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Former director of the Revenue and Customs Administration and high-ranking official of the URA GP, Rad Milošević, had his detention terminated today at the proposal of the Special State Prosecutor's Office, Pobjeda learns.
This decision was made by the investigating judge Goran Šćepanović.
Following the termination of detention, security measures were imposed on Milošević, prohibiting him from leaving his place of residence and mandatory reporting to the Police Directorate once a month. The High Court announced that the SDT indictment against Milosevic and others in this case had not been submitted, and today was the deadline.
The SDT said that the investigation in the criminal case against Milošević was extended, and that the reasons from the decision of the Constitutional Court from June 14 of this year, regarding the duration of the defendant's detention, were respected.
Milošević was arrested on December 21 by order of the Special State Prosecutor's Office on suspicion of having created a criminal organization that smuggled cigarettes.
SDT believes that on several occasions last summer UPC, headed by Milošević at the time, organized actions to burn confiscated cigarettes, but that 90 percent of the packages ended up in the hands of smugglers instead of in the ovens.
On October 5 of last year, the Special State Prosecutor's Office decided to conduct an investigation against three defendants for the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization and accepting bribes, and on December 23, expanded the investigation against the defendant, the former director of the Revenue and Customs Administration, for the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization. organization, and against four defendants for the criminal offenses of creating a criminal organization and receiving a bribe. During the investigation, the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation - EUROPOL, in April of this year, received the intelligence package LM848IP, with encrypted SKY ECC communication, for the years 2019 and 2020. After its analysis and the collection of certain personal evidence, on June 20 it was decided to expand the investigation against four defendants, for the new criminal offenses of creating a criminal organization and receiving bribes, but also against other defendants, natural and legal persons, for the criminal offenses of creating a criminal organization, smuggling and illegal trade, which the public was aware of in the previous days - it was stated in today's announcement by the SDT on the termination of Milošević's custody.
They note that the Special State Prosecutor's Office is currently conducting an investigation against 19 defendants, natural persons and one legal person, because there is a suspicion that they committed criminal acts in the period from the end of 2018 to 2022.
As, according to the Code of Criminal Procedure, the investigation ends when the state of affairs is sufficiently clarified, while the detention in the investigation can last no longer than six months, and in the investigation that was determined and extended twice, evidence is still collected, through economic and financial expertise, according to after the termination of the custody of the defendant R.M., the investigating judge of the High Court in Podgorica, on the proposal of the Special State Prosecutor's Office, ordered him to be subject to measures of supervision, prohibition to leave his place of residence, temporary confiscation of his travel document and mandatory reporting to the Police Directorate. Thus, the reasons from the decision of the Constitutional Court of Montenegro U-III No. 266/23, dated June 14 of this year, regarding the duration of the defendant's detention were taken into account - the SDT explains.
As they say, the Special State Prosecutor's Office will inform the public in a timely manner, respecting its interest, but also protecting the interests of the investigation.
At the beginning of October, Milošević was taken into custody in the investigation of the Special Prosecutor's Office and the National Security Agency on suspicion of being part of an organized chain that smuggled some cigarettes, which the state confiscated in the Free Customs Zone of the Port of Bar, and which were supposed to be destroyed by the commission.
He was then, after several hours of informational interview with the police about the alleged cigarette smuggling, released.
A few days later, Milošević resigned from the post of director of the Customs Revenue Administration for what he stated were moral reasons.
Two and a half months later, Milosevic was arrested by order of the SDT on suspicion of having created a criminal organization that smuggled cigarettes.
The defendant Milošević's detention was ordered by the decision of the investigating judge of the High Court in Podgorica on December 23, 2022, and extended by the decision of the panel of that court on January 20, 2023, so that according to the decision of the Supreme Court, it could last until today.
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