Former police special forces Marinko Banović i Vladimir Bajčeta They learned at the end of 2020 that they were under secret surveillance, stating in correspondence that they received this information from a certain Enisa...
"Vijesti" has no information whether this is the then assistant director of the Police Directorate. Enis Baković, and the newspaper expects answers from the Special State Prosecutor's Office as to whether they have determined this.
On November 6, 2020, Bajčeta was warned by his godfather, hidden behind the Skype pin DLSROP, that they were allegedly under secret surveillance measures.
An analysis by "Vijesti" shows that Marinko Banović wrote from that pin.
The two had been in intensive communication for months - ordering cocaine from each other, discussing a strategy for how to save themselves after the double murder in Veruša...
It was Bajčeta, that night around 20 pm, who began the communication with the question - "What are you doing, grandma?"...
The Podgorica native replies that he just finished training, and asks: "You, godfather?", after which the interlocutor reveals that they are on the mend...
"Home. They put us on trial, you know. Not a word to anyone," writes DLSROP, and Bajčeta briefly replies - "OK, godfather."
"Nobody knows, Enis called his brother and told him"...
Bajčeta again briefly answers - "Brothers", after which the former police special agent continues:
"Creating a criminal organization to commit murders. And I told you, they participated and are in trouble. They want to be safe. You just need to talk about them in the nicest way possible. Maybe they'll even come to our house for a search. Don't say a word to anyone, so we know we're on the alert. And use a regular phone and you know what to say. That's where we have the advantage. Just don't tell anyone that we're on the alert and that's it," Banović sends.
They are talking about this about twenty days after they were killed on Veruša. Nemanja Prelevic (28) and Danilo Pekovic (20), which they talked about almost every day.
Prelević and Peković were liquidated on October 17th, and a day later, during a conversation about it, Bajčeta commented that no one knew they were "up there"...
"I don't know anything yet, that little Peko was with him, but he's not reporting to anyone. If they didn't arrest him too, and yet I can't imagine going up. We'll find out everything, I wanted to go up. No one knew he was up there, neither did I, nor Željko. But Mirko tells me to wait for me to come. We'll see, well, I don't know. Let's see what happened, then we'll manage, it's certain that he won't hunt us, but there will be prey, I swear...", writes Banović.
He then continues to tell his godfather that Prelević told him "to go outside and stay longer", but also states that they still don't know if Peković was killed or disappeared...
"Who knows, everything seems illogical to me. I'm waiting for them to call me and Željko went upstairs. Too many people. It looks like they were killed, there are shell casings all around the house"...
"That's it then," Bajčeta replies, and Banović continues:
"Well, I don't know. He was shot in the house, they were both shot in the head. Chaos. They had 100 percent good logistics. I don't understand this at all, both of them were shot in the head. I think the same thing, they must have had tough logistics. I don't know anything yet, I'll know tomorrow. It seems they entered from the back of the house. They broke through the fence and got in, but it's strange to me that they weren't shot in the chest, only in the head... Be careful and don't move, these guys are crazy. I can't imagine they'd kill over a fight," he writes.
Bajčeta then replies that he had already warned him:
"Brother, I told you from the start," he writes, and Banović continues.
"Well, you're a grandma, but who would hope he'd kill. For what? This is a joke, madness. You believe I don't even remember what she told you. I heard that from Nemanja about me, that he knows all my vehicles, that that Nenad Mi***ić followed me. I can't believe he's so crazy," he writes.
Bajčeti replies that the person they are talking about is a friend of Vuk Vulević.
"He's their head of PG," Bajčeta sends and informs the godfather what he learned about the liquidation on Veruša - that a Kalash (Kalashnikov) is mentioned, that Prelević's fuses were removed and that he left the house...
"It's all strange to me. I think it's impossible to do something like that without wearing a uniform," he notes on October 18, 2020, around midnight...
The fight preceded the crime.
The double murder on Veruša was preceded by a fight in Podgorica's City Quarter, in which Mark Zekić On August 5, 2020, you caused serious injuries, about which the police at the time remained silent for months.
That the main convicted double murderer was brutally beaten, which is why he made the decision to liquidate Prelević, was discovered after Montenegrin investigators were provided with communications that several criminals had conducted via the once-protected Sky application...
According to evidence submitted from France, Zekić informed the other now convicted persons about the conflict he had in the "Garden" bar via the Sky app and told them that he had made the decision to kill Prelević.
"From further communications from 5 August 2020, Zekić states that he made the decision to take the life of Prelević Nemanja precisely because of the fight he had with him and with Bajčeta Vladimir and Banović Marinka in the 'Garden' restaurant. In these messages, Zekić states that he had a gun with him that he left behind and at the same time inquires from the other defendants about where Prelević lives, what vehicle he drives, and where his house is located, or what street the injured party's house is on," the indictment states.
As early as a day later, the defendants allegedly started exchanging photos of the street where Prelevic lived.
Bajčeta and Banović testified in the proceedings - the first claimed that there was no physical conflict, and then that there was, and the second that there was none...
"It wasn't a conflict. That day I was sitting at the table with Bajčet and Prelević. At the other table was a guy. There were words: 'Why are you looking at me'; No, you're looking at me'. That was my conversation with that guy. I said it was a misunderstanding. I forgot the details. Zekić was looking at us. I remember we exchanged a few words about who was looking at whom. I can't remember who asked who first. I said it was a misunderstanding. Zekić asked me if I could come to him for a second. Prelević joined our discussion, who mentioned something, like leave this fool alone. They fought. There was a fight and that was it. We separated them," said Banović.
Marinko Banović was dismissed from the Montenegrin police force after his arrest in Belgrade in 2002, when he was handcuffed with 17 kilograms of marijuana. He was also arrested in Podgorica in August 2017, after police found two sniper rifles and ammunition in the Defender he was driving.
Bajčeta left the Montenegrin police more than a decade ago...
Zekić sentenced to 40 years...
For the double murder, Zekić, who is on the run, and Miomir Đukić were sentenced to long-term prison sentences of 40 years each, as well as 15 years each for the attempted murder of Sujković Kenan, Sujković Ismet, and Kastrat Mirza in Berane in November 2021.
The court then sentenced them to a combined sentence of 40 years in prison each. Defendant Mirčeta M. Mihajlović (45) was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the criminal offense of aggravated murder by aiding and abetting the murder of Prelević and Peković in Veruša on October 17, 2020.
The defendants Goran Milašinović, Dragan Biletić, Zlatko Drašković and Branislav Ivanović were each sentenced to ten years for murder by aiding and abetting. In the explanation of the convicting part of the verdict, the judge said that the Sky communication was valid evidence obtained from France. She stated that Zlatko Drašković followed Nemanja Prelević and studied his habits, while Mihajlović carried a rifle in his backpack and handed it over to Zekić and Đukić.
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