The Extraordinary Chamber of the High Court rejected the appeal of the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) and confirmed the decision that Aleksandar Mijajlović is free to defend himself against charges of creating a criminal organization and cigarette smuggling.
This was announced to Vijesti by the public relations advisor of the High Court, Marija Raković.
She explained that Mijajlovic will be released from the pre-trial detention center after the real estate guaranteed by his defense is registered.
On April 12, the investigating judge of the High Court in Podgorica, Suzana Mugoša, accepted Aleksandar Mijajlović's offer that the man from Podgorica, with a bail of 1,1 million euros, defend himself against accusations that he created a criminal organization that smuggled cigarettes.
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Mijajlović was arrested on February 19 by order of the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT), which accuses him of forming a criminal group that smuggled cigarettes with another person.
The SDT named police officers Milenko Mića Rabrenović, Radoje Rabrenović, Dragan Backović and Mirko Mijušković as members of Mijajlović's criminal team, then Dejan Jokić, Golub Vojinović, Milan Vukadinović and several persons whose identification the prosecutors are working on.
After the arrest, "Vijesti" was told that in the files of the SDT, which manages the case, it is written that the members of that organized group smuggled cigarettes internationally for at least three years - from 2019 to the end of 2021.
"Mijajlović and another person, according to the available evidence, created that organization in 2019," claims the newspaper's interlocutor.
According to that information, correspondence from the encrypted Sky phone application, in which, according to the investigators, the arrested participated, is said to be among the data forwarded from Europol. Some of their lawyers denied the claims.
A months-long action by the SDT resulted in the arrest, as insiders claim, of the very top of the so-called Grand clan, with Aleksandar Aco Mijajlović at its head.
In addition to the second organizer, according to "Vijesti" information, investigators are looking for several other persons who participated in that illegal business, and who are now listed as unknown persons in the prosecutor's files.
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