In one of the largest operations by the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) and the Special Police Department (SPO), several former senior police officials, businessman Aleksandar Mijajlović and Senior State Prosecutor Andrijana Nastic, were arrested this morning.
According to "Vijesti", the former head of the Podgorica Security Center Milovan Pavicevic, police officer Vladan Lazovic, former assistant director of the Police Administration, and former head of counterintelligence protection at the National Security Agency Drago Spicanovic were arrested.
Arrest of Andrijana Nastic
Arrest of Drago Spičanović
Former Director of the Tax Administration Miomir M. Mugoša also gave a statement during an information interview at the SPO in connection with this case. He entered the SPO building after 14 p.m. and left after half an hour.
Arrest of Milovan Pavićević
As part of the large operation, former Nikšić police chief Tihomir Goranović and Aleksandar Klimović were also questioned.
The arrest of Vladan Lazović
The coordinator of the Department for Operational Support to Units of the Police Directorate and the former head of the High-Tech Crime Group of the Police Directorate, Jakša Backović, was also detained and left the headquarters of that police department after giving a statement to the SPO.
Video: Dejan Jovović, Television Vijesti
The SDT suspects the arrested of creating a criminal organization.
SPO officers with a search warrant are currently searching the apartment of former UP official Milovan Pavićević.
He is charged with the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization and abuse of official position.
The investigation in this case is being led by SDT prosecutor Jovan Vukotić.
According to "Vijesti", SPO officers are searching the apartments of arrested officials and businessmen, as well as several other people involved in the investigation in this case, at several locations.
Prosecutor Nastic is the sister of uncle Aleksandar Mijajlovic.
Vladan Lazović is the nephew of Zoran Lazović, former assistant director of the Police Directorate.
Despite numerous statements by officials who spoke out after today's arrests of SDT and SPO, Vijesti has learned that this case has nothing to do with cigarette smuggling or with smuggling-related activities.
Mijajlović identified as head of criminal organization that engaged in cigarette smuggling from 2019 to 2021
In June of this year, the Special State Prosecutor's Office submitted an indictment to the Special Department of the High Court in Podgorica against businessman Aleksandar Aco Mijajlović, who was named in the case as the head of a criminal organization that was involved in cigarette smuggling from 2019 to 2021.
An indictment was filed against Mijajlović, Dejan Jokić, Zoran Žuti Đukanović, Golub Vojinović, Dragan Backović, Milenko Mićo Rabrenović, Radoje Rabrenović and Mirko Mijušković.
According to the SDT indictment, Mijajlović is accused of forming a criminal organization in Montenegro with an unknown person, between 2019 and 2021, whose members included the other defendants and other, currently unknown persons, with the aim of smuggling untaxed cigarettes from the Port of Bar Free Zone.
A financial investigation was also launched against Mijajlović and others in that case for the purpose of permanently confiscating property acquired through criminal activity.
ASK determined this summer that Nastić violated the Law
State Prosecutor Andrijana Nastić has worked at the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica since 2010, and then, by decision of the Prosecutorial Council, in June 2022, she was promoted to the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica.
After moving to the Higher State Prosecutor's Office, Nastic, as the prosecutor on duty, prosecuted the cases of two major massacres in Cetinje in August 2022 and January 2025.
Nastić also filed an indictment against Nemanja Koprivica, a police officer from Nikšić, who is suspected of attempting to murder three people in Nikšić in the summer of 2022.
Koprivica is the son of arrested former police official Duško Koprivica.
The Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (ASK) found this summer that prosecutor Nastić violated the Law on the Prevention of Corruption by failing to declare multiple properties in annual and special property reports. Nastić stated during the proceedings that she had no intention of concealing information about the property and that all apartments and garages were declared through regular annual reports, as well as that the information was available to the Agency through public registers. She also stated that the 96-square-meter apartment was purchased with funds obtained from the sale of previous properties, and that she did not declare the two garages because she considered them part of the purchase contract for the apartment. She added that she declared these garages in the report for 2024.
Nastić has an apartment in the Master Kvart building in Podgorica.
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