The Special State Prosecutor's Office is preparing to issue a new warrant for Russian citizen Eduard Šišmakov, suspected of preparing terrorist attacks in Podgorica.
According to the reliable information of "Vijesti", the prosecutor's office headed by Milivoje Katnić will again ask the Russian prosecutor's office to interrogate that member of the Russian military intelligence service.
The same source said that the special prosecutors will ask their colleagues from Russia to attend the hearing of Shismakov.
Katnić's prosecution recently established that a few months before the coup attempt in Montenegro, last October, Šišmakov received a Russian passport with the false surname Širokov.
The Russian Prosecutor's Office announced yesterday that it is considering the possibility of helping Montenegro in the investigation of the attempted coup, the Russian agency RIA Novosti reported under the label urgent.
So far, SDT has only received confirmation from the Russian authorities that Eduarad Shirokov and Vladimir Popov are their citizens.
The Russian authorities did not respond to other requests for international legal assistance, which were sent to them by the SDT four months ago.
The day before yesterday, the Russian embassy in Podgorica told the Interfax agency that they had not received a request from the Montenegrin authorities for assistance in the investigation of the coup d'état.
It was explained to "Vijesta" from SDT that international legal assistance is not requested through embassies, but through communication between the ministries of justice of the two countries.
"The State Prosecutor's Office of Russia is currently considering, in accordance with the established procedure, the request of the competent authorities of Montenegro to provide legal assistance in connection with the investigation of the events referred to in the request of Montenegro", the information service of the Prosecutor's Office of Russia told RIA.
Katnić previously said that some Russian state structures were behind the coup attempt on October 16 last year.
"It is up to the Russian state authorities to investigate which state structures are involved and to certainly initiate proceedings for such wrongdoings," said Katnić.
He labeled Šišmakov as the leader of an organized criminal group that planned chaos in front of the Montenegrin Assembly.
Earlier, he announced that it was proven before the High Court that the Democratic Front was involved in the coup, and that it has yet to be determined whether the leaders of that political group, Andrija Mandić and Milan Knežević, knew about the organization of the bloodshed.
The two will be questioned today in the Special State Prosecutor's Office. Due to attempted terrorism, 20 Serbian citizens were arrested in Podgorica the night before last year's parliamentary elections. The former commander of the Serbian Gendarmerie Bratislav Dikić was then handcuffed.
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