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At today’s trial, the defendants briefly pleaded guilty, denying the crimes they are charged with, and the Deputy Prosecutor for Organized Crime presented the accusation in detail and gave an introductory statement on the crimes and the evidence against them. accused.
When presenting the accusation, the deputy prosecutor Sasa Drecun said that the Organized Crime Prosecutor’s Office accuses him of a particularly serious crime of illicit production and distribution of narcotics, for which he is threatened with a prison sentence of at least 10 years.
Koluvija was the organizer of the criminal group, with the function of organizing and providing equipment for the cultivation of drugs on the Stara Pazova farm, devising a business plan and giving orders to the members of the group, said the deputy prosecutor. The second accused, Srdjan Mrdja, who is a fugitive, relayed his orders to the other accused members of the group who were involved in the cultivation, drying and packaging of drugs.
Mrdja was also in charge of supervising the cultivation of cannabis, said, among other things, the Assistant Prosecutor for Organized Crime. The Prosecutor’s Office considers that the defendants were aware that they were not growing Indian hemp allowed for cultivation, but rather a substance declared to be a narcotic, whose cultivation is prohibited and whose placing on the market would achieve a great material gain. The defendants built underground warehouses for the drug, to hide it “from view,” and the highest-ranking members communicated through a special app. According to current legal regulations, it is only allowed to grow hemp varieties that contain less than 0.3 percent of the psychoactive component of THC, and cannabis with a much higher percentage of THC was found in the illegal Jovanjica laboratory. During the arrest of Koluvija and others in November 2019, more than 649.4 kilograms of dried marijuana and 65,581 stalks of this narcotic in raw state were seized, weighing almost four tons.
In addition to Koluvija and Mrdja, the defendants are Vladan Živojinović, Branislav Miljević, Zdravko Milošević, Stevan Holić, Vule Bojović, Petar Živanović, Petar Hricaj and Boban Jovanović. The trial will continue tomorrow, when defense attorneys will begin their introductory statements. All of the defendants have been in custody since their arrest in November last year. In the continuation of the investigation of this case, at the beginning of July, seven more suspects were arrested for being members of this group, including five employees of the Ministry of the Interior and the BIA. They are under investigation and they were released in mid-September to defend themselves.
Kurir.rs/Informer
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