Slobodan Kascelan, alleged leader of the Kavac clan, has been arrested

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The alleged leader of the Kavac criminal clan, Slobodan Kascelan, was arrested during the night in Kotor, Montenegro, Vijesti reports.

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A source for Vijesti claims that Kascelan was handcuffed on suspicion of organizing a criminal group that committed and planned several serious crimes, for which he faces up to 40 years in prison.

According to that information, Kascelan and three alleged members of that group were arrested in Kotor, and another in Pljevlja.

Kascelan is marked in police records as one of the leaders of the Kavac clan. Apart from him, the police see Radoje Zvicer as the head of that clan, who has never been arrested in Montenegro in major police operations.

The Police Administration did not officially announce the details of the arrests last night. This Kotor resident was not detained as he is defending himself from accusations of loan sharking.

Such a decision was made at the end of 2019, after the court accepted bail in the amount of slightly more than 500,000 euros in real estate. Kascelan is accused of organized loan sharking. Initially, the Special State Prosecutor's Office charged him with more serious crimes.

Igor M. Bozovic, his son Vladimir Bozovic, Davor M. Prelevic, Milosš D. Radonjic, Sinisa S. Vlahovic, Aleksandar M. Djurisic, Stefan S. Brnovic, Djerdj N. Camaj, Igor M. Djurisic, Aleksandra M. Bogdanovic, brothers Nikola N. Andric and Igor N. Andric, Trip Z. Moskov and Goran S. Ljubatovic are also on trial in the same case. The indictment alleges, among other things, that Kascelan and Igor Bozovic organized a criminal group and then recruited other members.

The criminal group aimed to commit criminal acts of extortion - loan sharking, illegal possession of weapons, sale of drugs, enabling the use of narcotics, giving bribes, serious crime against public safety, money laundering. At the end of June 2016, Kascelan was wounded in Novi Sad.

The special state prosecutor's office and officers from the Sector for the Fight against Organized Crime recently, as had been stated, prevented the murder of Kascelan.

According to this, he was to be killed on January 22 while arriving at the trial in the Higher Court in Podgorica in an armored car.

That day, Kascelan was supposed to be attacked at one of the traffic lights in Podgorica while he was in the car - the plan of the criminal group was to activate an improvised explosive device, which was supposed to be attached to his vehicle with a magnet from a moving motorcycle.

Special prosecutor Sasa Cadjenovic announced at a press conference that the realization of the criminal plan was "interrupted in the moments it was being committed" without explaining the details about where and how the plan had been thwarted. He did not mention the name of the target.

(Telegraf.rs)