It is believed that Pljevlja native Milivoje Terzić committed suicide in his cell in the Spuž prison, located near the country’s capital Podgorica.

The prison authorities said that he died after hanging himself on the protective railing separating the cell and the window.

It was also announced that the detainee “showed no suicidal tendencies” prior to his death.

But Podgorica-based Vijesti TV is reporting on Tuesday that the post-mortem showed that Terzić “did not commit suicide but was likely killed”, and that he died as a result of “strangulation”.

An investigation has been launched into the incident.

Terzić was detained in late August and charged with defrauding Ivanka Šarić of EUR 300,000, by impersonating a Montenegrin cabinet official and promising her that criminal procedings against her sons would be transfered from Italy to Montenegro.

The younger Šarić brother, Duško, is currently in prison in Montenegro charged with drug money laundering, while Darko Šarić - a Montenegrin who was given a Serbian passport in the mid-2000s - is on the run.

Darko Šarić is suspected of being one of the region’s drug lords and is wanted in Serbia, with an arrest warrant issued by Interpol.

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Crime & War crimes | Saturday 15.10.2011 | 15:45
Suspected drug lord “has Croatian passport”
Source: Blic

BELGRADE — Darko Šarić, a suspected drug lord wanted by Interpol, has Croatian passport which was issued by the Croatian consulate in Tuzla, daily Blic writes.
Darko Šarić
Darko Šarić

According to the daily, fingerprints in the file are Šarić’s but the name and other information are different.

A police source told Blic that Šarić had not used this passport since the warrant for his arrest had been issued.

“It has been determined that Šarić used to travel with the passport around Europe and the last time the passport was detected was at a border crossing between Croatia and Slovenia. It has been discovered that several more persons traveled at the same time and it is now determined that they used Croatian passports but that they are not the citizens of the country,” the source was quoted as saying.

“We assume that those persons, even though they were in different cars, were actually Šarić’s associates and they were travelling with him,” the source stressed.

The daily wrote that aside from the Croatian passport, Šarić also had documents issued by Serbia and Slovakia and that he had Slovak citizenship.

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Belgrade-based daily Blic writes that the fugitive’s gang managed to push the most powerful Calabrian criminal organization Ndrangheta out of the cocaine business.

According to the daily, information based on which operation “Balkan Warrior” continued in Italy and more than 80 persons were arrested proves this.

The arrests were ordered by the Italian Anti-Mafia Directorate.

The arrest warrants, which were submitted to the Montenegrin police, also contain names of Darko Šarić and Goran Soković but they are still at large. Suspects were simultaneously arrested in Serbia, Montenegro and Slovenia.

“The Ndrangheta used to supply cocaine for the entire market until the group controlled by Šarić emerged. In just two years, in 2008 and 2009, Šarić managed to put the Ndrangheta out of business and take over the Italian market thanks to better quality and lower prices,” a well-informed source told the daily.
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The victim has been identified as Dragan Dudić.

According to media reports in the Montenegrin capital of Podgorica, Dudić died on Sunday evening.

The media also said that the victim was known as a “close associate and business partner” of Darko Šarić.

Šarić, a Montenegrin traveling on a Serbian passport, is a fugitive accused in Serbia of organizing a shipment of 2.7 tons of cocaine intercepted last year. The drugs were being smuggled to Europe from South America.

Police in Montenegro yesterday identified Ivan Vračar from Nikšić as Dudić’s killer. Dudić was shot while he was sitting in a local cafe in Kotor.

The shooter, who was attacked by Dudić’s friends while he was trying to escape, was also seriously injured, police said.

The victim is described as a “businessman”, who co-owned a nightclub in Kotor, while reports said that the Montenegrin prosecution “scrutinized his companies”, on suspicion he was involved in laundering the cocaine trafficking money.

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Cocaine smuggling, ISN Security Watch, Dulue Mbachu
Cocaine smuggling, ISN Security Watch, Dulue Mbachu
15 people suspected to be members of an organised crime group led by suspected Serbian drug lord Darko Saric have been arrested in Slovenia, the Serbian Prosecutor’s Office for Organised Crime said.

According to the prosecutor’s statement, the operation in Slovenia was carried out in cooperation with the Serbian Prosecutor’s Office for Organised Crime and the Department for the Fight Against Organised Crime of the Slovenia State Prosecutor’s Office.

Money, narcotics and firearms were found in the apartments of the 15 individuals who were arrested, Tanjug news agency reported.

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25/02/2010

PODGORICA, Montenegro — Police announced on Wednesday (February 24th) that Darko Saric, sought by Serbia for cocaine trafficking, left Montenegro several days before Belgrade delivered an arrest warrant to Interpol’s office in Podgorica. Serbia issued the arrest warrant on January 21st. Saric is suspected of smuggling two tonnes of cocaine from South America. A parliamentary panel says co-ordination between relevant institutions in charge of Saric’s case was substandard and urged the government to improve channels. (Beta, Tanjug, B92, RTS - 24/02/10)

17 February 2010 | 12:24 | Source: FoNet
BELGRADE — The Special Court has accepted the organized crime prosecution’s demand to seize all property temporarily Darko Šarić.

Šarić owns the Kazino night club in downtown Kragujevac, several buildings in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Palić and other locations in Serbia, which will all be seized temporarily until his trial is finished.

He is suspected of being the head of a crime gang that attempted to smuggle over two tons of cocaine from South America.

The property of Šarić’s associate Željko Vujanović and his father Mirko in Kragujevac suffered the same fate. Vujanović is also accused in the drug smuggling case.

Vujanović’s family home, weekend home and a building in Kragujevac were all seized temporarily.

Šarić remains a fugitive and an Interpol warrant has been issued for his arrest.

Vujanović was arrested in October in the Kazino night club, in which he worked as a manager.

Šarić, a Montenegrin who was given Serbian passport in 2005, is currently at large, while his gang is suspected of last year organizing the smuggling of over two tons of cocaine from South America to Europe.

Homen said that they laundered the drug money in sport clubs and privatizations, to then legalize it through investments.

He also noted that while Šarić’s group started operating some ten years ago, they moved to Serbia in 2005.

Homen, who took part in B92 TV’s Impression of the Week talk show last night, addressed the issue of whether some of Šarić’s illegal wealth went to the country’s political parties. ……………..
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Šarić, who is on the run from Serbian authorities, is suspected of attempting to organize the smuggling of over two tons of cocaine from South America.

“The eliminatory reason for obtaining the citizenship of Montenegro is a legal court decision which convicts a person to an unconditional imprisonment for a period of time longer than a year,” Đukanović said in an interview for B92.

A Montenegrin native, Darko Šarić received Serbian citizenship in 2005, but shortly before the warrant was issued against him in the cocaine trafficking case, he “demanded to be removed from the list of Serbian citizens”, Tanjug reported.