On Monday, the special court in Belgrade is to pronounce the verdict on Darko Sarić and the other defendants for smuggling 5,7 tons of cocaine from Latin America to Western Europe, after a multi-year trial.
It will be a first-instance verdict against which dissatisfied parties will be able to appeal to the Court of Appeal.
In its closing arguments, the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime proposed to the Special Court that Šarić and the others be sentenced to a maximum prison sentence of 30 to 40 years in prison, while Šarić claimed that there was no evidence that he was the organizer of cocaine smuggling and that the charges against him were fabricated by the will of the former government .
The Prosecution believes that there are no mitigating circumstances for the defendants, while there are plenty of aggravating ones, because they "did everything with direct intention and the motives were exclusively the acquisition of enormous financial benefits.
The prosecution proposed significantly lower sentences for cooperating witnesses.
Thus, he proposed that Nebojša Joksović receive no more than six months in prison, Radan Adamović no longer than ten, while he asked for no more than eight months for Draško Vuković.
This process, which was based on six combined indictments against a total of 36 defendants, 14 of whom are still on the run, began in October 2009 with the arrest of the first suspects and the seizure of about two tons of cocaine in Uruguay, and was later expanded several times.
In addition to Šarić, there are nine other defendants on the bench of the Special Court in Belgrade, nine others have entered into a plea agreement, and three have received the status of cooperating witnesses.
Besides Šarić, Nikola Dimitrijević, Željko Vujanović, Miloš Cajić, Borislav Tunjić, Nikola Dimitrijević, Živko Sibinski, Boban Stojiljković, Marko Dabović and Aleksandra Mišić are on the dock.
In April 2013, in the Special Court in Belgrade, the unified trial of the Šarić group began on six indictments for smuggling more than a total of 5,7 tons of cocaine from Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina to Western Europe during 2008 and 2009.
Rodoljub Radulović, Goran Soković, Marko Pandrc, Nenad Novaković, Boško Nedić, Darko Tošić, Darko Gazdić, Milovan Milovac, Bojan Stanojković, Petar Obradović, Marko Račić, Vladimir Račić, Mihajlo Đoković and Nebojša Sretenović are also on the run.
An Interpol warrant has been issued for them.
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