The president of the special panel, Judge Vesna Kovačević, read during the evidentiary proceedings extensive documentation regarding the company "Euro MN", owned by the accused Arsenije Kalezić, reports from the Customs Administration of the customs office in Bar, which stated that warehouse number 13 in the free zone of the Port of Bar was completely empty.
The minutes from August 2019 stated that the warehouse, measuring approximately 600 square meters, was supposed to contain 16.882 packages of various types of cigarettes, but that they left the free zone of the Port of Bar without customs supervision.
The trial of former Director of the Police Administration Veselin Veljović and other defendants, accused of creating a criminal organization and abuse of official position, continued today at the Higher Court in Podgorica, with the reading of written evidence and the hearing of witnesses.
The case has been merged with the indictment filed against the former head of the criminal police in Bar, Ilija Vasović, who is accused of being part of Aleksandar Mrkić's criminal organization to which he disclosed official information.
Referring to the evidence read, the accused Kalezić said that in July of that year, he sold the company to Nemanja Anđelković, and that in August it was not in his name and surname.
In the information from the Customs Administration dated August 7, 2019, it was stated, among other things, that they had a problem with terminating the contract with the company "Euro MN" and leaving the warehouse in the free zone of the Port of Bar.
The operator of the Port of Bar was informed that the warehouse had been emptied, that there were no goods in the warehouse, but that it must have contained 16.682 packs of cigarettes, worth 1.700.000 euros. The report concludes that the packs of cigarettes left the Port of Bar "under" customs supervision.
The information from the Customs Administration - Free Zone of the Port of Bar dated August 8, 2019, states that the head of the customs office discovered irregularities in the "Euro MN" warehouse, and that there are no goods in the warehouse.
The accused Kalezić said that he did not send an email or SMS message to the then executive director of the Port of Bar, the now deceased VV.
"I never sent an email to VV, the content of which was '...director, the warehouse is empty...' He passed away and now I'm embarrassed to talk about it. We met by chance in the hallway of the administrative building, and we spent about a minute in a private conversation, he asked me about my health. I did not terminate the contract with Luka Bar, but Nemanja Andjelković continued those jobs," said Kalezić.
After Judge Vesna Kovačević read out the mobile phone number, the defendant confirmed that it was once his number.
"That's really strange to me. I didn't send VV messages. I didn't give my phone to anyone. I didn't keep it in my pocket, it was on the table while I was sitting in a cafe, or when I went to the toilet. I've never sent an email in my life. I'm electronically illiterate," claims Kalezić.
The defense objected that the picture from the phone and the message could not be used as evidence in criminal proceedings, that the message had been sent. The defense also challenged the lager list, because it is not known who made it and based on what data.
Special Prosecutor Jovan Vukotić said that the freight forwarder did not dispute the warehouse list.
The defense pointed out that the warehouse list was not signed and proposed to the trial panel to remove it from the case file as legally invalid evidence.
"I oppose the defense's proposal, since all the documentation seized by the Customs Administration was submitted to the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT). This is just one of ten pieces of evidence confirming that the Customs Administration noticed in 2019 that a huge amount of cigarettes were missing from Warehouse 13," emphasized Prosecutor Vukotić.
The indictment states that the defendant Kalezić had the task, in order to implement the criminal plan, of establishing and registering the legal entity "Euro MN" DOO PG, for the purpose of smuggling cigarettes, transmitting messages from the organizer to other members of the criminal organization, and providing mobile phones with an encrypted communication application to other members of the criminal organization.
In warehouse number 13, the defendant purchased and stored cigarettes for the legal entity "Euro MN", a total of 16.682 packages. It is added that the Customs Administration officials, in a report dated 8 August 2019, stated that "the warehouse was completely empty, that there were no goods in it", "and that the warehouse should have contained 16.682 packages of cigarettes of various brands that the user had stored in the previous period".
According to the indictment, Aleksandar Lj. Mrkić, Veselin R. Veljović, Nikola Lj. Mrkić, Mujo Nikočević, Arsenije Kalezić, Stefan D. Bubanja, Nikola D. Bubanja, Željko M. Bulatović from Kolašin, Dušica G. Bulatović. Predrag D. Veljić, Borislav R. Lečić, Nemanja N. Anđelković, Goran M. Gluščević, Nikola M. Bačilović and Sadik A. Elnagar, in the course of 2018, in Cmoja Gora, the defendant Mrkić Aleksandar organized a criminal organization, whose members Veljović Veselin, Nikola Mrkić, Mujo Nikočević, Kalezić Arsenije, Bubanja Stefan, Bubanja Nikola, Bulatović Željko, Bulatović Dušica, Veljić Predrag, Borislav Lečić, Anđelković Nemanja, Gluščević Goran, Bačilović Nikola, Sadig Elnagar and other unidentified persons became defendants. the organization aimed to commit an unspecified number of criminal acts, smuggling and money laundering, in order to gain illegal profits and power. By which the defendant Mrkić Aleksandar committed the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization from Article 401a paragraph 1 in relation to paragraph 6 of the Cme Gora Criminal Code, and the defendants Veljović Veselin, Nikočević Mujo, Mrkić Nikola, Kalezić Arsenije, Bubanja Stefan, Bubanja Nikola, Bulatović Željko, Bulatović Dušica , Veljić Predrag, Lečić Borislav, Anđelković Nemanja, Gluščević Goran, Bačilović Nikola and Sadig Elnagar, the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization from Article 401a paragraph 2 in connection with paragraph 1 16 of the Criminal Code of Cme Gora.
The defendants Mrkić Aleksandar, Nemanja Anđelković and Arsenije Kalezić committed the criminal offense of smuggling as co-perpetrators. Then, the indictment states that the defendants Mrkić Aleksandar, Bubanja Stefan and Bubanja Nikola committed the criminal offense of smuggling as co-perpetrators under Article 265 paragraph 2 in connection with Article 23 paragraph 2 of the Criminal Code of Cme Gora.
The defendant Veljović Veselin committed the criminal offense of abuse of official position under Article 416 paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code of Montenegro.
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