Drug boss reportedly "angry at two politicians"

Drug boss reportedly "angry at two politicians"

BELGRADE -- Darko Šarić's lawyer Radoslav Bačević has told B92 that his client will reject the charges against him when he appears before the Special Court on Monday.

Šarić, a Montenegrin who has been given Serbian citizenship, is suspected of heading a drug smuggling gang and was arrested on Tuesday.

The Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime has announced that the prosecutor will first question Šarić about the manner in which he fled Serbia and about his helpers, and that these questions will be asked "in order to arrive at the connections he had in state institutions."

But Bačević said that he "does not know why Šarić would declare himself on that now."

"He needs to make a statement regarding the circumstances of the offense, whether he committed the crime or not. Since he was on the run, now he is in custody. We are not filing for his detention to be abolished now and there is no reason for Darko Šarić to answer such questions," said Bačević.

Bačević, however, stated that if such questions were to "impose themselves" during the main hearing, Šarić would "certainly answer them."

On the other hand, Večernje Novosti is reporting on Thursday that the suspected drug lord "is ready to tell all about his political and economic accomplices." As the newspaper says, he is "particularly angry at two politicians from the previous and the current government, which he believes sold him out."

The same article claims that Šarić allegedly mentioned them during the flight from Podgorica on Tuesday and "did not hide his resentment over what they did to him."

The daily further claims that he was first flown...