Bogdanović: Šaranović to continue cleaning the police of compromised personnel

Boris Bogdanović, head of the parliamentary group and secretary general of the Democrats, called on Interior Minister Danilo Šaranović to "urgently continue with the cleansing" of the Police Directorate of what he says are compromised personnel.

"These days we are faced with the fact that the former top of the state was deeply connected to the top of crime. And not metaphorically, but proven, intercepted and sentenced. Today, the former director of the Police Administration, Slavko Stojanović, was convicted of cigarette smuggling. Not based on assumptions, not, as they claimed, based on political persecution, but based on evidence and, most importantly, based on his own confession. He admitted that he participated in smuggling. And he admitted that he did it under pressure. The question that is now burning before every citizen of this country is: whose pressure was it," Bogdanović announced.

"And while the answers are coming, one by one, evidence is emerging that state affairs, political decisions and even the defense of the Law on Freedom of Religion are in fact being conducted from the underground, including from communications between the leaders of the Kavač clan and the highest security structures. In intercepted conversations on the SKY application, we see how Ljubo Milović, a fugitive police officer, reports to Radoje Zvicer, the head of the Kavač clan, about how Zoran Lazović is visiting councilors of the former regime in the north to prevent them from going over to the other side. We see how they analyze the political situation, processions, laws, and everything that analysts, politicians and public officials would discuss in a normal country, not drug lords," added the Democratic MP.

But, as he said, Montenegro was "not a normal country" at the time, but a "hostage state".

"Today we know, and here we have evidence, that Zoran Lazović protected the regime and organized crime at the same time. And not only him, but also the parliamentary majority and the flight attendants, councilors and everything that held the former regime together. That is why it is a lie that he did not have influence on the parliamentary majority. He was not its operational and political guarantor. In that sense, it is particularly worrying that even today there are certain paid media outlets and political parties that are trying to relativize these monstrous connections. To justify the suspended police officers, to present them as innocent victims, and thus to defend the collapsed structure of a mafia state. That is why I call on the Minister of the Interior to urgently continue to purge the Police Directorate of compromised personnel. To not back down in the face of the clamor of the media machinery and political protectors, because now more than ever, we will either have a state, or we will have the remnants of a criminal regime," the statement reads.