Šarić "ready to take lie detector test" - lawyer

Šarić "ready to take lie detector test" - lawyer

BELGRADE -- After it was announced that UKP chief Rodoljub Milović had passed his lie detector test, reports said that Darko Šarić also wants to take one.

The suspected drug lord who is on trial in Belgrade accused of organizing a crime group that smuggled tons of cocaine from Latin America to Europe, earlier in the week accused Milović of having ties with organized crime.

Milović, whom Šarić referred to as "General Papaya," reacted by requesting to take a polygraph test. Now Šarić's lawyer, Radoslav Baćović, says his client was not questioned about his allegations about "General Papaya" either by the prosecution or the police, and that he is "ready to submit to a polygraph test."

According to Baćović, "had members of the Working Group set up by the police to investigate allegations about the head of the Criminal Police Rodoljub Milović spoken with Šarić, his laywer would have had to attend such a conversation."

As he addressed the court on Monday, Šarić also linked Milović with a protected witness he referred to as "Mango", as well as "a sum of some EUR 7.5 million," the daily Danas reported, but noted that the accused narco boss "failed to say clearly who took that money from whom, and why."

It is believed that "Mango" is Ljubiša Buha aka Čume, a protected witness in the case against the Zemun criminal clan. Šarić also spoke about "the promises made to his friend from Kotor (in Montenegro) Dragan Dudić aka Fric," who was killed in May 2010.

Baćović proposed to the Special Court to request "footage of the meeting between Dudić and representatives of the Serbian police" from the BIA agency - a meeting that took...