One of the leaders of the so-called Grand Clan Aleksandar Aco Mijajlović (56) in the police drug cartel was responsible for finding ports suitable for cocaine smuggling, in which he himself participated - in just eight months, from August 2020 to March 2021, this criminal group smuggled more than four tons of cocaine from South America to the European continent, according to special prosecutors.
In the files that "Vijesti" has access to, the roles of all members of the police drug cartel, of which the Žablja resident is a part, are precisely explained, according to prosecutors. Vukasin Vojinovic (55)
This stems from an extensive investigation by the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT), which began in 2022 and culminated in the filing of multiple indictments over the previous three years, while certain investigative steps were completed in early December 2025, when an arrest warrant was issued for Vojinović, who is on the run.
According to SDT documents, Vojinović and Mijajlović were part of an international criminal organization that they formed back in 2019. Ljubo Milović i Mileta Ojdanic.
According to their instructions, Vukašin Vojinović and Aleksandar Mijajlović were tasked with participating in cocaine smuggling:
"The defendant Vukašin Vojinović was tasked with participating in the smuggling of the narcotic drug cocaine, as well as taking other actions according to the instructions and orders of the organizer of the criminal organization transmitted personally or through a member of the criminal organization, the defendant Filip Zindović. The defendant Aleksandar Mijajlović was tasked with participating in the smuggling of the narcotic drug cocaine, finding other ports suitable for smuggling the narcotic drug cocaine, previously transported by sea from Ecuador, as well as taking other actions according to the instructions and orders of the organizer of the criminal organization transmitted through a member of the criminal organization, the defendant Petar Lazović," the special prosecutors explain.
This criminal organization, according to special prosecutors, operated in the territories of Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Ecuador, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Turkey and other European countries, with a clear division of roles and a strictly hierarchical structure.
SDT files show that Vukašin Vojinović played an active role in several cocaine shipments, participating in the organization of transport and the implementation of criminal orders transmitted to him by the organizers or their closest associates. Aleksandar Mijajlović, according to the prosecution, was in charge of finding alternative ports suitable for receiving cocaine shipments from South America, as well as logistics after the drugs arrived on European soil.
Both men are accused in the indictments of smuggling more than four tons of cocaine, in four separate shipments.
The special prosecutors precisely state the quantities of cocaine that are the subject of individual criminal offenses, and the evidence they have obtained shows that the drug cartel smuggled 985 kilograms of the drug in August and September 2020, and in the following two months 991 kilograms and 895 grams, as well as an additional 272 kilograms. In January and February of the following year, the special prosecutors claim, they smuggled 846 kilograms of cocaine, and in February and March 2021 an additional 1.044,71 kilograms of the expensive white powder.
Some of the shipments were seized in Ecuador and Belgium, while others, according to the SDT, were successfully distributed to the illegal market, where multi-million dollar revenues were generated.
Arrests
In the first days of December 2025, officers of the Special Police Department (SPO) led by Predrag Šuković They deprived the freedom of the councilor of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) in the Kotor Municipal Assembly Vuk Banićević (45) and his brother Government of Banićević (44) called Bitter.
They were handcuffed in the continuation of the investigation against the so-called police drug cartel, against which the SDT filed an indictment back in 2023, for smuggling several tons of cocaine, money laundering, disclosing classified information, arms smuggling, intimidation, influencing the appointment of people close to them to management positions in the Police Directorate, in order to obtain classified information and other important data, as well as influencing the electoral will of citizens in the parliamentary elections in August 2020.
In the order to conduct the investigation, the SDT included, in addition to the Banićević brothers, Vojinović, Mijajlović, Filip Zindović Kljajević (37) They will not be Bulgarians (46) Petar Lazović (36) Radoja Zvicer (44) Božidar Jabučanin (49) Milan Popović (43) and Vladimir Bajcet (46)
They are accused of smuggling cocaine on four occasions, as co-perpetrators, at the end of 2020 and during 2021.
Special prosecutors explain that Milović and Ojdanić created and organized a criminal organization in 2019, and then recruited, either alone or through other members. Ivan Stamatović, Nebojša Bugarin, Petar Lazović, Marko Novaković, Milan Popović, Božidar Jabučanin, Miloš Mišurović, Aleksandar Keković, Vadimir Bajčeta, Goran Stojanović, Drazen Milović, Filip Zindović Kljajević, Ivan Nikolić, Tihomir Adzic, Dejan Knežević, Milo Božović, Bojan Ojdanić, Radovan Perović, Vjekoslav Lambulić, Vukašin Vojinović, Aleksandar Mijajlović, brothers Vuk and Vlado Banićević and several unidentified persons.
They state that this criminal organization was formed with the aim of committing criminal offenses - drug trafficking, money laundering, illegal possession of weapons and explosives, causing general danger, revealing secret information...
They also explain that the cartel smuggled cocaine from Ecuador to Europe and Turkey, and that they transferred the money earned from drug sales to Serbia and Montenegro.
Mijajlović five, Vojinović and Zindović 20 kg of drugs
Special prosecutors have determined that on November 22, 2020, a criminal team gathered around Milović and Ojdanić loaded 17 canvas bags full of cocaine into a container in Ecuador, and then loaded the container onto the MSC Arushi ship in the port of Guayaquil.
These 17 bags contained 1007 blocks of cocaine labeled "Baron", "23", "SAA" ">", with a total weight of 991 kilograms and 895 grams.
“What drugs were found in the said container by Ecuadorian counter-narcotics units and specialist support and search dog handlers,” the documents state.
Reading the messages that Vojinović, Lazović and Mijajlović wrote while hiding behind the Sky nicknames Zidan, Junior and Miki1, the prosecutors specify that Mijajlović had his own five kilograms of cocaine in that delivery, and that Vojinović and Zindović's joint share was 20 kilograms...
Bulgarian smuggled and sold, Lazović tortured on orders of his boss
Prosecutors specify that Milović and Ojdanić, either alone or through other members, recruited other members of the clan, then assigned them roles and tasks, gave them instructions and directions...
They state that the Banićević brothers were tasked with participating in cocaine smuggling, as well as taking other actions on the instructions and orders of the organizer of the criminal organization, Ljubo Milović.
"The accused Nebojša Bugarin had the task of participating as a police officer in the transport of the narcotic drug cocaine from Ecuador to Europe, and its further sale on the territory of Montenegro, to recruit other members of the criminal organization, or rather officers of the Police Directorate, to participate in the smuggling of narcotic drugs and to give money to officers of the Police Directorate, to take over money on the orders of the organizer of the criminal organization, as well as to undertake other actions on the instructions and orders of the organizer," the files state.
Special prosecutors also explain the role of defendant Petar Lazović in that cartel, one of whose tasks was to torture members of opposing criminal organizations.
“...As a police officer of the Police Directorate, he disclosed confidential information to the criminal organization regarding the activities and cases concerning members of this and other criminal organizations, as well as participating in the transport of the narcotic drug cocaine from Ecuador to Europe, during the deprivation of liberty, to torture members of opposing criminal organizations in order to obtain confessions or other information and to deliver the information obtained through torture to the organizer of the criminal organization, to deliver data from the civil status records of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the crossing of the state border, which are used exclusively for the performance of police duties, to the organizer of the criminal organization, Ljubo Milović, as well as to undertake other actions according to the instructions and orders of the organizer...”
Milan Popović's task was, as a police officer, to provide the criminal organization with confidential information regarding activities and cases concerning members of that and other criminal organizations, but also to participate in the transport of cocaine from Ecuador to Europe, monitor the movement of persons according to the tasks and instructions of the organizer, inform him about their locations, facilities and vehicles, as well as to provide Milović with data from the civil status records of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the crossing of the state border, which are used exclusively for the performance of police duties.
Part of that police officer's duties was to seize weapons, cocaine, and money...
According to special prosecutors, Jabučanin participated in the transport of cocaine from Ecuador to Europe, but also recruited other members of the criminal organization to transfer money, as well as to participate in the transport of illegally obtained money from the Kingdom of Belgium and the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Montenegro...
"The accused Vladimir Bajčeta was tasked with participating in the transport of the narcotic drug cocaine from Ecuador to Europe, finding individuals who would store money in the Kingdom of the Netherlands for the needs of the criminal organization, providing these individuals with money for their arrival and renting facilities where the money would be stored, as well as taking other actions according to the instructions and orders of the organizer," the prosecutor's files state...
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