Kajević wants to settle with SDT

The start of the trial of those accused of cigarette smuggling and the creation of a criminal organization: Velimir Milačić, owner of the company "Agrarija", Žarko Bulatović, owner of "Bat Bojana", Mujo Mujević from Rožaje, Slobodan Đurica and Enis Kajević, was postponed today at the Higher Court in Podgorica to April 3, a special panel chaired by Nada Rabrenović decided.

As announced by Judge Rabrenović, the defense attorney of the defendant Enis Kajević, attorney Damir Lekić, proposed that the trial be postponed because he submitted a proposal to the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) for the conclusion of a plea agreement.

As we learn, a sentence of six months has been proposed. The defense proposed that the sentence be served in a residential facility, that a fine be paid as an ancillary punishment, and that Kajević pay a certain amount to humanitarian causes.

Special Prosecutor Ivan Medojević said in his address to the court that the proposal was submitted to the SDT tonight after midnight.

"As it is conceived, I would not comment on it now. The court will have the prosecutor's position until the next main trial hearing," said Medojević.

The High Court Council in Podgorica confirmed the indictment filed by the SDT against Milačić, Bulatović, Mujević, Đurić and Kajević for creating a criminal organization and cigarette smuggling.

"The subject of the indictment is the activities of a criminal organization organized by the accused Mujević, with an unknown person, whose members became the other accused, with the aim of transporting untaxed cigarettes across the customs line from the Free Customs Zone of the Port of Bar, while avoiding customs supervision measures, and selling and distributing them, in Podgorica, Rožaje, Serbia and Kosovo. Therefore, in the period from November 2019 to March 2021, the accused, by failing to pay customs duties, excise duties and taxes on 42.827 packages of smuggled cigarettes, obtained illegal profits for the criminal organization and caused damage to the injured party, Montenegro, in the amount of at least 33.182.320,05 euros," the SDT previously stated.