Milačić: We doubt Katnić's official version

The president of Prava Montenegro, Marko Milačić, said that in that party they doubt the "official version" of the chief special prosecutor Milivoj Katnić regarding the case of the seizure of around half a ton of cocaine.

"After yesterday's press conference, it is clear the intention of SDT Milivoj Katnić to divert the investigation into the smuggling of 15 million euros worth of cocaine found in Voli into the case of planting a 'coward's egg' by an anonymous forwarder in the original packages of the Derby company, Mr. Izet Rastoder, and all this in the Voli company container of Mr. Dragan Bokan," Milacic announced.

He said that Katnić, before continuing with the "further tirade" that "someone sketched and made possible for him", will have to answer several important questions "that you kept silent and led in the direction of general 'modus operandi', unknown perpetrators in Ecuador and Slovenia (at least in Montenegro), and the responsibility of some ordinary freight forwarder who is engaged in one way or another by the same Voli."

"1. How is it that in that, as you said, in pitch darkness, for nine days in a row, before customs and scanner control, in the place as you said "where anyone can enter", in the Carnin free zone, none of the alleged "NN" coasters cocaine didn't even try to take the cargo worth 15 million euros?

2. In this regard, how is it that no one was interested in securing their 15 million at any cost, and all this in the world of crime where, according to your investigations, heads are lost for several tens of thousands of euros? In addition to this fact, the alleged falsified seal looks like a pacifier to deceive children, but also all citizens of Montenegro.

3. How is it that the drug shipment was in complete darkness for nine days, that nothing was - as you said - covered by intelligence, that it already succeeded three times last year - as you said - and now, the fourth time, no one has didn't even try to get his 15 million euros worth of cocaine?

4. Mr. Katnić, if you were involved in cocaine smuggling, apart from publicly praising it, and if you were a witness of all the previous months of great public talk and the enormous public light thrown on the free customs zone - and about the smuggling of cigarettes, and everything else - would you decided to pick up cocaine right there?

5. How is it, Mr. Katnić, that you did not show a single picture of the tracking, transshipment and other actions that you say you took?

6. How do you explain Mr. Katnić that Voli concluded a contract with a forwarding agency, but only an ordinary employee is to blame for everything? What kind of one-man OKG is that and finally, who hired that freight forwarder if not the companies of Mr. Bokan and Mr. Rastoder?

7. Please, Mr. Katnić, before you continue mocking the prosecution and the public, tell us what kind of security monitoring of the shipment was discovered in the end, not by the security guards who are allegedly involved, but by ordinary citizens in the middle of the Volija logistics center?

8. Mr. Katnić, in order to - more in the capacity of Voli's spokesman than the Special State Prosecutor - defend with all your might the one in whose premises half a ton of cocaine was found, you scandalously dared to resort to total, flat constructions where you exclusively informed the public that the about three tons of cocaine disappeared from the free customs zone.

You concluded that based on the fact that on three occasions about three tons of goods were missing. How do you know and what right do you have to claim in front of the entire Montenegrin public that it is cocaine, when you don't have a single piece of evidence for that? Maybe it's a weapon, maybe a skunk, maybe bananas, maybe an onion. In this way, in addition to inadvertently defending a private company, you are spreading public panic.

9. Mr. Katnić, yesterday you waved Voli's letters that he sent to institutions to check containers for that company, which is not proof of anyone's purity, but could be quite the opposite. For the sake of the citizens, isn't it more than indicative that the last letter arrived on January 11, the very day when goods were scanned and cocaine was discovered by the democratized and freed Revenue and Customs Administration, and Montenegro is small and reports flow quickly.

10. Mr. Katnić, yesterday you did not give an even remotely satisfactory answer to the question why the reaction of the competent institutions in the cases of Budimir Krstović and Dragan Bokan is very different? "Krstović, in whose warehouse a ton and a half of cocaine was found, is in custody together with his daughter, and Bokan, in whose warehouse half a ton of cocaine was found, has not even been questioned," Milačić said in the statement.

Milacic assessed that the press conference "seemed forced".

"Thanks to your political engagement at the place of SDT, we have come to a situation where we know what happens when such a quantity of drugs disappears. If someone could ignore the loss of so much money, and in that world even hundreds of times smaller amounts are the subject of a merciless fight, then surely did not, without trying to preserve it, put his own life in question Finally, it is strange that in your press conference held two days after the seizure, which seemed forced, there was not a single photo of the tracking, the collection of the shipment, the picture of the opening of the container, the police raid , urgent notification to the public with all the details of the action and all that in Montenegro and everywhere follows actions of this scale. It seems as if you hid behind Mrs. Petričević, who apparently gave the key information about the shipment behind her back, which you are now putting in some unnatural and illogical context."

"The real Montenegro, based on all of the above, openly doubts the official version presented yesterday about half a ton of cocaine found in the Volija warehouse, so we expect personnel changes in the prosecutor's office as soon as possible so that the citizens of Montenegro are safe and that Montenegro moves in the right way in the fight against organized crime," Milačić concluded in the announcement.