The review of the indictment against the alleged police drug cartel is scheduled for May 9, before the High Court in Podgorica.
At the beginning of April, the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) resubmitted the indictment to the High Court, which had been returned to them for revision.
SDT charges former and active policemen Ljub Milović (40), Mileta Ojdanić (51), Ivan Stamatović (40), Nebojša Bugarin (43), Petar Lazović (33), Marko Novaković (37), Milan Popović (40), Miloš Mišurović (41), Vladimir Bajčeta (43), Goran Stojanović (40), Dejan Knežević (50) and Darko Knežević (44) that they cooperated in criminal affairs with the President of the Municipality of Budva Milo Božović (46), the head of the Kavački clan Radoj Zvicer (41 ) and Božidar Jabučanin (46), Aleksandar Keković (31), Dražen Milović (36), Filip Zindović (34), formerly known as Kljajević, Ivan Nikolić (37), Tihomir Adžić (38), Ivan Mijatović (38) and more NN persons.
With the new act, the SDT accused the group of creating a criminal organization, money laundering, unauthorized production, possession and distribution of narcotic drugs and illegal possession of weapons and explosives.
Former Assistant Director of the Police Administration, Dejan Knežević, is charged with divulging secret information and abuse of official position.
"Today, the Special State Prosecutor's Office submitted an indictment against 21 defendants to the Special Department for the Trial of Criminal Offenses of Organized Crime, Corruption, Terrorism and War Crimes of the High Court in Podgorica: Lj.M., MO, IS, NB, PL , MP, BJ, MM, AK, VB, GS, DM, FZ, IN, TA, MN, DK, MB, for criminal acts of creating a criminal organization, against Lj.M., MO, IS, NB, PL, MP, BJ, MM, AK, VB, MN, RZ, DM, FZ, MB and IM, for the criminal offenses of unauthorized production, possession and distribution of narcotic drugs - about 4 and 300 kg of cocaine, against Lj.M., IS, MO , BJ and MN, for the criminal offense of money laundering - about seven million euros, against MM, AK and Lj.M., for the criminal offense of causing general danger and illegal possession of weapons and explosive substances, against DK, for the criminal offense of disclosing secret information and against DK, for the criminal offense of abuse of official position, committed in the period from 2019 to February 2021, in Montenegro, but also in certain countries of Europe and South America," State Prosecutor and SDT spokesman Vukas Radonjić announced earlier.
"In the indictment, it is proposed that the custody of the defendants MO, MP, VB, TA, MB, MM, GS and IM be extended, and that the defendants Lj.M., RZ, MN, IS, AK, IN, NB, BJ, DM and FZ, who are on the run and for whom international warrants have been issued, are being tried in absentia," Radonjić stated.
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