Montenegro’s Kalic questioned in plot, released
Опубликовано: 04 Сентябрь 2008
An alleged drug lord in northern
Press reported that Safet Kalić, 40, was served a warrant from
The 10 arrested Saturday night were charged with criminal association to commit first-degree murder and possession of arms and explosives. They will remain in custody for 30 days. Police did not name the target of the suspects' assassination plot.
Kalić was questioned because he had rented a 200-square-meter Podgorica apartment to the group. "He claimed that he had no relation to them and that he didn't know them," a source told the Montenegrin daily Vijesti, adding that the organized crime directorate had no proof linking Kalić to the group or to the murder plot.
In a letter to Vijesti after he was released, Kalić complained of the paper's report of his arrest, saying he was not arrested or handcuffed, nor was he questioned as a suspect in any crime.
Local press in the region refers to Kalić as a controversial businessman whose family is the wealthiest in what is
Kalić's name became public 2003, when Serbian police investigating the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić alleged that he was one of the biggest narco-bosses in the Balkans, and that he had for years supplied hundreds of kilograms of heroin to the Zemun Clan, whose members were ruled to be involved in the ĐinĐic murder.