Bozovic Arrested at Spuz Gate as Detention Expired

Former Budva municipality president Milo Bozovic is back behind bars, and on the very day when, after three years in detention without a single first instance verdict, he was legally supposed to walk free. The case is being followed from Belgrade too, since the indictments against him lead straight to the so called Kavac clan, a network that for years has left a trail of blood on Serbian streets as well, and the cocaine routes Montenegrin prosecutors are investigating also run through the Serbian market.

Arrested Right at the Prison Gate

Bozovic was arrested on September 15, 2026, at the gate of the Administration for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions (UIKS) in Spuz, as part of an investigation Montenegro’s Special State Prosecutor’s Office (SDT) is running under the name “General.” Officers from the Special Police Department (SPO) waited for him outside the Investigative Prison on the exact day his detention was set to expire under the three year statutory limit from the filing of the indictment, and immediately took him to the SDT and SPO building for further processing.

That same day, Mileta Ojdanic, Vladimir Bajceta and Milan Popovic were also brought to the same premises for questioning, directly from UIKS as well. All three are already in detention on charges from other organized crime cases, making Bozovic’s arrest part of a broader wave of interrogations within the same operation.

Two Cases, Same Network of Names

Bozovic was first arrested on April 13, 2023, and has been in continuous detention in Spuz ever since. In the first case, he is accused of being part of a criminal organization that prosecutors say was formed by his fellow townsman Mileta Ojdanic and fugitive police officer Ljubo Milovic, a group charged with smuggling 4.3 tons of cocaine. That case is being heard before a three judge panel of the Podgorica High Court, led by Judge Simo Rasovic.

In January 2025, the SDT hit him with a second indictment, this time as an alleged member of a group linked to Vaso Ulic, Radoje Zvicer and Slobodan Kascelan, the leaders of the so called Kavac clan, charged with smuggling around 2.5 tons of cocaine. That case is being heard by a panel led by Judge Nada Rabrenovic.

In the meantime, Bozovic offered the court a 1.4 million euro guarantee in property belonging to others, as a pledge that he would not flee if allowed to defend himself while free. The court rejected the proposal.

”This Is a Backup Indictment”

Before both panels, his defense has rested on the same argument: that the case relies on the so called Sky material, from which prosecutors, in the same period, placed him in two different criminal groups. Before Judge Rabrenovic’s panel, on January 12 this year, he said:

“I have no connection whatsoever to this alleged criminal organization. Based on the same Sky material, the prosecution has labeled me a member of a different criminal group in the same period. My conclusion is that this is a backup indictment, so they can keep me in detention if the first indictment falls apart.”

About two weeks earlier, in late December last year, before Judge Rasovic’s panel, he also built his defense on a political argument, claiming his arrest changed the election result in Budva:

“If I hadn’t been arrested, we would have a different prime minister today. The political parties I led in the Budva elections held 18 seats in parliament, and now they have six and are no longer part of the government. That is where the reasons for my arrest should be sought.”

Why Serbia Is Also Following the Case

The names that keep reappearing in both cases, Radoje Zvicer, Slobodan Kascelan and the Kavac clan as a whole, have for years been part of investigations run by Serbian security services too, since the clashes between that group and the rival Skaljari clan left victims outside Montenegro as well, including on Serbian territory. The outcome of the “General” investigation is therefore not just an internal Montenegrin matter, but part of the broader picture of organized crime in the Balkans, whose cocaine smuggling routes toward Western Europe also run through the region that includes Serbia.

Whether Bozovic will be released again, or whether the SDT will secure new grounds for his detention before the end of the day, depends on a decision prosecutors say is coming within hours. Until then, he remains in the premises of the Special State Prosecutor’s Office and the Special Police Department in Podgorica, while his co-defendants Ojdanic, Bajceta and Popovic continue waiting to be questioned in the same building.