Prosecutorial „Back to the Future“

Is it possible to plan a criminal operation to influence events that already took place three months earlier? Outside of a science-fiction film such as Robert Zemeckis’s Back to the Future, such things seem absolutely impossible in real life.

Still, the Special State Prosecutor’s Office of Montenegro appears to have carried out a time travel operation of its own. And that in the Order to Conduct an Investigation into the smuggling of cocaine from Ecuador, signed by a trio of prosecutors: Ivan Medojević, Jovan Vukotić, and Maja Janković.

The key objectives of a criminal organization consisting of 24 members are stated with precision.

DIFFERENT POLICIES WITH A COMMON GOAL?!

“...organized for the purpose of acquiring unlawful profit for themselves and the criminal organization, procuring large quantities of weapons and explosive materials, intimidating other persons, exerting influence over the appointment of individuals close to them to manager positions within the Police Administration of Montenegro to obtain data classified with a level of secrecy and other important information; and to use money obtained through criminal activity to influence, during the parliamentary elections in August 2020 in Montenegro, voters so that they do not exercise their voting right...”

This is exactly how it is written in the Order to Conduct an Investigation dated December 5 of last year.

It is stated that this is a twenty-four-member criminal group allegedly organized by Ljubo Milović and Mileta Ojdanić. Among the members are, according to the prosecutorial trio, Radoje Zvicer, Milo Božović, Radovan Perović, Vukašin Vojinović, as well as Petar Lazović, businessman Aleksandar Mijajlović, and several other well-known and lesser-known individuals.

At first glance, it is strange that the alleged members of the criminal organization are evidently from different political options, such as the already mentioned Budva resident and Democratic Front politician Milo Božović, or the Podgorica businessman Aleksandar Mijajlović.

FLIGHT THROUGH TIME

However, an even greater confusion is created by the prosecutorial flight through time, especially when analyzing the now already famous 12 messages that prosecutors have been transferring at will across different investigations, from cigarette smuggling to cocaine smuggling.

And which are identical, even including the same typing errors.

30 NOVEMBER 2020 (Ljubo Milović): Wherever ships go from Ecuador, I can send / Currently, we only work in Rotterdam / I worked in Istanbul / I worked in Hamburg / Currently, we only work in Rotterdam...

1 DECEMBER 2021 (Petar Lazović): Is Bulgaria and Greece interesting / Most likely there is something there / can Macedonia too?

This is just a fragment of the 12 notorious sentences that the Special State Prosecutorial Office uses whenever a particular prosecutor needs them and for whichever criminal offense they want to charge.

And one mistake is immediately noticeable: from the Sky messages presented, it appears that Ljubo Milović waited for Petar Lazović’s response for an entire year - from November 30, 2020, to December 1, 2021?! The prosecutorial trio should have paid attention when they copied the 12 sentences from the indictment for cigarette smuggling from June 2025 - the same mistake was repeated there.

MANIPULATIONS

However, far more drastic is the manipulation of linking the planning of cocaine smuggling from Ecuador to the alleged illegal influence of the supposed criminal group on the August 2020 elections.

Because even if they had successfully smuggled cocaine from Ecuador at the end of December 2020, the criminal organization could not have used the money from drug sales to influence the will of Montenegrin voters in elections that had ended three months earlier - on August 30?!

This truly bizarre detail also points to numerous abuses of Sky material that Europol delivered to the Special Police Department and the Special State Prosecutor’s Office. It is possible that in the

indictment currently being prepared, this, for the SSPO, truly humiliating mistake, will be corrected.

But numerous questions raised by the investigative team of Television E remain unanswered: will the Chief Special Prosecutor Vladimir Novović raise the issue of responsibility; will the Prosecutorial Council begin to do its job; is there any initiative in the Higher Court to reconsider the confirmation of the indictment based on inserted and incorrect Sky messages?

How long will the official state silence over unlawful manipulations by state officials continue?