Former secret and public police officials and the senior state prosecutor Andrijana Nastić They were arrested yesterday as part of a criminal group that allegedly hid objects and secret information and passed them on to a criminal group. Aleksandar Mijajlović, the information is unofficial from "Vijesti".
Former head of counterintelligence protection at the National Security Agency (ANB) Drago Spicanovic, former Assistant Director of the Police Directorate Milovan Pavićević and a policeman Vladan Lazović, were taken yesterday in handcuffs, first to the Special Police Department, and later to the Special State Prosecutor's Office, on whose orders an investigation was opened due to suspicion that the group was acting outside the law.
Prosecutor Nastic is the sister of the uncle of the arrested Mijajlovic, and Lazovic is his nephew. Zoran Lazović, former assistant director of the Police Directorate, detained on charges of aiding the Kavača criminal clan.
"Vijesti" sources claim that the former chief of the Nikšić police was also questioned as part of the large operation. Tihomir Goranović, former director of the Tax Administration Miomir M. Mugoša i Jaksa Backovic, who once headed the police High-Tech Crime Suppression Group.
According to this information, statements were also given before special police officers by the former president of the Board of Directors of the Pension and Disability Insurance Fund (PIO) and a former official of the Bosniak Party. Alija Kosuta, civic activist Darko Skocko Ivanovic, as well as a former Ministry of Health official Aleksandar Klimovic.
Ivanovic contacted the "Vijesti" editorial office and denied the allegations that he was being interrogated.
"Vijesti" was told that the group is suspected of committing an alleged series of criminal acts under the jurisdiction of the SDT.
"This is just the first wave of arrests that will continue," said the newspaper's source.
The newspaper was told that SPO officers searched apartments and other buildings covered by the investigation at several locations.
"Old accusations"
Mijajlović was identified as the head of a criminal organization that was involved in cigarette smuggling from 2019 to 2021.
In June of this year, the Special State Prosecutor's Office submitted an indictment against him and other defendants for international smuggling of tobacco products to the Special Department of the High Court in Podgorica.
SDT files from the beginning of the investigation state that in just about a year, he purchased and organized the transport of at least 60.000 packs of cigarettes from the United Arab Emirates.
These tobacco products, as it says, then ended up on the illegal market in Montenegro and other countries via the port of Bar.
The prosecution did not state the value of the cigarettes at the time.
For comparison, authorities previously announced that 165.612 packs of cigarettes seized in the Port of Bar Free Zone were worth around 122 million euros.
The prosecutor broke the law.
State Prosecutor 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.
Nastic also represented the 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 an arrested former police official Duška 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.
Spičanović did not have access to classified information
The arrested National Security Agency official Drago Spičanović did not have access to classified data, an official from that institution told "Vijesti".
The service, headed by Ivica Janović, citing confidentiality, did not specify which position Spičanović holds:
"Given that the personnel records of the National Security Agency (ANB), including decisions on the legal employment status of employees, are classified, we are unable to answer your questions," Janović's office said.
Asked to comment on the arrest and explain whether it had anything to do with his work at the Agency, they said:
"ANB officer Drago Spičanović does not possess a permit to access classified information. Given that the current Law on the ANB does not prescribe mechanisms in cases where an officer loses the right to possess a permit to access classified information during the course of his employment, this represented input for the proposal for a new law, which is in the parliamentary procedure, to include provisions for dealing with such situations."
Kentera: He passed all safety procedures
Former director of the National Security Agency, Savo Kentera, claims that Spičanović went through all security procedures when he was reinstated to that service during his term.
"Everything that was done when he was admitted to the National Security Agency was done in accordance with the law and procedures. He passed all security checks. If anyone does something in this country that is not in accordance with the law, they should be held accountable for it, whether their name was Savo Kentera, Drago Spičanović or whatever," Kentera told "Vijesti".
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