Djukanovic Faces Grilling Over Journalist's Death

Montenegro's Prime Minister faces an imminent grilling by the judicial authorities after the Supreme State Prosecutor on Tuesday said Milo Djukanovic would "soon" be questioned as part of a reopened investigation into the 2004 murder of a journalist.

"Djukanovic's hearing will be conducted soon," Prosecutor Veselin Vuckovic said, although he did not announce a precise date for the hearing of the Prime Minister.

Dusko Jovanovic, who was both editor-in-chief and owner of the daily newspaper Dan, and well known for taking a critical line towards the governent, was shot dead leaving his office in Podgorica on 27 May 2004. Prior to his death, Jovanovic received numerous death threats.

Damir Mandic was jailed for 18 years in 2012 as an accomplice to the crime, but remains the only perpetrator to be convicted. The masterminds behind the murder are still at large.

The only step forward in a decade has been the recent announcement by the state prosecutor that the investigation has been reopened and that several people have been interrogated.

Prosecutors in Podgorica relaunched a probe into the unsolved murder back in February. It resumed with the questioning of several top policemen, including the former head of the Podgorica force, Milan Vijanovic, and senior officers Milan Tomic and Tihomir Gacevic.

The prosecution said it will request additional information from former Interior Minister Andrija Jovicevic, investigating judge Miroslav Basovic and Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Minister Dusko Markovic, who was intelligence chief in 2004.

Earlier, the state prosecutor Vuckovic said the prosecution had checked every detail of the existing investigation into the murder.

"The prosecution will not stop there, it...

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