The Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) has issued an order to conduct an investigation against 11 people for the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization and several criminal offenses of unauthorized production, possession and distribution of narcotic drugs.
This group includes Radoje Zvicer, Vuk Banicevic, Vlado Banicevic, Aleksandar Mijajlovic, Vukasin Vojinovic, Vladimir Bajceta, Filip Zindovic, Nebojsa Bugarin, Petar Lazovic, Milan Popovic, Bozidar Jabucanin.
This case is part of the continuation of prosecutorial actions against the so-called police drug cartel, headed by Ljubo Milović and Mileta Ojdanić.
"Acting on a criminal report from the Special Police Department, the Special State Prosecutor's Office, after hearing the defendants, today issued an order to conduct an investigation and thus initiated criminal proceedings against VV, AM, VB and VB, for the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization, and against VV, VB and VB, for four criminal offenses of unauthorized production, possession and distribution of narcotic drugs, against NB and BJ, for three criminal offenses of unauthorized production, possession and distribution of narcotic drugs, against AM and MP, for two criminal offenses of unauthorized production, possession and distribution of narcotic drugs, and against RZ, FZ, PL and VB, for one criminal offense each of unauthorized production, possession and distribution of narcotic drugs," the SDT announced.
They remind that the SDT had previously filed indictments for the creation of a criminal organization against Bugarin, Jabučanin, Popović, Zvicer, Zindović, Lazović and Bajčeta.
The order to conduct the investigation also proposed to the investigating judge of the Higher Court in Podgorica to order detention for the Banićević brothers, who were arrested yesterday, while the other defendants are already in custody in other criminal proceedings or are on the run.
The Special State Prosecutor's Office in the indictment against the drug cartel, among other things, alleges that individuals, at the behest of Milović and Ojdanić, organized the smuggling of cocaine from Ecuador to the European Union and Turkey, transported the money obtained from cocaine to Serbia and Montenegro, but also used violence and intimidated other persons, procured large quantities of weapons and explosives... influenced the appointment of persons close to them to management positions in the Police Directorate in order to obtain classified information and other important data, but also that they used money acquired through criminal activity to prevent voters from exercising their right to vote in the parliamentary elections in August 2020 in Montenegro...
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