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Former chief special prosecutor Milivoje Katnić filed a criminal complaint against Dritan Abazović on Friday, December 23, stating that, by abusing the official position of the Prime Minister of Montenegro, he threatened his safety on several occasions with public accusations and thus violated Article 28 of the Constitution of Montenegro.
In the report to the chief special prosecutor for organized crime, Vladimir Novović, it is stated that Abazović during his address to the deputies in the Parliament of Montenegro on August 19, as well as in subsequent public appearances, "illegally used his official position" by making untrue and serious accusations that Katnić, then the main special prosecutor, in connection with the company Bemaks, which, as Abazović asserted, "is the owner of the cigarettes that were confiscated in the Port of Bar".
SERIOUS ACCUSATIONS
During the parliamentary debate on confidence in the minority Government of Montenegro, Dritan Abazović directly accused Milivoje Katnić of being part of an organized group that deals in cigarette smuggling.
That team represented by Ubović, now they quarreled among themselves, is connected to Zoran Lazović, Milivoj Katnić and the former head of the Special Police Department, Dragan Radonjić - according to the criminal complaint, Abazović's quote during the address to the deputies.
During the stormy debate, trying to obtain the majority of votes in the parliament against the overthrow of the 43rd Government, Abazović "pointed his finger" at the co-owner of the Bemaks company, Ranko Ubović, accusing him of being involved in cigarette smuggling, with the protection of the head of the SDT and the Special Police Department. , but also to finance media campaigns against the prime minister.
It is disputed that most of the goods seized in Port Bar, these various cigarettes, are the property of Bemaks or people associated with them. Campaigns are financed from there and campaigns against Abazović have been launched since then... What M portal publishes are not reports from Europol, but reports from secret measures against scammers, which ended up in the media from the former SPO - asserted Abazović.
He then called on the new management of the Special State Prosecutor's Office to check how they got this information and announced that he would soon visit prosecutor Vladimir Novović himself to "share his knowledge because it might be useful".
Seventeen days later, after the vote of no confidence in the 43rd Government, the Prime Minister in a technical mandate achieved what he had announced on September 5. He gave a statement at the Special State Prosecutor's Office and, as he said, "completed the story about the organizers of cigarette smuggling", pointing to a bag in which, allegedly, there were important papers.
I gave them an example that also has to do with the previous Special State Prosecutor, so let them investigate - Abazović told the gathered journalists.
In the criminal complaint, Abazović is also charged with this, noting that he made statements that he knew were untrue, "all with the intention of harming Milivoj Katnić and seriously infringing his rights by creating intolerance and hatred towards injured".
DRAWING THE TARGET
Unfounded on any information, he accused individual persons of connection with criminal structures, and linked Katnić himself to cigarette smuggling.
According to Katnić, he had no business or private relationship with the legal entity Bemaks or Ranko Ubović, and that he communicated officially with Zoran Lazović.
It is obvious that Dritan Abazović deliberately stated the falsehoods in order to harm Milivoj Katnić and at the same time threaten his rights guaranteed by the Constitution - the criminal complaint states.
Katnić states that according to Article 28 of the Constitution of Montenegro, the state is obliged to guarantee the dignity and safety of man, and that by spreading untruths, Abazović violated that constitutional right, especially since Katnić, as he points out, was a judge of the Court of Appeal for ten years and then the chief special state prosecutor , thus performing very responsible duties in the state.
With his untrue statements, it is pointed out in the explanation, Abazović "made it clear to the members of criminal organizations that they have an open space to act towards endangering the security" of the chief special prosecutor Milivoj Katnić.
WHO REALLY SMUGGLED
It is said that all the Prime Minister's statements gain special weight because the information that Dritan Abazović was in contact with certain members of criminal organizations became public.
All of the above clearly shows that the sole purpose of Dritan Abazović's statement in the Parliament of Montenegro on August 19 and his statement from September 5 is the grounds for initiating criminal proceedings - Milivoj Katnić's criminal report concludes.
After in public appearances during August and September, Prime Minister Abazović harshly and directly attacked numerous representatives of the opposition, most often the President of the State Milo Đukanović, the President of the SDP Raško Konjević and the DPS Member of Parliament Predrag Bošković, that they are patrons of cigarette smuggling, it is in the public domain, through the writing of Pobjeda, a big affair of state smuggling was opened.
The Special State Prosecutor's Office opened an investigation into the suspicion that in three cigarette burnings in Nikšić, which were organized by the Revenue and Customs Administration led by Rado Milošević, the cigars confiscated in the Port of Bar were not destroyed, but that this action was used for further illegal marketing of cigarettes.
After an extensive investigation, based on information from the ANB and the British intelligence service, a state cigarette smuggling channel was established, and the former acting director of the UPC was suspected of being the head of a criminal organization that damaged the state for several million euros.
Milošević was remanded in custody for up to 30 days, and the investigation continues.
M. J.
