PODGORICA, 29.10.2018. – The trial of Dusko Martinovic and other defendants, who are accused of international smuggling of cocaine, heroin and marijuana, and the creation of a criminal organization, has been continued on October 22 in the Podgorica High Court.
The testimony was given by Jonuz Hadzibeti, which was included in the charge of the Special Prosecutor, and who was arrested in Stockholm in August on the basis of Interpol’s Podgorica treasury and then extradited to Montenegro.
Hadzibeti denied his guilt and said that he would not answer the questions of the prosecutor because she and witness associate Naser Selmanovic “packed him the indictment”.
He also said that he normally left the country with his passport and went to Sweden. The development of events in Montenegro forced him to stay in Sweden: “When I saw that they arrested Jovo Martinovic who has nothing to do with this, I thought about what was waiting for me and I stayed there.”
He denied that the journalist Jovo Martinovic met him with the first indictee Dusko Martinovic, saying that they already knew each other from serving the previous sentence in the prison in Spuz.
Hadžibeti asked to face a witness associate. And that will happen at the next hearing scheduled for November 5. This week’s trial was also “jubilee” because three years past since the arrest of journalist Jovo Martinović.
Duško Martinović, Vaso Perović, Marko Šaković, Igor Vušurović, Milan Marić, Jovo Martinović and Branka Stanišić are charged with the criminal association and smuggling of cocaine, heroin and marijuana.
Journalist Jovo Martinovic is charged to have allegedly “networked” criminals and intervened in the sale of drugs. He was arrested in October 2015, spent more than a year in custody, and for months he didn’t know why he was being charged. Numerous domestic and international organizations for the freedom of expression and the protection of journalists demanded that a journalist be protected from freedom, and that he be allowed a fair trial.