Police determine whether the knife was accidentally placed among Delić's belongings

The officers of the Spusk prison prevented Andrijana Mitrović Delić to her husband, a detainee Ivan Delić, he brings in a knife.

This was reported to Vijesti unofficially by the Directorate for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions (UIKS), who said that the blade was found in the belongings of the Budva resident.

That institution explained that they informed their colleagues from the Police Directorate about the case, and they informed the prosecutor's office...

The police are determining whether the knife was accidentally placed among Delić's belongings, as she allegedly told the inspectors.

The 55-year-old was extradited to Montenegro in late May from the United Arab Emirates, where he was arrested on charges of being part of a criminal group. Vasa Street i Radoja Zvicer.

Delić recently challenged the allegations of the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) before the Higher Court in Podgorica, which charges him with creating a criminal organization and multiple criminal offenses related to illegal drug trafficking.

At the hearing where his defense attorney's appeal against the temporary blocking of his property in Reževići was being decided, he said that the entire property was the result of decades of work by his late father. Dušan Delić, who worked abroad for years.

"My father was involved in construction and created and built all the real estate himself for the last 50 years, and none of it is mine. There is evidence about everything that is presented in the case files," said defendant Delić.

She then spoke in the courtroom and Andrijana Mitrovic Delic, denying claims that Ivan was on the run and explaining that he left Montenegro due to health problems and treatment abroad.

"He was not on the run, as he left the country two years ago for health reasons," she said, adding that their son also spent a year with him undergoing treatment...

She also stated that all property was registered in the cadastre, but that some of the studies were "done incorrectly."

"I think it's a mistake by the cadastre, and I think so too by the people who did those studies. Since Ivan inherited this property in 2019 and until 2023, we fell into huge debt, and the corona pandemic also affected it, so in 2023 I was forced to sell certain properties, which I did until 2024. The price I sold this property for is a realistic price, I even think they offered me less, because I was forced to. Especially since the apartments were ready for renovation, and one of them was not decorated. I think this price is absolutely adequate and not fictitious, because with that sale I resolved the large debt I had towards Hipotekarna banka in the amount of 180.000 euros," she explained.

She added that after Dušan Delić's death, they took over all of his debts.

"That's why I would like to remove the suspicion that there was any money laundering," said Andrijana Mitrović Delić.

Delić found himself on Interpol's red international wanted list after he evaded arrest in the prosecutorial-police operation "General" last August.

He was deprived of his liberty by order of the Higher Court in Podgorica, for the purpose of conducting criminal proceedings due to the existence of reasonable suspicion that he committed the criminal offenses of creating a criminal organization and two criminal offenses of drug trafficking, which are suspected to have been committed on a transnational level.

Operational data "calls" him a murderer

Minister of Internal Affairs (MUP) Danilo Šaranović said that Ivan Delić killed Goran Žugić, former security advisor to then-President Milo Đukanović.

He referred to police operational data while speaking before members of the state parliament.

"Information number 1, filed in the public security service 25 years ago. According to unverified information, Goran Žugić made direct contact with Naser Orić in Bratunac and met with his cousin Milovan Žugić. Contact with Orić was made through the collaboration group. Naser Orić told us not to bother too much because we have a man in the Ministry of Internal Affairs who knows everything and who is an accomplice in all of this. Operational information has been confirmed from multiple sources," said Šaranović.

He added that Branislav Bran Mićunović's former bodyguard and driver said that Delić carried out the liquidation on the orders of the now deceased secret service official Beli Raspopović and Bran Mićunović...

"Because of Žugić's knowledge of the criminal activities of this group, especially regarding cigarette and drug smuggling. We are aware that this person told Mićunović about this. During the conversation with this person, he insisted on talking to the President of the Republic, unequivocally claiming that Raspopović and Mićunović were behind the murders of Žugić, which he directly links to the murders in Montenegro and Serbia - Pavićević, Vujičić, Labović, Nedović...", said the top police officer.

He then emphasized that Delić was first interested in the Serbian Ministry of Interior during the liquidation of General Radomir Stojčić.

As he added, the source accused Delić of the murder of inspector Dragan Simić, but also of the murder of JAT director Živorad Petrović.

"The previous information explained the operational data obtained from Blagota Baja Sekulić, who was friends with Žugić. Namely, Baja Sekulić stated that he was in danger and, if he were killed, that he was killed by Beli Raspopović, head of the Seventh Directorate of the ANB," he said.

He also said that "one of the leaders of the tobacco mafia in Montenegro, Srećko Kestner," told Sekulović to stop collecting information about the murder of Goran Žugić, because the time will come when everything will be known.

"The checks of telephone conversations for the critical time - 15 minutes before and after the murder of the security advisor to the President of the Republic - have not been fully implemented, but the volumes of communications between Grbovć Sava and Brano Mićunović with Luka Bulatović, a member of the State Security Service, are particularly interesting in terms of time," Šaranović pointed out, adding that "no one has any doubt that all those murders are under the seal of the state."