A total of 19 pistols and rifles, a small amount of drugs and a dozen mobile phones are missing from the depot of the High Court in Podgorica, which was raided in September last year, TV Vijesti has learned.
The trial of one of the suspects, Marijan Vuljaj, was not held today, because neither he nor the suspect, Katarina Baćović, appeared.
The balance of the missing items was determined by the Commission, which for six months made an inventory of thousands of items in the basement, which was opened through a dug tunnel in September of last year.
With the report on the missing items, the prosecution can continue the investigation, but already today, the suspect in the case of the robbery of the court depot, Marijan Vuljaj, did not appear before the court, on the charge that he also allowed the suspect, Katarina Baćović, to consume narcotic drugs.
That is why the Basic Court issued an order for his forced arrest.
Half a year after the High Court's depot in Podgorica, where evidence is kept, was ransacked, the Basic Prosecutor's Office could start filing indictments. Today, after several emergencies, the High Court delivered to them the final report of the Commission for the List of Archives, which allows the investigation to continue.
"The Prosecutor's Office has been provided with a list of items that are missing in the depot of the High Court in Podgorica. In order to protect the interests of the proceedings, it is not possible to announce more details at this time," said Duško Milanović, head of the Basic State Prosecutor's Office (ODT) Podgorica.
TV Vijesti has unofficially learned that 13 pistols, three pistol-revolvers and three rifles are missing from the depot. Of that number, six pistols, three pistol-revolvers and two rifles are from cases that have been legally terminated.
That the motive for breaking into the depot was not drugs, or that the burglars did not know that drugs of greater value were not in the basement depot, is also shown by the fact that only a few grams of narcotic drugs are missing from the two cases that are in progress and the three that have been legally terminated.
The commission also found that seven mobile phones, a car key, passport and some documents are missing from the ongoing cases, and three mobile phones are missing from the final cases.
For now, it is known that two pistols are missing from the case against Janko Vukadinović, who is on trial for planning the murder of Veljko Belivuk and Marko Miljković.
That the possible prosecution of the suspects in this case will not be so easy, it has already been shown today. The trial of Marjan Vuljaj, one of the suspects in the tunnel digging case, was supposed to begin in the Basic Court, because during the investigation it was established that he had enabled the suspect Katarina Baćović to use narcotic drugs. However, neither Vuljaj nor Baćović appeared in the courtroom, and he faces a sentence of six months to five years in prison.
"The court will issue an order to the Police Directorate to forcibly bring in the defendant Marjan Vuljaj, who was duly summoned but did not respond to the court's summons," said judge Dragana Lubarda.
The Prosecutor's Office suspects four citizens of Serbia for digging tunnels and breaking into the High Court depot.
Vladimir Erić is in Swedish extradition custody, while the search is on for the others. The ODT suspects that Predrag Mirotić, Ivica Piperović, Nikola Milačić and Katarina Baćović participated in this criminal enterprise, and Vuljaja that he helped her hide after the crime was committed, and they are all defending themselves from freedom.
The perpetrators and the motive of the burglary in this unprecedented case, which was also reported by the world media, are still unknown.
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