On the orders of the Special State Prosecutor's Office, officers of the Special Police Department arrested former Assistant Director of the Police Administration Dejan Knežević and former police official Milorad Mić Žižić.
According to information from "Vijesti", police officers searched the apartment of Žižić, former head of the Department for Suppression of Serious Crimes in the Sector for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption, in the City Quarter of Podgorica, as well as the "Golf 8" he uses.
Knežević was arrested in 2023, and in the Podgorica High Court he was charged with abuse of office, as part of a police drug cartel.
Žižić was suspended in August by decision of the Minister of Internal Affairs, at the proposal of the Director of the Police Administration.
It was then explained that the suspension decision was served on him due to security concerns.
In June 2019, Žižić was appointed head of the most important Department in the Sector for the Fight against Organized Crime and Corruption (SBPOKK), which was then headed by the now-indicted Zoran Lazović.
That Department was disbanded in April 2023, by decision of the then coordinator and head of the Special Police Department (SPO), Predrag Šuković.
SDT: Searches underway
The SDT officially announced that searches of apartments and other premises used by the arrested are underway.
"On the order of the Special State Prosecutor's Office, the Special Police Department deprived DK, former acting assistant director of the Police Directorate, and M.Ž., former head of the then Department for Suppression of Serious Crimes in the Sector for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption of the Police Directorate, of their liberty due to the existence of grounds for suspicion that they committed the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization and other criminal offenses. A search of the apartments and other premises used by the persons deprived of their liberty is underway, which, after all evidence of criminal offenses and items of importance to the proceedings have been collected, will be taken to the Special State Prosecutor's Office, along with a criminal report, within the legal deadline, for questioning as suspects," the statement reads.
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