With the closing arguments of the prosecutor and defense attorney, the trial of the defendant Jugoslav Raičević, an employee of the Police Administration, who was charged with committing the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization and the extended criminal offense of abuse of official position, concluded today.
The verdict will be announced on July 3rd at the Higher Court in Podgorica.
Special Prosecutor Nataša Bošković said that during the court proceedings, all the evidence presented confirmed that police inspector Jugoslav Raičević committed criminal acts. In a detailed analysis, the prosecutor stated that intercepted telephone communications concluded that the defendant Raičević was a user of a protected PIN account. She proposed that the court find him guilty and punish him according to the law.
The defense believes completely differently, so attorney Miloš Vuksanović requested an acquittal for his client. He added that "there is no more insane idea than the one that Raičević is charged with in the indictment." He then referred to the closing argument of special prosecutor Bošković in his closing argument. He emphasized that if the prosecutor had not been so naive, she would have simply repeated "he had encrypted communication" several times in order to impress the trial panel without substantiating her claims with valid evidence, attorney Vuksanović said.
"I read in the indictment of the Serbian prosecution that Darko Šarić's mother is from Vujanović, so I'm surprised that they haven't linked you to this criminal organization," said Vuksanović, addressing the president of the special chamber, Judge Nenad Vujanović.
"You have more connections with the Šarićs than the accused Raičević here," emphasized lawyer Vuksanović.
He particularly emphasized that there is no evidence in the indictment that would confirm that Raičević worked for the criminal group of the Pljevlja drug lord.
"None of the messages that Raičević allegedly sent to Milan Vučinić via the Sky application have any connection with the criminal organization my client is accused of being a member of," said lawyer Vuksanović, adding that Vučinić was acquitted in Serbia of charges of being a member of Šarić's criminal group.
In his closing argument, the defendant Raičević emphasized that his lifestyle and financial circumstances best indicate whether he was involved in crime. He stated that he lives in a modest 60-square-meter apartment for which he is still paying off a loan. He said that he does not know the defendants mentioned in the indictment filed by the Special Prosecutor's Office in Serbia, and that he has never met them and believes that they do not know that he exists either.
The indictment presented that in early 2020, in Montenegro, the defendant Raičević became a member of a criminal organization organized by the defendant Darko Šarić on the territory of Montenegro, the Republic of Serbia and other European countries, and whose members became, in addition to, for now, unidentified persons, the accused Dejan Lazarević, Stanojković Bojan, Odović Danilo, Bošković Aleksandar, Spasojević Nikola, Stojanović Danilo, Radovanović Milutin, Mirković Duško, Andrejić Stefan, Vukić Marko, Radovanović Uroš, Vučinić Milan, Šarić Arso and Šarić Duško, and against whom indictments of the Public Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime of the Republic of Serbia from October 12, 10, criminal proceedings are being conducted before the Special Court in Belgrade for the criminal offenses of conspiracy to commit criminal offenses, aggravated murder, causing general danger in co-perpetration, causing general danger in co-perpetration in an attempt , two criminal offenses of illegal production, possession, carrying and trafficking of weapons and explosive substances, illegal production, possession, carrying and trafficking of weapons and explosive substances, extended criminal offense of abuse of official position, false reporting in complicity, and extended criminal offense of abuse of official position.
The indictment adds that the criminal organization planned to use violence and intimidation in order to implement the criminal plan and commit an unspecified number of criminal offenses of aggravated murder. The accused Raičević Jugoslav had the task of collecting information on official measures and actions taken by the Montenegrin police in the same period, both in relation to members of his own and members of the opposing criminal organization, on his own initiative and according to the orders and instructions of the organizer, which were communicated to him directly by the member of the criminal organization, the accused Vučinić Milan, on the territory of Montenegro, as an authorized police officer of the Police Administration of Montenegro, by unlawfully abusing his official position. He transmitted this information via the encrypted communication application "Sky Ecc", as a user of the account BNB5D8, to the accused Vučinić Milan, as a user of the "Sky Ecc" account A7IBNP, as well as to take other actions according to the instructions and orders of the organizer, the indictment states, among other things.
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