Pljevljak Dusko Saric i Milan Vučinić from Podgorica this afternoon should be heard before the criminal non-trial panel of the High Court in Belgrade, which will decide whether there are still grounds for the detention of those two Montenegrin citizens, "Vijesti" was told.
Yesterday, shortly before noon, Šarić surrendered to the Belgrade police, accompanied by his defense attorney, a lawyer Radoslav Baćović. Less than an hour later at the same police station, with a lawyer Bojana Ječmenica, Vučinić also came.
Baćović told "Vijesti" that his client did not give a statement to the police, but that he would do so before the investigating judge.
He also explained that after voluntarily making himself available to the judicial authorities of Serbia, Šarić was taken to a special detention unit.
Ječmenica's lawyer told "Vijesti" that Vučinić will be heard according to the proposal for detention, which has been in force since before.
He also explained that Vučinić's detention was ordered earlier due to the risk of escape, influence on witnesses and the risk of repeating the criminal offense, and that the judge will decide whether these grounds for detention still stand.
Šarić and Vučinić are accused of being part of the criminal group Pljevljak and Duško's older brother, Darko Sarić.
The three of them and 12 other people identified as members of the Pljevljak criminal group were accused of several serious crimes, including attempts to kill a witness of an associate of the Serbian Prosecutor's Office. Nebojša Joksović and planting explosives under the car Goran Nikolašević.
Indictment
The Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime (TOK) there accuses Darko Šarić that in early 2020, while he was in custody in Belgrade, he founded a criminal group and transmitted orders to his associates through the once protected Sky application.
The list of accused includes Dejan Lazarevic, Bojan Stanojković, Danilo Odovic, Aleksandar Boskovic, Nikola Spasojevic, Danilo Stojanovic, Milutin Radovanović, Dusko Mirkovic, Stefan Andrejic, Marko Vukic, Uroš Radovanović which used to be the last name Misic i Arso Saric.
According to the indictment, the elder Šarić formed a criminal group with the aim of liquidating the crown witness, an associate of TOK, in the proceedings against him before the Special Court in Belgrade.
Allegedly, the backup plan of that criminal group was that if Joksović was not killed, they would discredit that witness so that he would lose his associate status. The Prosecution claims that, according to that plan, the defendants wanted to show that Joksović continued to commit criminal acts after receiving the status, i.e. that he was preparing the murder of another witness in the proceedings against Šarić. Goran Nikolašević.
They are accused of hiring two people, including the fan Uroš Radovanović, formerly Mišić, to place explosives under Nikolašević's car in Valjevo, and on that occasion, more material damage was caused.
TOK states that the members of the criminal group who were members of the Serbian police, following the instructions of the organizers, directed the investigation towards Joksović and thus convinced Nikolašević to file a criminal complaint against him.
According to the indictment, they are charged with two assassination attempts on Joksović - at the "Drina Regatta" and in Belgrade...
"The defendant Darko Šarić ordered the members of an organized criminal group to kill Joksović on the territory of Belgrade or Bajina Bašta, where the conditions are created for it, and in such a way that at the beginning of March 2020, the defendant Milan Vučinić, in accordance with the order and his task, using encrypted phone with the Sky ECC application installed, informed Darko Šarić that the injured Joksović will be a participant in the 'Drina Regatta' event in July 2020 and that this is an opportunity for the injured Joksović to take his own life," the indictment reads.
Prosecutors claim that a still unidentified person, whose nickname is Kurjak, was hired for that liquidation. Allegedly, that perpetrator acquired a weapon with an optical sight, but also another perpetrator whose nickname is the Engineer.
The indictment states that the plan failed when the event was postponed, but that the elder Šarić asked for it to be implemented in Belgrade and tasked lawyer Lazarevic to find the executor.
Police officers sold information
Members of the MUP of Serbia, who are among the defendants, are accused by TOK of selling Sarić's team information about the investigations being conducted against the accused members of the group.
In the courtroom, Darko Šarić previously denied the criminal acts for which he was accused, adding that the entire indictment boils down to the prosecutor's claim that he "wrote something" through Sky, "without any proof that I wrote it."
"I am absolutely not the author of those messages, nor did I use the phone during that period. I am defending myself from something illusory, from fiction," he said in his defense...
He also said that the indictment looks like a script for a movie, that he does not know some of the accused, and that he did not exchange messages with those he did know via "Sky".
The accusations were denied by Lazarevic, the accused policemen, but also others...
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