Šćepanović: UP has not received a response from Serbian authorities regarding Zvicera

The Police Directorate (UP) has not received a response from Serbian law enforcement agencies to date regarding the alleged leader of the Kavač clan, Radoje Zvicer.

This was stated today at a press conference of security sector leaders in the Government of Montenegro by the Director of the Police Department, Lazar Šćepanović.

As reported by the MINA agency, when asked whether they had requested information from the Serbian Security and Intelligence Agency (BIA) about their allegations that Radoje Zvicer was hiding in Montenegro, Šćepanović replied that the Police Department immediately requested a response from the Serbian law enforcement authorities and that they had not received it to date.

When asked whether he would check whether the 87 Serbian citizens who were returned from Tivat airport participated in extinguishing the fire on Luštica, he said that he did not know whether that group belonged to firefighters, stating that after landing, these individuals were placed under control in order to take operational and intelligence measures.

"Considering that among these 87 individuals are prominent fans who participated in numerous demonstrations, perpetrators of crimes against life and limb, connected to drug crimes, inheritance, and participants in certain motorcycle rallies, at this moment they are considered to be more threatening to internal security," said Šćepanović.

As he said, they were considered a threat because the EU-Western Balkans Summit was being held in Tivat, so their presence on the territory of Montenegro, predominantly in the southern region, would pose a threat to all-round security.

The Security Information Agency (BIA) of Serbia officially announced on June 3 that they had advised the country's President Aleksandar Vučić not to travel to Montenegro due to the high security risk.

They then said that according to their operational knowledge, Zvicer was in Montenegro.

Vučić subsequently came to Montenegro and participated in the EU-Western Balkans Summit, and at one of the press conferences he said that the 87 men who were returned to Belgrade by Montenegrin security services on April 3rd "were fighting the fire on Luštica and were coming as volunteers from Serbia to help them put out the fire."

Montenegrin security services announced on June 3 that a group of 87 Serbian citizens had been expelled because they posed a threat to national security. They said they had attended numerous public gatherings with high security risks, and that some of them had been registered for committing crimes and misdemeanors with elements of violence. The team, which arrived in Tivat by charter flight, did not want to answer police questions about the reason for their arrival in the country.