The Bjelopolska Higher State Prosecutor's Office collected the medical documentation of the victims of the police beating squad and ordered an expert report, and they also collected data from several organizational units of the Montenegrin police.
They did this in the case established on June 15 against several officers of the Police Administration for the criminal offense of torture.
Bjelopolje prosecutors are investigating the actions of the beating squad that operated within the former Department for Special Operational Support of the Sector for the Fight Against Organized Crime and Corruption (SPBOK), which at the time was headed by the assistant director of the UP, Zoran Lazović.
15 employees of the former Department who worked in the Sector of the then Assistant Director of Police Zoran Lazović are being processed by the prosecutor's office due to the suspicion that they "tortured and abused at least five arrested persons" during their work.
Deputy head of the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Bijelo Polje, Vladan Đalović, replied to "Vijesta" that they formed the case, which is in the investigation phase, after their colleagues from the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica delivered the files to them.
"...So far, numerous actions have been taken, i.e. the necessary data have been collected from certain health and other institutions, as well as data from several organizational units of the Police Administration, an order has been passed for an expert opinion by a medical expert, all with the aim of establishing the facts on the basis of which it will be assessed whether in the specific case there are elements of a criminal offense for which it is prosecuted ex officio", explained Đalović.
At the beginning of the summer, the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SST) delegated the cases of police torture and ill-treatment of those arrested in the period from 2020 to the beginning of 2021 to that prosecutor's office and their colleagues in the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica.
Along with the processed cases, they also delivered the SKY documentation, which arrived from Europol through international legal assistance, so, as "Vijesti" announced earlier, the prosecutors in the lower prosecutor's offices had the easier part of their job to make a decision and open an investigation.
At least 15 officers of the former Department who worked in the Sector of the then assistant police director Zoran Lazović are under investigation by the prosecution in the investigation part of the procedure, due to suspicion that during the performance of their work and police processing they "tortured and abused at least five arrested persons".
In March, the portal Libertass published the transcripts of SKY communication, in which it is stated that the members of that department were under the command of Mirko Banović, whose officers were Petar Lazović, Predrag Jestrović, Jugoslav Raičević, Slobodan Mićković, Ivan Đoković, Ivan Stamatović, Željko Radunović, Dražen Miranović, Sead Luboder, Vuk Šuković, Momo Mirković, Mirko Đukić, Milorad Mitrović and Neško Jaredić, judging by the findings of Europol, committed, witnessed or knew that criminal acts of torture were being committed against the arrested.
Those arrested for the most serious crimes tried to talk about the "feats" of that police squad, whose informal head was Petar Lazović, even while his father was in charge of the fight against the mafia, but the Police Directorate did not listen to them - they claimed that they would reward their officers for professional results.
At the end of January 2021, the then elder Lazović called the attempts of lawyers to inform the public about the abuse that their clients suffered from that beating squad and the filing of criminal charges because of it, an afterthought and asserted that he was sure that they did everything in accordance with the law.
His son Petar Lazović denied it, communicating through an encrypted application with the heads of the counterfeiting and drug cartels from Pljevlja - Radoj Zvicer and Darko Šarić.
The arrested security guard bragged to the criminals that he was torturing "enemies" - members of the organized criminal group Skaljar clan, that he was hunting them, and he also shared with them photos showing how he abused, humiliated and inhumanely treated the arrested.
He also informed them that he "kidnapped some of the skalars with the boys" after they were released from the police station after an informative interview...
The messages he exchanged with Zvicer and his fugitive colleague Ljubo Milović also show that he carried out their orders - to "skin" some of the arrested...
He sent photos of the batterers to Sarić, Zvicer and Milović
Most of the beating policemen who are being processed by the Bjelopolje and Podgorica prosecutor's offices are in the photos that Petar Lazović, hidden behind the nickname Junior, sent to criminals through the encrypted Sky application.
On some of them, you can see how, with their faces covered with masks, they are torturing the arrested, while on one they are all posing together on a yacht.
From the messages he sends to Pljevljak Darko Šarić, it follows that the fugitive police officer Ljubo Milović was with them on the yacht that day.
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