Today, the Special State Prosecutor's Office submitted an indictment to the Special Department of the High Court in Podgorica against Slavko Stojanović, the former director of the Police Administration, for the criminal offenses of abuse of official position and illegal possession of weapons and explosive materials.
"From the evidence collected in the reconnaissance and investigation, there is a well-founded suspicion that the defendant, on March 31, 2018, in Podgorica, as an official and public functionary, by unlawfully using his official position and authority, obtained material benefits for others and caused damage to others, and the value of the acquired property benefits exceeds the amount of thirty thousand euros, because, in his capacity as director of the Police Administration of Montenegro, who manages its work, and after learning that his friend's truck with cigarettes was stopped in Podgorica without the necessary documentation and with the intention of preventing the police, in accordance with the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Rulebook on the manner of performing certain police duties and the application of powers in the performance of such duties, collects information from the truck driver, temporarily confiscates the truck and cigarettes from him, in order to provide objects that can be used as evidence and filed a criminal complaint with the state prosecutor, issued an order for the police to let the driver continue driving the truck with cigarettes, and thus obtained a financial benefit for his friend and the truck driver in the amount of the value of the cigarettes, in the amount of 126.000,00 euros, and caused damage to the budget of Montenegro in the amount of unpaid duties, in the amount of 112.504,00 euros, because the cigarettes had to be confiscated", announced the state prosecutor and SDT spokesman Vukas Radonjić.
"Also, from the evidence collected in the previous proceedings, there is a well-founded suspicion that the defendant, in November of last year, without a proper weapon certificate, kept a firearm in the family house in Podgorica - a pistol, which the police found during a search," adds Radonjić. .
He also points out that the defendant in his defense "essentially confessed" to the crimes he was accused of.
"Finally, in the indictment it was proposed that the defendant be imposed a security measure of confiscation of the criminal case, but also extend the supervision measure of the ban on leaving the apartment, in order to ensure his presence in the proceedings, which was imposed on him after he was released from custody," it concludes. in the announcement.
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