The five in the concrete mixer will go to the judge today?

Five arrested in major operation by Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) and Special Police Department (SPO) - Senior State Prosecutor Andrijana Nastić, former senior police officials Milovan Pavićević i Drago Spicanovic, a police officer Vladan Lazović and businessman Aleksandar Mijajlovic After being questioned by special prosecutors, they were held in police custody.

They were handcuffed on suspicion that they were part of a criminal group that allegedly hid criminal cases and secret information and passed them on to Aleksandar Mijajlović's criminal group, according to unofficial information from "Vijesti".

Two days ago, former head of counterintelligence protection at the National Security Agency (ANB) Spičanović, former assistant director of the Police Administration Pavićević, police officer Lazović, prosecutor Nastic and Mijajlović were first taken to the SPO premises in handcuffs.

The newspaper was told that SPO officers searched apartments and other buildings covered by the investigation at several locations.

According to the same information, several cars were seized from the arrested.

The prosecutor, police officers and businessman were also questioned yesterday by the Special State Prosecutor's Office, at whose order an investigation was opened due to suspicion that the group was acting illegally.

After questioning, they were taken to the Podgorica police concrete mixer.

Television Vijesti announced yesterday that the five will most likely be heard today in the Higher Court, which will make a decision on whether to order them to be detained for up to 30 days.

Prosecutor Nastić is the sister of the uncle of the arrested Mijajlović, and Lazović 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, and former Ministry of Health official Aleksandar Klimovic.

"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.

Mijajlović has been arrested before

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.