Montenegro’s Special State Prosecutor’s Office (SDT) filed an indictment against 11 people for drug trafficking, weapons offences and ordering a murder.[1] Prosecutors allege that Milan Janković of Bar and Toni Junčaj of Tuzi formed the group, which also included Albanian citizen Nikolino Pepaj alongside Montenegrin defendants.[1] In July 2023, the Special Police Department (SPO) arrested Janković, Junčaj, Milan Milović, Alen Đolević, Filip Krstonijević and Spasoje Zlatičanin on suspicion of creating a criminal organization and smuggling drugs from Albania through Montenegro toward Bosnia and Herzegovina, while Slađan Đinović was also arrested.[2]

According to the indictment, Milan Janković and Toni Junčaj organized the criminal group in 2021 and 2022 across Montenegro, Albania, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Austria and the Netherlands.[1] The SDT alleges that the group recruited members and organized marijuana transfers from Montenegro to neighbouring countries and EU member states using encrypted messaging phones.[1] Prosecutors accuse the organizers of recruiting couriers to transport marijuana or cocaine, arranging houses to store and repackage drugs, and supplying money and encrypted phones for purchases.[3] Milović is additionally accused of buying 12 pistols of various brands and calibres plus a Heckler & Koch USP Compact pistol in Bar in May 2021 without weapons documents and of inciting an unattempted murder.[1]

In March 2025, a panel of the Higher Court in Podgorica confirmed the SDT indictment against the 11 defendants using data from the ANOM application.[4] Confirmation followed prosecution appeals after the Higher Court initially excluded USB evidence from the encrypted ANOM app before the Appellate Court overturned that ruling.[4] Prosecutors said it was the first confirmed indictment in Montenegro in which electronic evidence from the formerly encrypted ANOM application was accepted as legally valid.[2]