Indictment against Baćović's group confirmed

The High Court Council in Podgorica confirmed the indictments of the Special State Prosecutor's Office, which were filed against the head of the criminal organization Radomir Boban Baćović from Nikšić and five other people, due to the existence of reasonable suspicion that they were involved in drug smuggling in the region a decade ago.

The indictment was confirmed against the defendants Baćović, Igor Vujošević, Alen Kurina, Miloš Lalević, Damir Frljučkić and Vjekoslav Lambulić.

The SDT states in a statement that the indictment against Baćović, Vujošević, Kurina, Lalević and Frljučkić was filed due to reasonable suspicion that, as co-perpetrators, they committed three criminal offenses: unauthorized production, possession and distribution of narcotic drugs, and against the accused Lambulić due to reasonable suspicion that he also committed the criminal offense of unauthorized production, possession and distribution of narcotic drugs, as co-perpetrators.

"The subject of the indictment is the activities of a criminal organization organized in 2015 by the accused RB, whose members included other accused and unknown persons, with the aim of committing the criminal offenses of murder, aggravated murder, kidnapping, unauthorized production, state control and trafficking of narcotic drugs, money laundering and others for which a prison sentence of four years or a more severe penalty may be imposed, for the purpose of acquiring illegal profit and power, in Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Hungary, Turkey, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy and other European countries," the SDT statement reads.

The SDT believes that the defendants, as members of a criminal organization, on three occasions, between September 23 and December 22, 2020, purchased marijuana in Albania for sale, brought it into Montenegro for sale, and transported it through Montenegro to Bosnia and Herzegovina, in order to sell it in Hungary via Croatia.

Baćović has been mentioned as one of the most important criminal names since the 90s, and Serbian media report that after the murder of Jovan Vukotić, he allegedly took over the leadership of the Škaljari criminal clan with Luka Bojović from Belgrade.

Danilovgrad residents Lalević and Vujošević were arrested and are in custody in Supca, and the indictment includes Subotica resident Alen Kurina, whom the media calls the head of the "Vojvodina clan."

Podgorica resident Vjekoslav Vjeko Lambulić has been in custody in Skopje since October 2023, for cocaine smuggling in another SDT case.