Police Directorate officer Aleksandar Bošković was arrested as part of the latest investigation by the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) for lifting the ban on entry from the police system of Belgrade criminals Veljko Belivuk and Marko Miljković, at the end of December 2020, "Vijesti" learned from several sources.
Bošković was then the head of the General Crime Department in the Crime Prevention Sector.
Bošković was arrested on Saturday evening by officers of the Special Police Department (SPO), on the orders of SDT prosecutor Jovan Vukotić.
As part of this investigation, former Assistant Director of the Police Administration Dejan Knežević and former Head of the Department for Suppression of Serious Crimes Milorad Žižić were arrested on Friday.
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They will be brought before the investigating judge of the Podgorica High Court tonight at 7:30 p.m. for questioning.
Aleksandar Bošković, together with his now deceased colleague S. Đ., was arrested in mid-October 2021, on the orders of the then prosecutor of the Basic State Prosecutor's Office, Vukas Radonjić, on suspicion of abusing his official position by lifting the ban on entry into Montenegro for members of the criminal group Belivuk and Miljković.
The investigation was opened after the then State Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Rade Milošević, filed a criminal complaint for manipulation in the Police Administration system, namely the cancellation of the ban on entering Montenegro for two criminals from Belgrade.
This measure was imposed on Belivuk and Miljković for reasons of national and internal security.
The ban was, as is believed, deleted from the code of the UP employee, who was on sick leave at the time, and Bošković and S. Đ worked with her in the same UP department at the time.
The case was almost "kidnapped" from the Special State Prosecutor's Office on the same night that Prosecutor Radonjić issued a written order for the arrest of the UP officer, and then handed over to the jurisdiction of the Special State Prosecutor's Office, at a time when it was headed by Milivoje Katnić.
Special Prosecutor Sanja Jovićević immediately made the decision to release Bošković and S. Đ. because there is no basis for suspicion for their detention.
A few days later, Bošković and his colleague filed criminal charges against Prosecutor Radonjić, claiming that he "unfoundedly, illegally and out of malicious intent ordered their arrest."
A year and a half later, the case was opened at the Committee on Political System, Judiciary and Administration when a control hearing was held regarding the actions of judicial authorities in the case of lifting the ban on entering Montenegro for Veljko Belivuk and Marko Miljković.
The Committee heard numerous accusations about the prosecutors' actions, pressures, and decisions in October 2021.
Radonjić announced that day that the police had not obeyed his verbal order to arrest the police officers as suspects in the lifting of the ban on Belivuk and Miljković entering Montenegro. After he had given a written order, as he said, the head of the Higher State Prosecutor's Office, Lepa Medenica, called him around midnight and asked him to release the police officers, accusing him of acting illegally.
"When I refused, she told me that the acting VDT (Dražen Burić) would call me. He didn't ask me to release them, but he did ask me to hand over the files to the SDT. I made a note about it, it's all in the register of the Prosecutor's Office ", Radonjic said.
The former acting head of the Podgorica Basic Prosecutor's Office, Nikola Boričić, also made accusations against Prosecutor Medenić at the committee session. He said he was convinced "that this case was the reason for his downfall."
After that, the then Minister of Justice Marko Kovač sent a proposal to the Prosecutorial Council for the dismissal of the head of the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica, Lepa Medenica.
At that time, the Ministry of Justice announced that after reviewing the official note, made by prosecutor Vukas Radonjić, "it was determined that there is a suspicion that Lepa Medenica exerted inappropriate influence on him as the acting prosecutor in the case formed regarding the lifting of the ban on entering Montenegro for Belivuk and Miljković."
The then disciplinary prosecutor Tanja Nišavić also sought dismissal, but the Prosecutorial Council stopped the proceedings at the first step, because they did not enter into the merits, but rather rejected the indictment proposal due to formal and legal shortcomings, thus ending the months-long saga about this case within the prosecutorial organization.
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