They can go home, but with a limp: Vasović and Kalezić's detention lifted

Detention was lifted yesterday Ilija Vasović i Arsenije Kalezić, to the accused members of the group Aleksandar Mrkić.

This decision was made by the president of the special council, judge Vesna Kovačević - at the proposal of lawyers Nikola Strugar and Nebojša Asanović.

The court, however, forbade them from leaving the apartments they live in, where they will have to wear anklets until further notice. Their passports were also confiscated.

The case was previously merged with the indictment filed against the former head of the criminal police in Bar - Vasović, who was accused of leaking official information to Mrkić.

The indictment states that the defendant Arsenije Kalezić had the task, in order to implement the criminal plan, of establishing and registering the legal entity "Euro MN" for the purpose of smuggling cigarettes, transmitting messages from the organizer to other members of the criminal organization, and providing mobile phones with an encrypted communication application to other members of the criminal organization.

It says that in one warehouse, for that legal entity, he purchased and stored a total of 16.682 packs of cigarettes. It adds that Customs Administration officials, in a report dated August 8, 2019, stated that "the warehouse was completely empty, that there were no goods in it", and that the warehouse should have contained 16.682 packs of cigarettes of various brands...

Vasović is accused of providing Mrkić with secret police information, and Kalezić of directly participating in cigarette smuggling and providing mobile phones with an encrypted application.

Trial of the group that includes the former director of the Police Directorate Veselin Veljović, continued with the reading of written evidence, to which the defense objected.

According to the indictment, Aleksandar Lj. Mrkić organized a criminal organization whose members included Veljović Veselin, Mrkić Nikola, Nikočević Mujo, Kalezić Arsenije, Bubanja Stefan, Bubanja Nikola, Bulatović Željko, Bulatović Dušica, Veljić Predrag, Lečić Borislav, Anđelković Nemanja, Gluščević Goran, Bačilović Nikola, Sadig Elnagar and other unidentified persons, which aimed to commit an unspecified number of criminal acts of smuggling and money laundering, for the purpose of acquiring illegal profit and power.