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The editorial staff of the Croatian daily “Nacional” claims to have a recording of a telephone conversation in which Sreten Jocic, alias Joca Amsterdam, points out that Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic was involved in the liquidation of Ivo Pukanic, the owner of that newspaper, who was murdered in 2008. Djukanovic’s office announced that it was recycling lies thrown eight years ago.
The recorded conversation, as it is written in the text of the last issue of “Nacional”, part of which is broadcast by the media, took place in a completely different context. In it, Jocic, who was acquitted of the murder of a journalist by a final verdict of the Belgrade court, allegedly concludes that he could have been a free man if he had talked about Djukanovic’s role in this story and explains why he has not done so until now. Jocic reportedly said he could “prepare Djukanovic” and now lives in Costa Rica.
The audio recording first reached the police in Bosnia and Herzegovina and then Croatia, where the person who recorded the conversation reported Jocic due to the threats. We remind you that Jocic was arrested for the murder of Pukanic in 2009 in Belgrade, and in 2012 he was transferred to serve a 15-year prison sentence for the murder of Goran Marjanovic in 1995, which he is still serving today.
Pukanic and his partner Niko Franjic died on October 23, 2008 in the parking lot in front of the building where they worked, when a remote activation bomb was placed on a motorcycle parked next to a car.
A group of direct perpetrators and organizers were arrested and sentenced to decades in two trials that took place in parallel in Belgrade and Zagreb. At that time, there was no interstate agreement under which our citizens could be extradited to Croatia. In both judgments, the originators and the motive remained unknown. At the trial in Belgrade, Jocic denied the allegations and claimed that a Kafkaesque trial was underway against him. He was acquitted of the charges for the murder of Pukanic.
The prosecution accused him of reaching an agreement with an unidentified person to kill Pukanic for 1,500,000 euros. According to the indictment, the motive was that Pukanic presented information in the print and electronic media in Croatia and Serbia about the activities of various criminal groups in Serbia and neighboring countries.
The trial in both Serbia and Croatia was accompanied by conspiracy theories, from which Stanko Subotic Cane, suspected at the time as the leader of the “tobacco mafia”, was behind the murder, to which Pukanic was the victim of hiding. Croatian-Serbian-Montenegrin involving police and intelligence structures.
Lawyer Vladimir Vucinic, a former Special Court judge who presided over the panel in the proceedings for the murder of Ivo Pukanic, says that the alleged recording, even if it is authentic, cannot change the judicial decision that Sreten Jocic is not guilty.
During this process, we had information about Pukanic’s testimony with the Turin prosecutor, Giuseppe Shelzi, where he connected some people from Montenegro, as well as Stanko Subotic, with the cigarette smuggling and talked about some parties in Sveti Stefan, where he also they came. Croatian stage people. He said he heard that story on the plane to America and that Montenegro is El Dorado. This was not adduced in the case as evidence. We also had information that Pukanic from Montenegro was offered to stop writing, and he spoke to Prosecutor Shelzi about it. He did not want to stop, but continued, and that part could have something to do with Djukanovic, but not with Jocic ”, said lawyer Vucinic in conversation with ‘Politika’.
Even if Jocic stated that Djukanovic was involved in the murder of Pukanic, that could not “reopen” this trial. As Vucinic explains, the procedure could be repeated only if a conviction is pronounced and new evidence appears that could lead to a different verdict.
Eventually, that statement could be evidence for the proceedings in Montenegro. Because even though the cigarette smuggling case is out of date, the murder process is not and could not be started, but we can only speculate on that for now.
Montenegrin businessman Ratko Knezevic testified about the role of Milo Djukanovic and the tobacco cartel in the murder of Pukanic before the Zagreb court, claiming that the crime was related to the cigarette smuggling procedure against Milo Djukanovic in Bari.
The Montenegrin leader later said through the media that the trade in tobacco products in Montenegro is a regular business, not a mobster business, that every penny of that business flows into the state coffers and that behind the accusations against him there are people who draw a target on their forehead, as Zoran Djindjic at one point.
In yesterday’s announcement from Djukanovic’s cabinet, it was said that “Nacional” in a desperate attempt to increase circulation published a recycling of lies that was launched eight years ago, and immediately afterwards denied by all the actors of that construction, including the Sreten Jocic himself.
“The pressure from the then Serbian police leadership, during the Boris Tadic government, to falsely accuse Djukanovic of Jocic, in order to discredit Montenegro and its leadership in this way, did not have the desired effect.” At the time, they were exposed as one of many methods in the attempt to criminalize Milo Đukanović, which various intelligence and media centers have been carrying out for more than 20 years. One of those attempts was the “tobacco issue”, which was verified by the court as a subterfuge, while all the actors in that process, before the Italian courts, were legally acquitted of all charges “, emphasizes Djukanovic’s cabinet .
Two years ago, after nearly two decades of proceedings, a Bari court cleared Djukanovic of cigarette smuggling charges for obsolescence and lack of evidence.
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