The Special State Prosecution Office (SDT) charges a group gathered around an American prisoner Miloš Radonjić (35) that he was responsible for smuggling 560 kilograms of cocaine.
In that investigation, at the order of special prosecutors, officers of the Special Police Department searched several facilities in Bar, Tivat and Kotor yesterday.
According to "Vijesti", in addition to Radonjić, the investigation also includes Škaljarac Krsto Vujić (47) and Radisav Mićo Radović, who is said to be a member of a Balkan drug cartel.
One of the sources said that the investigation included nine suspects, seven of whom were previously in prisons in Montenegro, countries in the region, and the United States.
"By order of the Special State Prosecutor's Office, the Special Police Department is carrying out urgent evidentiary actions against several persons in Bar, Tivat and Kotor, due to the existence of grounds for suspicion that they committed the criminal offenses of creating a criminal organization and unauthorized production, possession and distribution of narcotic drugs, and is taking measures and actions to deprive them of their liberty. The Special State Prosecutor's Office will, after completing the evidentiary actions that are being taken and questioning the persons deprived of their liberty as suspects, inform the public about their results and the decision on the further course of the procedure," the SDT announced yesterday.
According to information provided by "Vijesti", he was deprived of his liberty yesterday and Ivan Krsmanović, and the house of a certain Miloš Jovanović..
Vujic has been on the run for years.
Radonjić was arrested in Italy in October 2023, and in July of the following year he was extradited to the United States, where he faced charges related to the international smuggling of several tons of cocaine.
According to court filings, U.S. federal prosecutors and officials from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI have labeled Radonjic a high-ranking member of a transnational drug organization that used commercial cargo ships, including some registered for delivery to the United States, to transport tons of cocaine from South America to Europe. They also allege that they did so on behalf of drug cartels in the Balkans.
"The ship's crew members knowingly participated in the alleged drug trafficking," court documents state.
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Radonjić is charged by US authorities with "coordinating, planning and transporting cocaine shipments" from South America to Europe.
The SDT also named Vujić as a member of the crime team processed yesterday, who, according to previous accusations, together with Igor Vukotić, organizer of the group responsible for the murder of Novljanin Scepan Roganovic. Brother of a high-ranking kavacin Duško Roganovića He was killed on February 13, 2020 near the Kanli Tower.
For this murder, the SDT marked Milija Bajramović as a direct executor.
Vujić is on trial, in addition to organizing the murder of Roganović, for planning the liquidation. Nemanja Zurovec, an alleged member of the Kavač clan.
Montenegrin police announced on August 14 that Vujić had been arrested in Switzerland on an Interpol Podgorica warrant, highlighting his key role in the criminal group.
That something had not gone according to plan became clear on August 29, when it turned out that the person arrested by Swiss authorities was not Vujić. Montenegrin police in Bern refused to take the man into custody because they visually determined that he was not the wanted Skaljari man. It was later confirmed that he was a Slovenian citizen.
They then requested urgent checks, alerted their superiors, who immediately demanded that an international investigation be opened to determine how such an oversight had occurred.
Europol and Interpol investigators would have to find who failed in the chain, from those who participated in the location and arrest operation, to those who handed over the person who would turn out not to be Vujić.
Montenegrin police officers at Bern airport determined that the person in question was a Slovenian citizen.
The Swiss Federal Institute of Justice (BJ) is determining that an arrested Slovenian citizen was mistakenly identified as a fugitive from Skalja.
The Federal Ministry of Justice and Police (EJPD) responded to "Vijesti" by stating that they are doing this with all the relevant authorities there that were involved in the action.
Radović was arrested in Serbia on charges of being part of a criminal group that, on three occasions in 2020, smuggled more than seven tons of cocaine, which was seized in three operations in Aruba and in the ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam.
According to the indictment by Serbian prosecutors, the criminal organization he is a member of purchased cocaine in South America and then transported it hidden in legal cargo to European territory on cargo ships.
Radović was identified as one of the key people in that cartel.
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