Mijajlović, the group's organizer, suspects that the SDT has damaged the budget by several million.

The Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) suspects that the owner of the company "Televex", Vladimir Mijajlović from Podgorica, was the organizer of a criminal group that had been involved in cigarette smuggling and money laundering for years.

The prosecution believes that this criminal organization caused multi-million-dollar damage to the Montenegrin state budget.

The SDT will propose issuing an arrest warrant for Mijajlović, who has been outside Montenegro since January of this year.

Due to suspicion that they were part of a criminal organization, officers of the Special Police Department (SPO) arrested Haris Kardović and Refik Kardović from Rožaje, who were taken to the SPO building during the day.

As part of today's operation, SPO officers also arrested two people from Bar - Hajrula Jahović and Aldin Mlatišuma.

They are accused of being part of a criminal organization that for many years was involved in cigarette smuggling from the Port of Bar in transit to Rožaje and beyond...

The teenager was also arrested in February 2021 for cigarette smuggling.

He and his company "Catwood" were then included in the report on suspicion that from the beginning of October to November 3, 2020, he removed 4.443 packages of various types of cigarettes from the Customs Post of the Free Zone of Bar, avoiding customs supervision measures.

Jahović is the owner of a road freight transport company.

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The SDT arrest list includes the names of two more people from Bar and Podgorica, who are currently unavailable to the police and prosecutor's office.

The Special State Prosecutor's Office announced this morning that the Special Police Department is carrying out urgent evidentiary actions against several individuals in Podgorica, Bar, Ulcinj and Rožaje, due to the existence of grounds for suspicion that they committed the criminal offenses of creating a criminal organization, money laundering and smuggling.

"The Special State Prosecutor's Office will, after completing the evidentiary actions being undertaken and the interrogation of persons deprived of their liberty as suspects, inform the public about their results and the decision on the further course of the proceedings," the statement reads.

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