Lawyers Miloš Vuksanović and Stefan Jovanović, defenders of the defendants Marij Milošević, Goran Rakočević and Filip Bešović, are today in the High Court in Podgorica reviewing the indictment against the defendants for the murder of Miodrag Migi Kruščić and the wounding of journalist Olivera Lakić. They proposed that the court suspend the criminal proceedings, that set a precedent and make the control of the indictment expedient.
All defense attorneys and the defendant said that if the court considers that the proceedings should not be suspended, the indictment should be confirmed as soon as possible in order to end this agony as soon as possible.
Lawyers Jovanović and Vuksanović pointed out that the indictment contains absolutely no evidence from which there would be reasonable suspicion that the defendants committed the criminal acts they are charged with.
"This indictment represents a kind of insult to the injured journalist Olivera Lakić, i.e. to the Kruščić family. In this indictment there are no real perpetrators of criminal acts. There is confusion in the indictment, because it is stated that the motive for the attack on journalist Olivera Lakić was her research work , while as the injured party she was heard and decisively stated that she had never seen the defendants, that she did not know them and that she had not written a single letter about them, let alone an article, that is, that they were not the subject of her work, which speaks for itself confused, they say and allege that the members of this criminal organization had influence on the media, including on 'Vijesti', so the question arises whether the members of this criminal organization wanted to commit a crime to the detriment of the journalist Olivera Lakić or the daily newspaper in which she worked". Jovanovic said.
He added that "the investigation in this case lasted for more than six years, which in itself speaks volumes about the quality of the evidence collected during the alleged investigation phase."
"This indictment was brought not for the purpose of conducting the proceedings at the main trial and establishing the material truth, but solely to keep all the defendants in custody," said Jovanović.
As the defender of Filip Bešović, Jovanović stated that from all the evidence of the base station analysis report, it follows that he did not follow Olivera Lakić.
The Special State Prosecutor's Office submitted an indictment against 14 defendants for the murder of Miodrag Kruščić and the attack on journalist Olivera Lakić in May 2018 to the Special Department for the Trial of Organized Crime, Corruption, Terrorism and War Crimes of the High Court in Podgorica.
Milan Vujotić, former policeman Darko Lalović, Filip Knežević, Mario Milošević, Goran Rakočević, Veselin Bubanja, Filip Bešović, Luka Bulatović, Dejan Vukašinović, Branislav Karadžić, Goran Vukčević, Mijajlo Stojanović, Aleksandar Ljumović and Sanja Božović are included in the indictment.
The spokesman of the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) Vukas Radonjić announced that the subject of the indictment, in addition to the attack on the journalist Lakić and the murder of Kruščić, is the smuggling of 554 kilograms of marijuana from Albania to Montenegro on January 26, 2021.
"The indictment proposed that the defendant MM's detention be extended, due to the existence of circumstances that indicate a risk of escape and that he will repeat the crime, that the defendants MV, A.Lj. and FK be tried in absentia, because they are on the run or otherwise they are not reachable by state authorities, while the other defendants are serving a sentence or in custody in other criminal cases or have been released after the maximum period of detention in an investigation by law has expired and that while the proceedings were ongoing before the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica ", reads Radonjić's announcement.
Journalist Lakić was wounded in the leg on May 8, 2018 in front of the door of a building in Podgorica, and on May 21, 2018, Miodrag Kruščić was killed while he was sitting in the "Palat" bar at Stari Aerodrom in Podgorica. The killer had a silicone mask and approached Kruščić from behind and fired nine bullets into him.
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