While for the plaintiff Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime (TOK) which led the action of record seizure marijuana in Konjuh near Kruševac, we cannot say with certainty that she will be replaced because of this, the competent police inspectors will. This is about "packs" because they did not inform their authorities that they were working on the case, retired prosecutor Jasmina Paunović told "Vreme".
The first results of the investigation are irresistibly reminiscent of the epilogue in the affair "Jovanjica" when police inspectors Slobodan Milenković and Dušan Mitić were replaced.
Their colleagues, inspectors Raša Popović and Nikola Đoković, are also now "rewarded" with shifts, because they seized five tons of marijuana in the warehouses of the company "Florakom" owned by Rade Spasojević, councilor Serbian Progressive Party in Kruševac.
The largest seizure of marijuana in Serbia: Found five tons in Konjuh near Kruševac
Prosecutor Irena Bjeloš, who led the action, apparently will not continue her work at TOK, but Paunović points out that in her case, it does not necessarily mean that this shift is directly related to involvement in that case.
"The prosecutor will because of recently adopted judicial laws have to return to the parent prosecutor's office after 30 days, but not only she but all prosecutors who have been referred will have to do that. The case will be assigned to a prosecutor who remains there. Her dismissal can be interpreted in that sense, and not because she worked on the case, and now she is no longer allowed to work," says Paunović.
Similarities with the "Jovanjica" affair
When it comes to the dismissed police officers, Paunović states that there are similarities with the "Jovanjica" case.
"These police officers are punished in some way, it is a kind of punishment for them, regardless of how it is presented to the public. It means that they did something, but their boss did not know that they were acting in that case," says Paunović.
Asked how similar the seizure of marijuana in Konjuh is to the "Jovanjica" affair in other aspects, apart from the treatment policemen who participated in those two seizures, Paunović says that each item is unique.
"There is no analogy in criminal law, regardless of the fact that both cases involve the confiscation of marijuana. That is why we cannot compare the defendants in this case with the defendants in the 'Jovanjica' affair. These defendants must be in custody at least as long as the court has determined. The prosecutor will have to close the investigation within six months in order to file an indictment. That is why the key question remains who will handle the case if the prosecutor referred to the TOK after 30 days has to The prosecutor who would replace her would have to spend a lot of time getting to know the case, to read the transcripts, listen to the witnesses and determine the expertise," Paunović points out.
"Call Bata Gašić"
According to the weekly "Radar", the neighbors of the defendants heard, before the cameras were turned on to record the arrest for the police action, that the defendants shouted: "What an arrest, this is a state one, call Batu Gašić. "
Paunović emphasizes that the defendants can defend themselves in any way, but also reminds that the prosecutor is obliged to check everything the defendants say during the proceedings.
"The prosecutor will verify these allegations if he calls the defendants as witnesses to the circumstances that the defendant states. Whether the state is involved in the case cannot be known until it is established, that is, until the acting prosecutor comes to certain knowledge. The fact that the Minister of Police was caught in this situation shows that the police inspectors entered the case much earlier than Marko Kricak became the new head of the Criminal Police Directorate. If he doesn't have that knowledge, then it's normal that the Minister of Police doesn't have that knowledge either, and hence the surprise at the discovery," says Paunović.
He emphasizes that the investigations, as in the case of the record seizure of marijuana in Konjuh, have been ongoing for a long time.
"According to my experience in such complex cases, I think that Kricak, when he was appointed to that position, did not know about that case, and that is why he is taking revenge on the police inspectors for not telling them to work on it in time. The fact that the credit for the seizure is now attributed to Kricak is a kind of inversion, because it is not logical for him to reap laurels for a case with which he was not familiar and at the same time he replaced two police inspectors. That shift says exactly that he is not responsible for that case," he concludes. Paunović.
