The Serbian Embassy in Lisbon served as a safe house for a cocaine stash by a criminal group gathered around a former Democratic Front MP Milo Božović.
At least that's what it says in the messages that the former mayor of Budva Municipality exchanged with a fellow citizen in May 2020. Ivan Mijatović.
The indictment of the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) against the multi-member criminal group mentions this specific shipment of cocaine, but not the Embassy of Serbia. The document states that the cocaine was sent to a "secure location."
From the Ministries of Internal and Foreign Affairs of Serbia, led by Ivica Dacic i Marko Djuric, have not responded to Vijesti's questions about the alleged hiding of cocaine at the Serbian Embassy in Portugal since last week.
During the period when, according to Sky, at least 100 kilograms of cocaine were hidden in the Serbian diplomatic mission, their ambassador to Portugal was the now deceased Oliver AnticHe died in February 2022 after falling from a cliff in the town of Cascais near Lisbon.
That city is also mentioned in Mijatović's correspondence with Božović.
Correspondence from the once-protected Sky application, which is in the possession of Vijesti, shows that Božović, a former member of the parliamentary Committee on Security and Defense, asked Mijatović in early May 2020 to remove a shipment of cocaine from the MSC Fantasia ship that had sailed into the port of Lisbon.
"Sedi told me what you need in Lisbon. Brother, I have everything - the crate, who will take it, to keep it, only the airport is a**banned, is there a control at the airport. And now, can he go out and deliver it, so that they can wait for him and take it. He knows which terminal... You know how, brother, let's leave the car in the parking lot where he comes and he puts it in the car, and then someone picks it up and drives it from the airport, and I'll send someone to record the situation at the airport and what the controls are. And if he can throw it out of the port now if they let them in, he can do that, and I can also see if he can pass it to someone at the port to pick it up for you. In the port where it docks, if it docks in Lisbon... Brother, it's best to make a plan for you, I'll organize the people and the crate for you, and this Portuguese guy doesn't work, now they've let me know... I have everything you need in terms of logistics, so just make a plan," Mijatović wrote to Božović at the end of March 2020...
The ship has arrived.
The ship with the drugs arrived in early May, when the conversation between the then manager of the Budva Municipality and a Cetinje resident in Budva intensified...
Previously, in March of that year, Božović was connected to Mijatović by a member of a criminal organization whose nickname on one of the Sky accounts was 444848, and whom they both address Locations.
It is Sedi who informs Božović that "we have an ambassador of Serbia" in Lisbon...
Hidden behind nicknames Jumbo i William 9, two Budva residents have been negotiating for days about how to remove the cocaine from the ship, but also how to get Božović's associate who was supposed to give them the drugs off the vessel, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic...
"It would be best if he called the Serbian embassy to pick him up at the terminal, so he could go home and drop him off. And this guy, who I know, will drive him, for sure... And I think he would accept to do that and drop him off at the Embassy," Mijatović wrote on May 8.
A day later, he informs Božović that the ambassador came to him and told him that a private flight was coming from Serbia in three days, that he was doing the paperwork for some crew and that they were landing with Air Pink...
"Here's the ambassador coming to me, he says the 11th private flight from Serbia is coming for some crew, so he did the paperwork. They're flying with Air Pink... But I'm not sitting with him, brother, and they represent Montenegro too. He has a deputy, a chick. He's 70 years old. Here's this younger one, if it's worth it, I'll transfer my brother to the embassy, is it outside Lisbon now, about 20 minutes," Mijatović writes.
He sends Božović photos of a ship that has sailed into the port of Lisbon and from which they are to extract cocaine, along with the message:
"This is a house to do, brother. I've been in worse things. Brother, he can literally give it to us, brother. I have a 7-minute hold, if we're not going to fall in 7 minutes to the hold, then let him go to the house. I'm taking the goods directly to the embassy and in case something happens, you know where it is. I'll give you the ambassador's call," he writes to him...
He asks Božović to tell him what to do - "we'll do it easily, as long as the goods are safe"...
He also states that it will melt easily afterwards:
"Are two going to get in, hand the goods to the driver, the driver drives, the box is where I told you"...
He also adds that he has trucks with which he can transport "goods" and which go to Spain, Italy, Slovenia and Croatia three times a month...
On the same day, they negotiate about the percentage they have to give to the team that "extracts" cocaine, so Božović complains because they are being charged 12 percent for that job, and Mijatović explains that this applies if they work on half a ton, and that it is 20 percent for 100 kilograms...
The deal, it appears from their correspondence, was completed shortly after midnight local time, when Mijatović informed Božović that: "The goods are safe, brother"...
Six orange bags
According to the SDT indictment, another person was involved in the case, and they are trying to determine her identity through messages on the Sky app, which all the suspects used.
In the same documents, it is explained that on May 9, 2020, around thirty minutes after midnight, from the ship "MSC Fantasia", which was anchored in the port of Lisbon, this third person lowered six orange bags, which contained 100 packs of cocaine.
"In the manner in which the person who used the PIN TL9TOH on the encrypted application 'SKY ECC', acting on the orders of the defendant Milo Božović, on 9 May 2020, at around 5:00.30, from the ship 'MSC Fantasy', which was anchored in the port of Lisbon, unloaded six orange bags containing a total of 100 packages of the narcotic drug cocaine," the prosecution's files state.
They explain that five bags contained 17 kilograms of cocaine, and one contained 15 kilograms.
SDT claims that the cocaine belonged to Božović and that it was taken by a so far unknown person by boat:
"On the order of the defendant Ivan Mijatović, who acted on the orders of the defendant Milo Božović. After that, the defendant Ivan Mijatović, also acting on the orders of the defendant Milo Božović, transported the said narcotic drug cocaine to a safe location in Lisbon on the same day, and then on 11 May 5 he transported the narcotic drug in question from that location to another safe location in to the town of Costa da Caparica, and all with the aim of further unauthorized sales for the account of the defendant Milo Božović," the files say.
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