The National Security Agency (ANB) has initiated proceedings against its arrested officer. Dear Spičanović, but due to confidentiality, they are not revealing whether he was suspended or permanently removed from his job.
A former official of the Police and Secret Service Directorate was arrested in early October on suspicion of being one of the alleged leaders of the so-called Grand Clan, Aleksandar Mijajlović transmitted secret information from the parliamentary "dead room" on the assessment of a high-risk event and sent him secret Agency information.
According to "Vijesti", Spičanović's colleagues from the secret police, even before the operation in which Baranin was deprived of his liberty, doubted his professionalism and denied him access to secret information.
However, the ANB neither confirmed nor denied this.
"Data related to the legal and employment status of employees of the National Security Agency are contained in the Agency's personnel records, which, in accordance with the Law on the National Security Agency and the Law on Data Secrecy, are marked with the level of secrecy "SECRET", and this data cannot be publicly available. In this regard, and bearing in mind the subject of interest, we inform you that the Agency has taken certain actions in relation to employee Drago Spičanović, in accordance with the Law on the National Security Agency and other systemic laws," the Agency, which he manages, responded to "Vijesti" Ivica Janović.
This is how they answered a set of questions from "Vijesti", including what Spičanović's legal and employment status is at the ANB, whether he is still employed by that agency, whether he has been suspended or his employment has ended, and also what job and title he was assigned to immediately before his arrest.
The secret service of "Vijesti" was also asked whether the editorial office's information that Spičanović's access to classified information was revoked months before his arrest was accurate, if so, when that decision was made and what level of secrecy it refers to, as well as whether, after the arrest of their employee, they conducted any internal risk assessment or audit of access to the systems and databases he used and whether the level of abuse was determined.
Spičanović and Mijajlović are in custody in Supša after they were handcuffed on October 3 in an operation by the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) and the Special Police Department (SPO).
In addition to the two, a former police official was also deprived of his liberty. Milovan Pavićević, a police officer Vladan Lazović and senior state prosecutor Andrijana Nastić, Mijajlović's cousin. After them, the former Minister of Defense, a DPS official, was also arrested. Predrag Boskovic.
Prosecutors charge them with creating a criminal organization, abuse of official position, disclosure of secret information, and, among other things, influencing the exercise of citizens' voting rights by deciding on the duration of employment in companies linked to the criminal organization...
All denied the charges, and after being questioned by the investigating judge, Mijajlović and Spičanović were sent behind bars, Pavićević and Lazović were placed under house arrest, and prosecutor Nastic was ordered to report to the police occasionally and was suspended by decision of the Prosecutorial Council. After being questioned by the investigating judge, Bošković was released to defend himself at liberty, with the requirement that he report to the police...
Worked in the service, but Mijajlović
According to the SDT, the defendant Spičanović passed on information obtained from the "dead room" of a session of the secret part of the parliamentary Committee for Security and Defense to the organizer of the criminal group Mijajlović.
As they say, he informed him about how the then Deputy Prime Minister Dritan Abazovic was a topic, because he visited in prison Ljubo Bigović, one of those convicted of murdering a police inspector Slavoljub Šćekić at the end of August 2005.
According to SDT, he sent messages via WhatsApp on October 25, 2021: "They killed Dritan at the parliamentary committee in the 'dead room' about the visit to Bigović... They asked him for a note... which of course he doesn't have."
The SDT also cites other material evidence, writing that from the statement of the Security and Defense Committee No. 00-63-4/21-70/2 of October 25, 2021, it follows that the Committee submitted a report from the 19th session on the control hearing of Abazović, the then Acting Supreme State Prosecutor. Drazen Burić, former Chief Special Prosecutor Milivoj Katnić, former directors of the ANB Dejan Vukšić and the head of the SPO Dragan Radonjić.
Citing messages they exchanged, the special prosecutors also state that he provided him with information about the identities of women, in whom Mijajlović was interested, but also that he sent him parts of a report prepared by the Internal Control of the Ministry of the Interior, regarding the use of force by police officers during the protest on September 5, 2021, during the enthronement in Cetinje. A month after the risky enthronement in the Cetinje Monastery, when the police used both force and coercion, Spičanović informed the alleged organizer of the criminal group about the information obtained from the Internal Control of the Ministry of the Interior.
They also state that from June 30, 2020 to October 1 of that year, Spičanović, as a high-ranking public official of the Police Department - Assistant Police Director, in response to several inquiries from Mijajlović, sent personal data and identification numbers of persons he had taken from the MUP system, in whom the businessman was interested, via messages.
The order states that on August 19, 2020, via the WhatsApp application, Mijajlović asked Spičanović to check the personal information of the mother of then-MP Aleksa Bečić, in order to verify whether she was the owner of a property in Bečići.
Spičanović, they claim, gave him her name, age, and then her ID number in the message.
They charge him with inciting UP officers to commit a criminal offense at Mijajlović's invitation, and that, as the head of the VI Sector of the ANB and a senior inspector in the Bar subcenter, from August 18, 2022 to January 21, 2023, in Podgorica and Bar, he sent the requested data, even though, as a civil servant, he knew that, in order to pursue private interests or the interests of others, he was not allowed to use state property and the data at his disposal in the performance of his duties.
During that period, the defendant Spičanović sent information on the names or owners of cars on several occasions, which Mijajlović was interested in.
"And thus, the organizer of the criminal organization, the defendant Mijajlović, provided the information that the Police Department has or that was obtained in the performance of his duties and police work, which, as an unauthorized person, he was not allowed to obtain," the SDT states.
He also told Mijajlović that he had access to video surveillance of protected facilities, such as the Parliament, but also participated in the hours-long hunt for the president of the URA Police Headquarters, Dritan Abazović, who was a key political figure and a weight in the balance after the parliamentary elections on August 30, 2020. Spičanović reports to Mijajlović and explains what the police team in Nikšić did at his request.
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