Predrag Bošković released to defend himself from prison

Predrag Bošković was allowed to defend himself from freedom after the investigating judge of the Podgorica Higher Court allegedly did not accept the proposal of the Special State Prosecutor's Office to order his detention, "Vijesti" was informed.

"The investigating judge of the Higher Court in Podgorica did not order detention for Predrag Bošković after the hearing. A supervision measure was imposed, with the obligation to periodically report to the Police Directorate," Ivana Vukmirović, an independent public relations advisor at the Higher Court in Podgorica, told "Vijesti".

Bošković's defense attorney, lawyer Mihailo Volkov, told reporters outside the High Court that Bošković was brought before the investigating judge for a decision on detention.

Bošković is suspected of the criminal offense under Article 401, paragraph 2 in conjunction with paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code of Montenegro, namely the creation of a criminal organization.

"My colleague, I and my client referred to the judge's lack of reasonable suspicion and all the reasons for detention that the SDT found as the basis for its proposal. Predrag Bošković has made sense of everything that was charged against him in the order. With this decision, the investigating judge has given an assessment of everything that was put in the proposal for detention," said Volkov.

Bošković was brought in earlier today for questioning by the investigating judge of the Higher Court who was deciding on the proposal of special prosecutors to send the former Minister of Defense to the Supka Remand Prison.

A member of the Main Board of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) was arrested yesterday at the Podgorica airport on suspicion of being a member of Aleksandar Mijajlović's organized crime group, which, among other things, influenced the electoral will of citizens, abused his official position and disclosed secret information.

The SDT identifies the members of this criminal organization as a senior state prosecutor, Mijajlović's cousin Andrijana Nastic, two former assistant directors of the Police Directorate, Drago Spičanović and Milovan Pavićević, police officer Vladan Lazović, and several unidentified individuals.

Special prosecutors Miroslav Turković, Ivana Petrušić Vukašević and Jovan Vukotić, who signed the order, suspect that Bošković, while he was at the head of the defense department, influenced the voting rights of employees in his companies through Mijajlović, and that he took money from him for the 2020 elections.