggled cigarettes and laundered millions of euros.
Golubović was rehired by the Police Directorate on August 1, 2019, four years after he left the secret service under pressure. He was assigned to the newly formed Sector for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption, which was headed by his longtime friend and colleague from the National Security Agency (ANB). Zoran Lazovic.
The following year, special prosecutors allege, Golubović was removing truckloads of smuggled cigarettes from the Free Customs Zone in the Port of Bar on behalf of his clan.
According to the order to conduct the investigation signed by the special prosecutor Tanja Čolan DereticIn 2020, he and Stanaj organized a criminal group that operated in Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, and other countries in Europe and Asia.
According to the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT), this criminal group smuggled at least 23.580 packages of smuggled cigarettes, obtained illegal profits for themselves, and caused damage to Montenegro of at least 18.260.352 euros.
In addition to cigarette smuggling, they are charged with money laundering, but also with having influence over the executive branch and other important social factors, the Police Administration and the Customs Administration.
SDT claims that members of this criminal organization have become defendants since its establishment and during its operation. Nuo Stop, Abedin Pepić, Andrija Petanovic, Vukota Vujošević, Đoko Lješković, Mileta Simanić, Adnan Suković, Ivan Turčinović, Predrag Madžgalj, Veton Berishaj, Procopius Perić, Dejan Milic, Radoje Dakić, now deceased DV and other currently unidentified persons.
The special prosecutor also concludes from correspondence from the once protected Sky application that the multi-member criminal organization could not have operated without Golubović or Sander Stanaj.
Decrypted communications between members of that clan indicate that they played key roles in that illegal business, with a Tuzanin purchasing cigarettes and delivering them to the port of Bar, and a high-ranking police official illegally exporting them from the Free Zone.
Together they planned smuggling routes
Together they planned smuggling routes, from the time and method of transportation, to the people who would be involved in the smuggling.
"Which points to the conclusion that both defendants are at the same hierarchical level in the criminal organization, in such a way that they jointly plan the commission of the criminal offenses for which it was organized, and then the defendant Stanaj is the one who further takes actions to execute such a plan, giving orders and instructions to other members of the organization, or transmitting such orders and instructions by the defendant Golubović, and these orders and instructions are further executed hierarchically within the criminal organization, to the direct executors of the tasks," the special prosecutor states.
Golubović is suspected of having devised a criminal plan with Sander Stanaj, and then organizing the transfer of tobacco products, which were purchased for members of the criminal organization, cleared through customs and stored in the Free Customs Zone of the Port of Bar, across the customs line, while avoiding customs supervision measures, to the customs territory of Montenegro.
After that, members of their crime team took them over and drove them in trucks to warehouses in Podgorica and Tuzi.
Sander Stanaj's task was to procure cigarettes from abroad, either alone or with the help of other members of the criminal organization, and organize their delivery to Montenegro, as well as to store and guard them in warehouses in the port of Bar.
After Golubović smuggled the cigarettes across the customs line, he organized the collection and transportation of tobacco products from Bar to the warehouse, determined the price, method and terms of payment, and distributed and sold them through other members.
Golubović was handcuffed by officers of the Special Police Department (SPO) on May 9, and Sander Stanaj is on the run and the police are looking for him.
On suspicion that they were part of their criminal group, SPO officers arrested at the beginning of last week, on the orders of the SDT, the director of the company "Plus" Prokopije Perić, Milić, Dakić, Simanić, Suković, Turčinović and the owner of the company "MP ŠPED TRANS", Madžgalj.
After being questioned by the investigating judge of the Higher Court in Podgorica, Madžgalj, Milić, Dakić and Turčinović were released to house arrest, and the judge sent Perić, Simanić and Suković to the pre-trial detention center.
In addition to Sander Stanaj, his brother Nuo Stanaj, Petanović, Pepić, Vujošević, Berišaj and Lješković are also on the run...
"It's better if we have a red line before the election"
Members of the criminal organization addressed Golubović as "boss" in their communications with each other, the special prosecutor concluded after analyzing the Sky messages.
"Pay off that MAK with Isko, by the time he gets here, our boss will have devised a scheme to get it for us," was one of the messages that the fugitive Pepić sent to Sander Stanaj.
From this and hundreds of others, the special prosecutor concludes that Sander Stanaj and Golubović had an equal position in the criminal organization.
"From the aforementioned communication via the Sky ECC application between the defendants Pepić and Sander Stanaj, it is obvious that the organizers of the criminal organization assigned certain roles and tasks to themselves, namely the defendant Golubović to organize that cigarettes purchased on behalf of the criminal organization and stored in the Free Customs Zone of the Port of Bar be transferred to the customs territory of Montenegro while avoiding customs supervision measures," concludes the prosecutor.
The order to conduct the investigation highlighted dozens of messages that support this:
"'How happy the boss would be if he took out that amount now' (and it was written about 1.700 packets of 'chantal')... 'When the boss takes out the Cosmopolitan, if he has a truck, let him take half at once'...'Look, tell the boss to take out one of the regins for us as soon as possible'... 'Talk to our boss to get us one of the regins as soon as possible'... 'And see to it with the boss that he takes out that regin for us by Saturday', 'When you see him, let him get it out for us' all three as soon as possible', 'And as soon as we get rid of that, let the boss get rid of the daughter and the third one'... 'I think we will need the cosmopl from the boss... If he confirms that the boss will get it for us today..', 'Tell the boss during the day to bring us the Cosmopolitan he has there', 'Well see to it with the boss to provide us with 100 cartons of cosmopl today or tomorrow', 'When will the boss take out the one we have down there', 'Did you tell the boss that take that part out for us first elections', 'Check with the boss about that order to get it out for us', 'Check to get that order out for us before the elections, it's better if it's with us'", are just some of Pepić's messages that the special prosecutor singled out.
In the files, she also cited messages that, as she claims, were exchanged between Golubović and Sander Stanaj, from which she concludes that untaxed cigarettes were exported from the Free Zone, then taken over and further transported by trucks.
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