from Budva Mileta Ojdanic he connected the fugitive policeman Ljub Milović with the captain of a ship sailing to Australia, in order to arrange with him the smuggling of cocaine to that continent.
This stems from correspondence from the once-protected Sky application, which is owned by Vijesti.
Analysis of the conversation shows that Ojdanić was with this Latin American, who wrote hidden behind a nickname. MAXIMO, in an illegal business since 2019, and he connected Milović with him in January 2021.
After months of arranging and organizing the smuggling of tons of cocaine from South America to numerous European ports with Milović, the Budvanin informed the then police officer on January 14, 2021, that his associate could also "work" in Australia.
"He says the capo can work without any problems. I said I don't know the details, neither when nor the amount, nor anything, but this is a good friend of mine, and you know I have a lot of people, I don't want to take up space, but if you want me to connect you, then talk and work, I'll be glad if you can earn, the same as if I were you. I just know that it could be interesting because it's Australia. He says ok no problem, thank you very much, I'm just really sick at the moment and I can hardly talk, just recover a little, God willing, in a week I'll be better", he sends to Milović hidden behind a nickname future.
After a few days, a man from Kavkaz with a police badge reminds him to check if he can connect with Maxim.
"When can you connect with your friend and talk about Australia, brother?" Ojdanić then sends a message to the captain, who replies that he can do it right away.
"I can do it now. No problem, my energy is already 100%," he wrote to Ojdanić and answered in the affirmative when asked by the Budvanian whether he could forward the second one to his Sky...
"Great. He's a very, very good man of his word. I guarantee him 100% to you," Ojdanić sends him.
"Okay, brother. You know that what can be done, we do. If it can't be done, we don't do it. He can be completely calm, my brother, and you know that," Maximo sends him.
Ojdanić then states that he connects them because he knows that "everything is just fine."
"Great and good luck ️ I'm always here for anything you need, brother... A friend for work in Australia sent you an invitation, if you can accept please," Milović sent and received a reply from Maxim that he had already accepted.
Ojdanić tells the police officer who Montenegrin investigators have been searching for since July 2022 that everything is being arranged with the cap, forwarding him correspondence that he is already ready...
Zvicer: We work together
Milović immediately forwarded the correspondence with Ojdanić to the head of the Kavač clan - Radoje Zvicer, informing him that this Budva native also "does business" with Australia, to which the Kotor native replied:
"We work together"...
From the correspondence with the "cap" it appears that they are discussing organizing delivery by sea and air routes, mentioning the delivery of goods "on the water", the ship, the crew, the sailors, the ports and airports, as well as the prices, percentages, quantities and logistics between locations such as Guajira, Santa Marta, Ecuador, Panama, Brazil, the Netherlands and Spain.
Contacts related to customs, companies and transport are also mentioned, including the possibility of goods being delivered "in hand" and further transported via ship or plane.
“Some friends have a big ship… a full crew and logistics,” explains Maximo.
He also explains the model by which deliveries of 1.500 to 2.000 kilograms would be made, but specifies that it can only be done by the ton at a time, and through people who, as he claims, have a large ship, a complete crew, and logistics.
He states that the material would be handed over to them "into their hands", that they would then "do everything", and that the goods would be loaded "on the water", that is, by ship.
"...As before, with the sailors"...
He also negotiates with members of the Montenegrin cartel about splitting costs and profits "50-50", explaining that the investment is $1.850 per kilogram and that the "commission" for transport and extraction is 25 percent...
He also explains to them that he has contacts at Schiphol Airport, but also in companies that work with fruit, vegetables and fish...
A conversation between Zvicer and Milović from late 2020 shows that multiple cells of the Balkan drug cartel smuggled cocaine from South America to Australia, and that the "deal" they were arranging with Maxim was not the first they had done.
On November 24, 2020, a resident of Kotor asks a police officer if he has a fishing boat “to add 100 miles of goods.”
"That ship to Australia," he explains.
"They threw it in Australia, is there anyone to pick it up there," Milović replies.
He receives an affirmative answer from Zvicer:
"He has everything," he writes to him, then explains:
"30 days. 100-150 nm from land, I said, give us a trajectory with coordinates."
The policeman then asks if they should secure the goods, so the clan boss writes to him: "Yes, everything"...
"100-150 nm are probably international, we'll know on the 26th of July, in a few days," he writes to him.
"Ok, when they announce it, let's watch," Milović replies.
New soldiers
In mid-April, the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) launched a new phase of the investigation against nine more people suspected of being part of an organized criminal group that, according to the prosecutor's office, was formed by Vaso Ulic, Radoje Switzerland Slobodan Kascelan, whose activities were dismantled in the extensive police-prosecutorial operation "General".
According to information from "Vijesti", this is a new prosecution case involving Ljubo Milović, Mileta Ojdanić, Dragan Knezevic, Radoje Zivkovic, Milan Vujotić, Nikola Spasojevic, Petar Lazovic, Ratko Zivkovic i Milan Knezevic.
Special prosecutors are charging the nine with creating a criminal organization and smuggling around 900 kilograms of cocaine - from South America to Europe and Australia.
The SDT announced that with the issuance of the order, criminal proceedings were initiated against nine defendants.
"The subject of the criminal proceedings is the activities of a criminal organization organized by the now-defendants VU, RZ and SK, whose members have also become defendants, with the aim of smuggling the narcotic drug cocaine from South America to Europe and Australia, as well as the smuggling of 903 kg of that type of drug in June 2020, which was prevented by the Australian detection authorities. The Special State Prosecutor's Office previously filed indictments against three organizers of the criminal organization and 22 of its other members for the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization and several criminal offenses of unauthorized production, possession and distribution of narcotic drugs, which have been confirmed and for which the main trial is underway before the High Court in Podgorica," the prosecutor's office, headed by the Chief Special Prosecutor, announced. Vladimir Novović.
The first part of Operation "General" was implemented in July 2023, when Montenegrin security services, in cooperation with international partners, launched a coordinated operation to arrest and collect evidence against members of the criminal network associated with Ulić and Zvicer.
The action at that time marked the beginning of the dismantling of the wider structure of the group, and investigators obtained key evidence through decrypted Sky and Anom communications.
At that time, the order to conduct an investigation, and later the indictment for smuggling 2,5 tons of cocaine, included Radoje Zvicer, Vaso Ulić and his son. Nikola, Dragan Pavlicevic, Vuk Vulević, Radula Božović, Ivan Delic, Viktor and Leon Dresaj, Milo Bozovic, Damir Mandic, Vjekoslav Lambulić, Veselin Paro Pavličić, Vukan (Vinetu) Čoković Matić, Mileta Božović, Radomir Dobriša, Petar Miranović, Marinko Prelevic i Radovan Pantović.
"Vijesti" reported at the time that, in this international operation, investigators from the SDT and the Special Police Department (SPO) had been working closely for months with the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (EUROPOL), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Australian Federal Police (AFP).
According to "Vijesti", this is the first time that the US DEA and FBI have directly participated in an investigation with the Special Police Department.
The newspaper's interlocutor said at the time that Montenegrin investigators in that case were provided with an extensive package of intelligence on the illegal activities of members of the criminal group who had been under a kind of surveillance for a long time... It was also explained that the list of those arrested was not final and that there were connected persons, and that "the investigation should go to the very top of the state and the previous government"...
Meanwhile, in addition to the original 19 defendants - special prosecutors for investigation and criminal offenses have indicted Slobodan Kašćelan, who they accuse of being one of the heads of an organized crime group that smuggled cocaine on a transnational level.
Recently, the High Court panel confirmed the indictment against five more alleged members of the drug cartel - Christian Dresaj, Novak Joksimović, Rajko Smolović and two other defendants - A. Š. i D. K.
They are accused of being part of a criminal group responsible for smuggling two and a half tons of cocaine.
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