The Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) has filed an indictment against long-time secret agent Duško Golubović and Sander Stanaj from Tušan on suspicion of creating a criminal organization that damaged the state by 18 million and 260 thousand euros through cigarette smuggling.
This was announced by the SDT, stating that indictments have been filed against 13 more people.
The SDT claims that the members of this criminal organization since its establishment and during its activities became defendants: Nuo Stanaj, Abedin Pepić, Andrija Petanović, Vukota Vujošević, Đoko Lješković, Mileta Simanić, Adnan Suković, Ivan Turčinović, Predrag Madžgalj, Veton Berišaj, Prokopije Perić, Dejan Milić, Radoje Dakić, and other currently unidentified persons.
"The Special State Prosecutor's Office, after completing the investigation, today submitted an indictment to the Special Department of the High Court in Podgorica against 15 defendants: DG, SS, NS, AP, AP, VV, Đ. Lj, MS, AS, VB, PP, PM, DM, RD and IT, for the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization and several extended criminal offenses of smuggling, committed in complicity," the SDT statement states.
The prosecutor's office said that the subject of the indictment was "a well-founded suspicion that the defendants DG and SS organized a criminal organization, whose members were the other defendants and other unknown persons, with the aim of, during 2020 and 2021, transporting untaxed cigarettes from the free customs zone of the Port of Bar across the customs line, while avoiding customs supervision measures, and selling, concealing and distributing them in Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia and Italy, so that by not paying customs duties, excise duties and taxes for smuggled cigarettes, they obtained illegal profits for the criminal organization and caused damage to the injured party, Montenegro."
"A financial investigation has been launched against the defendants and their associated persons, the subject of which is all movable and immovable property for which there is a reasonable suspicion that the defendants acquired it through the commission of criminal offenses, with the aim of its permanent confiscation," the SDT statement reads.
Golubović is suspected of having devised a criminal plan with Stanaj, and then organizing the transfer of tobacco products, which were purchased for members of the criminal organization, cleared through customs and stored in the Free Customs Zone of the Port of Bar, across the customs line, while avoiding customs supervision measures, to the customs territory of Montenegro.
After that, members of their crime team took them over and drove them in trucks to warehouses in Podgorica and Tuzi.
Sander Stanaj's task was to procure cigarettes from abroad, either alone or with the help of other members of the criminal organization, and organize their delivery to Montenegro, as well as to store and guard them in warehouses in the port of Bar.
After Golubović smuggled the cigarettes across the customs line, he organized the collection and transportation of tobacco products from Bar to the warehouse, determined the price, method and terms of payment, and distributed and sold them through other members.
Golubović was handcuffed by officers of the Special Police Department (SPO) on May 9, and Sander Stanaj is on the run and the police are looking for him.
On suspicion that they were part of their criminal group, SPO officers arrested at the beginning of last week, on the orders of the SDT, the director of the company "Plus" Prokopije Perić, Milić, Dakić, Simanić, Suković, Turčinović and the owner of the company "MP ŠPED TRANS", Madžgalj.
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