Laković: Considering that Đukanović's security is made up of UP members, it will be checked whether there was any delay

Considering that the security of the former President of Montenegro, Milo Đukanović, is made up of members of the Police Administration (UP), it will be checked whether there were any delays, announced the President of the Parliamentary Committee for Security and Defense, Miodrag Laković.

He said this to journalists after the Committee for Security and Defense heard the director of the UP Zoran Brđanin and the director of the National Security Agency (ANB) Boris Milić about the actions of the security sector based on intelligence information that the assassination of the former president Milo Đukanović was being prepared.

Brđanin and Milić were heard in the Assembly in the room for consideration of classified materials.

Laković said that the board members showed great interest in the topic.

He said that, when it comes to the suspicion of endangerment, they do not have more information in relation to the degree of validity of the suspicion, but they received more information from the security services about the persons mentioned, that is, about some criminal groups, and that they "have a broader picture when it comes to the activities of the security services".

"We came to certain conclusions. We cannot handle all the data because they are secret. We listened to certain observations from various angles about the cooperation between the UP and ANB. I think that cooperation is at a satisfactory level," said Laković and added that he assumed that in look at the future of data exchange within the UP itself.

The committee heard Brđanin and Milić at the initiative of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS).

That party initiated the hearing in order, as they announced, to make sure that the competent security services are doing everything to protect the lives of protected persons.

On July 13, "Vijesti" announced that Đukanović had informed Montenegrin authorities that he had received information that an assassination attempt was being prepared against him.

"The former president received the above-mentioned information from certain international officials from the intelligence community, and with that information he informed the state authorities," Đukanović's office answered at the time when asked if anyone from the security sector informed him that his security was at risk, i.e. , that his assassination is being prepared.

It was not answered who and when Djukanović was given this information.