Part of the top-level Kavača cell of the Balkan drug cartel Milan Vujotić i Radoje Žuti Živković they resented their associates from the Podgorica branch of that criminal team Radoslav Gil Stanišić and his cousin To Vidoja Stanisic, for hiring "subcontractors" for the "job" they were entrusted with - eliminating their rival Igor Krstović.
Krstović, who investigators identify as the leader of the Zeta branch of the Skaljara cell of the Balkan drug cartel, was seriously wounded on January 28, 2020 in Zeta.
Vidoje Stanišić and are already on trial before the Podgorica High Court for the attempted murder of Dragisa Bulatović.
The two were arrested in the first weeks of the investigation - Bulatović on February 15, 2020, and Stanišić on February 28 of the same year. On the same day that Bulatović was arrested, the police also questioned Radoslav Stanišić, but he was not detained at that time.
More than six years later, at the end of August 2026, the investigation took a new direction.
On the orders of the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT), officers of the Special Police Department (SPO) arrested Radoslav and Saša Stanišić due to suspicion that they were part of a criminal team that was supposed to kill Krstović on the orders of Vujotić and Živković.
SDT Podgorica Raska i Radmila Džankić and Rožajec Mersudin Čalaković suspects of having committed a criminal offense, assisting the perpetrator after the criminal offense has been committed.
That the organizers of this criminal group are angry about the "expansion" of the team emerges from correspondence from the once protected Sky application, which investigators analyzed...
Among the many messages are those that, according to the claims of special prosecutors, Živković sent on March 13, 2020 to the youngest of the Stanišić brothers, now the defendant Saša.
"...So, Vidoje and Gile had to finish that according to the agreement, you understand, because I insisted that they be helped, you understand that they should take 150-200 thousand and live like boys, to kill that crow, that's the easiest job in the world for them, that job wasn't worth 30 thousand, but I insisted that they be helped so they could live..."
Because of this, as well as the messages that Vujotic sent in the days before and after, special prosecutors, as they state in the files, drew the unequivocal conclusion that the two were the organizers of a criminal organization.
"It is obvious that the suspected organizers personally recruited only the suspect Radoslav Stanišić and the accused Vidoje Stanišić as members of the criminal organization, in order to deprive the injured party of their life and create a decision among them to deprive the injured party of his life, which they accepted, and assigned them roles and tasks, which is especially clear when considering everything stated above, and especially the quoted voice message from the suspect Živković to the suspect Saša Stanišić," it is written in the files that "Vijesti" has access to.
According to the same documents, the cousins Radoslav and Vidoje Stanišić themselves recruited Saša Stanišić, the accused Dragiša Bulatović and the now deceased Saša Klikovac.
From the communication, however, it appears that the alleged organizers did not object to this as long as the "job" was sloppily done.
"...The agreement was for them, for the two of them to finish it, that's how it was. Then there was this - that, I ask who... And then it turned out to be Dragiša, but Dragiša said not to tell anyone. Listen, Dragiša said not to tell anyone. So, Vidoje and Gile were supposed to finish it according to the agreement... And look what Vidoje did with his smarts. It's lucky I told him off the bat to do that, he wanted to reward you all from home, you and your father and everyone," is one of the voice messages that Živković sent to Saša Stanišić that day.
Not long after, he summed it up in a text message: "The job was for Vidoje and Gil"...
Vujotić also wrote to the youngest Stanišić about the same topic, a few months after the attempted murder of Krstović.
"Terrible. Why did they drag Dragiša into the act, it's a shame," he wrote on June 10, 2020, and then added:
"That's what Vidoje and Gile were supposed to do."
Special prosecutors and SPO investigators conclude that the Stanisic brothers were chosen for the job from messages in the Sky group that included Živković, Vujotić, and other team members.
"We are waiting for these Stanisic people, they should quickly yell at Igor," Živković wrote, according to the files, on January 20, 2020.
Eight days later, after Krstović was wounded, the same user reported to the group:
"They killed Igor Krstović"... "Gile fired 30 bullets into him"... "He was driving"... "They're going to burn the car"... "I said burn everything."
"From all the cited communications of the suspects and accused, when drawing conclusions about their roles and tasks, it can be concluded that the suspects Radoslav and Saša Stanišić and the accused Vidoje Stanišić and Dragiša Bulatović are co-perpetrators of the criminal offense of attempted aggravated murder, in relation to the injured party Igor Krstović," the court documents state.
Živković is reportedly in a Turkish prison, where he is supposed to be serving a life sentence for the murder of the Skaljari leader Jovan Vukotic. Montenegrin police have been searching for Vujotic for years.
Accusations
Radoslav and Saša Stanišić, as well as Podgorica residents Raško and Radmila Džankić, were arrested at the end of August by officers of the Special Police Department in an operation carried out on the orders of the Special State Prosecutor's Office.
After they were deprived of their liberty, the SDT announced that they had initiated criminal proceedings against several individuals accused of the criminal offenses of creating a criminal organization, attempted aggravated murder, and assisting the perpetrator after the crime was committed.
From the prosecutor's office headed by the Chief Special Prosecutor Vladimir Novović It was then announced that Radoslav Stanišić and Saša Stanišić were suspected of having attempted to kill Krstović on the orders of Radoje Živković Žuti and Milan Vujotić.
It was then explained that an order had been issued to conduct an investigation, and that criminal proceedings had been initiated against Živković and Vujotić for the criminal offenses of creating a criminal organization and aggravated murder by incitement, against the Stanišić brothers also for creating a criminal organization and attempted aggravated murder, and against the married couple Džankić and Rožajec Mersudin Čalaković for the criminal offense of assisting the perpetrator after the crime was committed.
"The subject of the investigation is the activities of a criminal organization organized by the defendants R. Ž. and MV, whose members became the defendants RS and SS, the defendants VS and DB, and the deceased SK in 2019 and 2020, with the aim of depriving the life of the injured party IK, a member of an opposing criminal organization, out of ruthless revenge and greed, at whom, on January 28, 2020, in Zeta, at least 28 projectiles were fired, causing him serious and life-threatening bodily injuries, but the death of the injured party was prevented by medical intervention," the SDT previously announced.
The statement also explained that the defendants Raško and Radmila Džankić and Mersudin Čalaković provided assistance to individual members of the criminal organization, after the commission of the criminal offense of attempted aggravated murder:
"By hiding them in their household, or by transferring them outside the border crossing from Montenegro to a neighboring country"...
Radoslav Gile Stanišić and Raško Džankić have already been mentioned in the court proceedings against Vidoje Stanišić and Dragiša Bulatović for the attempted murder of Krstović - as proposed defense witnesses.
Vidoje Stanišić claimed before the court that at the time Krstović was attacked in Zeta, he was staying at the house of his cousin Radoslav Stanišić, and that Raško Džankić and his wife were also there.
Bulatović also claimed to have an alibi, stating that at the time of the attack he was with the craftsmen who were building his house.
The prosecution, however, links Vidoje Stanišić and Bulatović to the attempted murder based on biological material extracted from an expert examination of the burned car, which investigators believe was used in the attack.
The first-instance verdict in that case has not yet been rendered, and Stanišić and Bulatović have been defending themselves from freedom since September 2023, because the court has not issued a decision within three years of the indictment being filed.
After almost 30 shots were fired at Krstović, the police questioned several people close to the Kavača criminal clan.
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