Two now-indicted police officers, fugitives Ljubo Milović and arrested Goran Stojanovic, in April 2020, they collected compromising information about the then chief of the Podgorica police Milovan Pavićević and his family, with the obvious intention of using this information, as they say, when it becomes useful.
They agreed on this after Stojanović informed Milović on April 15 that Pavićević, while he was the chief of the Nikšić police, had covered up a robbery at a Danilovgrad betting shop committed by a member of his family.
"Vijesti" expects a response from the Police Directorate on whether the information discussed between the then active inspector in the Danilovgrad Security Department and a member of the Sector for Combating Crime and Corruption, which was then headed by Zoran Lazović.
At one point, their conversation turned into a series of insulting and malicious comments about Pavićević's family.
"He slightly injured the worker with a knife. Then he stole 150 euros," Stojanović writes with a vomiting emoticon.
After that message, Milović asked about the details, the members of Pavićević's family, and the perpetrator of the crime.
"A girl named Burić, and her brother was a police officer... While Milovan was the chief of the NK," Stojanović, who was an officer in the Danilovgrad police station at the time, specifies.
Milović then admits that he did not know about the robbery and asks: "So what happened? Was he prosecuted?"
"And that worker's brother is now some kind of officer in the SAJ or PJP," writes Stojanović and replies that the case was covered up.
"It's not, it's not, it's been covered up," he sends to Milović.
That police officer was then interested in whether there were any documents in the Danilovgrad police, so Stojanović wrote to him:
"Milovan called and it ended."
"Are there any documents anywhere? Reports recorded," Milović sends him.
Stojanović tells him what he learned from his colleague: "I think the station, they didn't inform the prosecutors."
"Is there an event, is it registered somewhere?" Milović insists and gets an answer.
"I don't know anything... I heard that from the policeman who arrested him. But I can't offer him a bribe. Even though everyone knows that."
"Dig it up, you never know what it could be good for," the fugitive from Kavča with a police badge demanded at the time.
Stojanović wrote that on the night of the robbery, the officer on duty was Police Officer Peković and said:
"I'll try something," after which he makes very nasty comments about Pavićević's family.
Milović joined him in these qualifications, specifying the numerical status of that family, along with derogatory and insulting remarks and statements.
"I'll try to dig up something else," Stojanović writes to him.
Accusations
Milović and Stojanović dug up compromising information about their colleague during breaks in negotiations about smuggling tons of cocaine, withdrawing patrols from certain positions in Danilovgrad, so that the soldiers of the Kavač clan could carry out criminal tasks without hindrance.
Both are included in several indictments by the Special State Prosecutor's Office, which charges them with subordinating the police service to the interests of the Kavača cell of the Balkan drug cartel.
Milović has been on the run since July 2022. According to the SDT indictments, he was at the top of the criminal organization of Radoje Zvicer and Slobodan Kašćelan and actively participated in cocaine smuggling, including international drug trafficking rings.
He is charged with creating a criminal organization, unauthorized production, possession and distribution of narcotics, money laundering, abuse of official position...
During 2025 and 2026, Montenegrin security forces conducted multiple operations and searches at locations linked to Milović.
Another Kavčan resident with a police badge, Goran Stojanović, is facing charges from the Special State Prosecutor's Office that he abused his official position and disclosed confidential police information to members of organized crime groups.
He was arrested in March 2023 on charges of being part of a police drug cartel. He was released from custody in January 2024, but was arrested at the gates of the Supša prison due to charges in another case.
The Special State Prosecutor's Office charges the police inspector with committing the criminal offenses of creating a criminal organization and the continued criminal offense of abuse of official position, that is, that during 2020 and 2021 he became a member of the criminal group formed by Zvicer and Vujotić.
He was accused of receiving and carrying out orders from Vujotić through the Sky application, and he also accepted that he "created the conditions for the execution of crimes against life and limb" and in this way, according to the SDT, facilitated the criminal group's preparations for numerous attempts to liquidate high-ranking members of the Skaljar clan Jovan Vukotić i Jovan Jovanovic.
In one of the cases they are involved in, the SDT charges them with buying votes for a political bloc ahead of the 2020 parliamentary elections.
The SDT has labeled more than 20 people as members of the criminal organization they belong to, including 12 former and current police officers.
Pavicevic also accused
Meanwhile, Pavićević has also been arrested and charged, with special prosecutors accusing him of being a member of the so-called Grand Clan, one of whose bosses he is. Aleksandar Mijajlovic.
The SDT accuses the suspended senior police official of revealing secret information to Mijajlović, of actively participating in the pre-election activities of the Democratic Party of Socialists, of counting sure votes, but also of announcing to him what he would do on the eve of the elections "when the president had his final activities."
The President of Montenegro during that period was Milo Đukanović.
"I think that by the 30th, during the same week, when the president has his final activities in Pg, we will organize as many vehicles, flags, torches as possible...", Pavićević said in the message.
On Mijajlović's orders, the special prosecutors claim, he emptied the bars where songs about the defense of sacred places were being played, but also informed him when the controls would be carried out.
The then chief of the Podgorica police practically reported to Mijajlović, who did not hold a government position.
The Special State Prosecutor's Office reminded in the files that a civil servant may not, for the purpose of pursuing a private interest or the interests of another natural or legal person related to him, use state property and data at his disposal in the performance of his duties, but that police work is carried out with the aim of ensuring equal protection of security, rights and freedoms, applying the law and ensuring the rule of law.
Pavicevic recently testified
Pavićević, about whom colleagues were collecting compromising content because it might be useful to them, recently testified in the trial against the accused special prosecutors Miivoj Katnić and Saša Čađenović and former assistant director of the Police Administration Zoran Lazović.
He spoke about Milović and Zvicerović's associates from Belgrade - Veljko Belivuk and Marko Miljković, stating that they had operational information that an opposing organized crime group intended to kill them in early 2021 in Tivat, for 700.000 euros.
He also said then that the now arrested Belgrade police chief, Veselin Milić, informed him on January 16 of that year that they were aware that Belivuk and Miljković had booked a plane ticket for a flight from Belgrade to Tivat.
"He informed me of the flight time, date. I said that I would inform the head of the Department for Combating Organized Crime, Milorad Žižić, and my colleagues about it. The Belgrade Police Chief also sent me a message, which I forwarded to Žižić as the person responsible for the organized crime sector. Milić also called me on January 17 to ask whether the persons had been located and were under police surveillance, whether their movements and contacts were being monitored. I said that I was not territorially competent because it was Tivat, but that I had informed my colleagues," Pavićević said at the time.
He added that he learned that the opposing criminal group planned to liquidate Belivuk and Miljković after they left Montenegro, while they were checking in at the Tivat Airport building.
Pavicevic also claimed that Belivuk and Miljkovic only had a "notification of entry ban".
"This notification serves to monitor the movements and contacts of persons for whom there is operational information that they are members of the OKG or BIL."
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