The non-trial criminal panel of the High Court in Belgrade, after the hearing, left in force the detention grounds on which Pljevljak Duško Šarić and Milan Vučinić from Podgorica were ordered to be detained, but in the next few days they will decide on the proposal of their defense attorneys to defend themselves against the charges on bail, they learn. "News".
Šarić and Vučinić surrendered to the police yesterday in the Serbian capital, after which they were taken to the detention unit.
In the High Court today, they did not plead to the charges against them, but will do so at the main hearing in the proceedings against the criminal group to which they allegedly belong.
Vučinić's defense attorney, lawyer Bojan Ječmenica, told Vijesti that he asked for the grounds for detention to be abolished - the danger of influencing witnesses and the danger of repeating the criminal act.
"Because Nebojša Joksović was heard at the main trial and there is no longer any danger that he will influence the witnesses. The prosecution agreed with my proposal to cancel count two, and then I asked to cancel count three as well - the danger of repeating the criminal act, considering that he cannot repeat the criminal offense, because more than three and a half years have passed since the allegedly committed criminal offense, but also that he has not committed any new criminal offense in the meantime and that there is no circumstance that indicates that will, if he is released, repeat or complete the criminal act he started," said the lawyer.
Ječmenica explains that he asked the court panel to abolish those two grounds for detention, and then to accept bail for the point on which he is detained due to the risk of escape.
"In the amount of 300.000 euros, which was given in exchange for the immovable property, i.e. the apartment, because we believe that this is a sufficient guarantee and that he will not run away because he surrendered and made himself available to the competent authorities of the Republic of Serbia, so it is crazy to expect that will escape if the court accepts bail. Now we are waiting for the decision of the extrajudicial panel on whether it accepts or rejects any of the grounds for detention, or whether they all remain the same. The decision will be made in the next few days," he said.
"Vijesti" learned that Šarić's detention was ordered due to the risk of escaping and repeating the criminal act, but his defense also requested that the court cancel them.
Earlier, Šarić offered to defend himself from freedom with a bail of 800.000 euros against accusations that he is part of a criminal group that, according to the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime of Serbia, was formed by his older brother, Darko Šarić.
The three of them and 12 other people identified as members of the Pljevljak criminal group were accused of several serious crimes, including the attempted murder of witness Nebojsa Joksović, an associate of the Serbian Prosecutor's Office, and the planting of explosives under Goran Nikolašević's car.
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.
Dejan Lazarević, Bojan Stanojković, Danilo Odović, Aleksandar Bošković, Nikola Spasojević, Danilo Stojanović, Milutin Radovanović, Duško Mirković, Stefan Andrejić, Marko Vukić, Uroš Radovanović, formerly Mišić, and Arso Šarić are also on the list of accused.
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 the defendants, according to that plan, wanted to show that after receiving the status, Joksović continued to commit criminal acts, that is, that he prepared 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.
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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