In August 2021, the then Acting Assistant Director of the Police Directorate Dejan Knezevic sent an official letter to the Special State Prosecutor's Office in which he wrote that allegedly the management of the Police Directorate, as a collective body, at the collegium of that institution made a decision to delete the entry ban on members of the Belgrade cell of the Kavač clan from the BORDER system. Veljko Belivuk and Marko Miljković.
A few days after the letter was filed with the SDT, the then Chief Special Prosecutor Milivoje Katnic, at a press conference on August 26, 2021, announced that the collegium of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) had made a decision in January to lift the ban on members of the criminal organization from entering Montenegro.
"They were in Montenegro for ten days, accompanied by at least two of our prominent and capable agents, or police officers," Katnić said at the time.
A few hours later, the SDT sent a correction clarifying that the decision to lift the ban was made by the management of the Police Directorate, not the Ministry of the Interior, and that the GST "made an unintentional terminological error."
It was Dejan Knežević's letter that was the reason for the opening of a new investigation by the Special State Prosecutor's Office into the creation of a criminal organization.
On Friday, former UP officials Dejan Knežević and Milorad Žižić, and then the former head of the General Crime Department of the Police Aleksandar Boskovic.
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After a hearing at the Higher Court in Podgorica, the defendants Knežević, Žižić and Bošković were ordered to undergo a supervision measure - a ban on leaving the apartment and a ban on approaching and meeting with certain persons...
They don't know about the decision.
None of the several witnesses, former officials of the Police Directorate, during their testimony at the Special State Prosecutor's Office confirmed that the management of the Police Directorate, headed by the acting head at the time, had Vesko Damjanović, jointly decided to lift the entry ban on Belivuk and Miljković.
Damjanović, testifying during the investigation launched against former GST Milivoje Katnić and former UP assistant director Zoran Lazović, stated that UP collegiums were held on Mondays, and that a joint decision was never made at that level to lift the ban on entry into Montenegro for a person, in this case Belivuk and Miljković.
He explained that this was an operational matter, which was being handled at a lower level, and that Zoran Lazović personally informed him that the ban had been lifted due to three cases, which were allegedly being handled by his Sector at the time.
"The UP management deals with strategic issues, not individual ones," Damjanović explained during his testimony to the prosecution.
During their testimony, the former assistant director of the UP confirmed that the UP management never collectively made a decision to lift the ban on criminals from Belgrade. Enis Baković, former head of the Central Bank of Podgorica Milovan Pavićević...
Enis Baković claimed before prosecutor Jovan Vukotić that Zoran Lazović called him at the end of December 2020 and asked for the measure to be deleted from the system. He stated that he did not question too much why they needed it and that he gave a verbal order to his colleague Aleksandar Bošković to do so.
Baković then clarified that the UP management had never had discussions on this topic, but that he knew that Vesko Damjanović had asked Lazović for a statement on lifting the ban, because the former Minister of Internal Affairs had asked him to do so at the end of January 2021. Sergej Sekulovic.
"The ban has been lifted as I explained," Baković claimed.
He stated that he learned that Dejan Knežević, after taking his place and that of Zoran Lazović, was sending a document to the SDT, and at their request, that the decision to lift the ban on Belivuk and Miljković was made by the UP management.
Knežević didn't even come.
The former head of the Central Bank of Podgorica, Milovan Pavićević, also stated during the hearing in the investigation against Lazović and Katnić that on January 16, 2021, the chief of the Belgrade police Veselin Milić learned that Belivuk and Miljković would come to Montenegro.
This, as he explained, was forwarded To Milorad Žižić.
Pavićević was then asked whether Dejan Knežević had attended UP collegiums, but he stated that he had not seen him in December 2020 and January 2021, but "did not rule out the possibility that UP management had some other collegiums that he had attended."
Suspect Žižić, earlier during his questioning as a witness in the SDT, confirmed that he received information from Pavićević that Belivuk and Miljković were arriving in Montenegro, and that he organized 24-hour surveillance.
He informed the then mayor of Herceg Novi Goran Banićević, who complained to him that there were not enough people to escort Zvicer's guests.
Žižić confirmed that he personally interviewed Radoje Zvicer on December 24, 2020, four days before the entry ban on Miljković and Belivuk was lifted.
He did this because he knew he was in Montenegro, and the conversation, as he explained, was conducted so that the head of the Kavač clan would not take revenge for the attempted murder in Ukraine.
In October 2024, the SDT filed an indictment against Mlivoje Katnić and Zoran Lazović, claiming that they formed a criminal organization, that they only formally took actions against the leaders of the Kavač clan, and that they concealed international information about the head of that criminal organization, Radoje Zvicer, and clan member Duško Roganović.
The indictment charges Zoran Lazović with ordering the lifting of the ban on entry from the UP system for Belivuk and Miljković at the end of December 2020, and with misleading the public about this procedure together with Katnić.
Lazović is accused of having asked Enis Baković on December 28, 2020, to lift the ban on Belivuk and Miljković, explaining to him that this was "necessary for operational work."
Baković called Bošković, and the ban was deleted from the system at 10:07 a.m., December 28, 2020, just two days after the fugitive leader of the Kavač clan requested it via SKY messages through agent Petar Lazović.
The illegal decision and brokering through the UP system led to Belivuk and Miljković staying in Montenegro from January 17 to 29. Two days before the Belgraders left Montenegro, the elder Lazović, according to the SDT, had lunch with them, Zvicer, Ljubo Milović and Slobodan Kašćelan in a restaurant in Grahovo.
Belivuk and Miljković were arrested at the Belgrade airport upon their return from Montenegro, and are on trial in Serbia on charges of committing numerous murders and crimes.
Announcement and memo in the same month
Just in August 2021, when the suspected former assistant director of the UP, at the request of the Special State Prosecutor's Office, sent a document in which he claimed that the UP management had jointly, as a collective body, made a decision to lift the ban on Veljko Belivuk and Marko Miljković, a statement from the SDT arrived, in which they claimed to have shed light on the murder of Baran Damir Hodžić and Adis Spahić.
On August 18 of that year, the SDT announced that Belivuk, Miljković, and Nebojša Janković, according to a previous agreement, together killed Hodžić and Spahić on October 14, 2020, with the deliberate assistance of Ratko Živković.
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