It should not surprise anyone if key figures of the former regime, faced with the loss of political power and the unraveling of criminal connections, together with the remaining criminal structures, try to provoke incidents in order to try to destabilize the current government and intensify demands for a reshuffle of the government, announced today Duško Stjepović, a member of parliament from the Democratic Montenegro party.
"The correspondence between Radoje Zvicer and Petar Lazović clearly illustrates how criminal clans, with the full insight and support of key figures from the security sector, acted to preserve the former regime and its key levers," Stjepović pointed out in a statement.
Vijesti reported today that the absolute leader of the Kavač clan, Radoje Zvicer, criticized the then police officer Petar Lazović the day after the parliamentary elections in August 2020, saying that he and his team had not done enough to keep the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) in power.
In that context, he asks him where his brain was when he went to Budva every weekend to beat people, but also why his father Zoran Lazović did not order Ivan Delić and the now deceased Branislav Mićunović to "flay"...
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"Zvicer's frustration over the insufficient activity of Lazović and his team in defending the authorities of the former regime testifies to the outrageous level of cooperation between the state and the mafia, with the direct involvement of the head of one of the most monstrous criminal clans. Evidence suggests that Lazović, with the support of his father, Zoran Lazović, a high-ranking official of the Police Directorate, was a key operative in this network. His justification before Zvicer that they had 'done their part' and brought in additional votes, and his admission that he would 'defend the state with blood', prove that the security apparatus was directly involved in political manipulation," Stjepović stated.
He asks why the structures of the former regime continue to strive to take control of the security sector?
"Because they fear that revealing all the details of this cooperation will expose the truth about their regime - a regime that used state institutions as a private army to preserve power and protect its own interests, not the interests of the citizens. Now, when these connections have been exposed, their every attempt to take over the security sector again is nothing more than a desperate attempt to protect what little power they still have," Stjepović said.
He said that "therefore, it should not surprise anyone if key figures of the former regime, faced with the loss of political power and the unraveling of criminal connections, together with the remaining criminal structures, try to provoke incidents in order to try to destabilize the current government and intensify demands for a reshuffle of power."
"These facts bring into focus the urgency of further strengthening the independence of the security sector and implementing rigorous reforms so that police and other security structures never again serve mafia interests. Montenegro must break with the practices of the past, where the political elite and criminal structures were inextricably linked, to the detriment of peace, justice and the security of citizens," said Stjepović.
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