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searchaux" style="display:none">2016 alleged Russian-backed coup d'état plot in Montenegro</div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Milo_%C3%90ukanovi%C4%87_2016.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Milo_%C3%90ukanovi%C4%87_2016.jpg/170px-Milo_%C3%90ukanovi%C4%87_2016.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="241" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Milo_%C3%90ukanovi%C4%87_2016.jpg/255px-Milo_%C3%90ukanovi%C4%87_2016.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Milo_%C3%90ukanovi%C4%87_2016.jpg/340px-Milo_%C3%90ukanovi%C4%87_2016.jpg 2x" data-file-width="631" data-file-height="895" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/President_of_Montenegro" title="President of Montenegro">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Milo_%C4%90ukanovi%C4%87" title="Milo Đukanović">Milo Đukanović</a>, whose <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_of_Socialists_of_Montenegro" title="Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro">DPS</a> ruled the country for three decades, established a <a href="/wiki/Hybrid_regime" title="Hybrid regime">hybrid regime</a> through alleged <a href="/wiki/Strongman_(politics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Strongman (politics)">strongman tactics</a>. Here, he is pictured after signing Montenegro's NATO accession protocol.</figcaption></figure> <p>A <a href="/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="Coup d'état">coup d'état</a> in the capital of <a href="/wiki/Montenegro" title="Montenegro">Montenegro</a>, <a href="/wiki/Podgorica" title="Podgorica">Podgorica</a> was allegedly planned and prepared for 16 October 2016, the day of the <a href="/wiki/Montenegrin_parliamentary_election,_2016" class="mw-redirect" title="Montenegrin parliamentary election, 2016">parliamentary election</a>, according to Montenegro's special prosecutor.<sup id="cite_ref-fpri_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fpri-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In September 2017, the trial of those indicted in connection with the plot began in the High Court in <a href="/wiki/Podgorica" title="Podgorica">Podgorica</a>, the indictees including leaders of the <a href="/wiki/Opposition_(politics)" title="Opposition (politics)">Montenegrin opposition</a> and two alleged Russian intelligence agents. <a href="/wiki/Russian_government" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian government">Russian government</a> officials denied any involvement.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2019, the Higher Court found the accused guilty of plotting to commit ″terrorist acts″, also of "undermine the constitutional order of Montenegro" and first instance sentenced 13 people. In February 2021, the appellate court annulled the first instance verdict on all counts of the indictment.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The acquittals were upheld on appeal in July 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-BI-12-07-2024_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BI-12-07-2024-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2016_Montenegrin_coup_attempt_allegations&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/2015%E2%80%932016_Montenegrin_crisis" title="2015–2016 Montenegrin crisis">2015–2016 Montenegrin crisis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Montenegro%E2%80%93NATO_relations" title="Montenegro–NATO relations">Montenegro–NATO relations</a></div> <p>It is believed that the plot was designed as a last-ditch attempt by the Montenegrin pro-Serbian and pro-Russian opposition to prevent <a href="/wiki/Montenegro%E2%80%93NATO_relations" title="Montenegro–NATO relations">Montenegro's accession</a> to <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a move stridently opposed by Russia's government that had issued direct threats to Montenegro concerning such eventuality.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-protok_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-protok-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This theory was re-affirmed by the court verdict handed down in 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-reutsentenced_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reutsentenced-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Arrests_and_alleged_plot">Arrests and alleged plot</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2016_Montenegrin_coup_attempt_allegations&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Arrests and alleged plot"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output 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style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">16 October 2016 arrests</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Planned by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Interior_Affairs_(Montenegro)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Interior Affairs (Montenegro)">Ministry of Interior Affairs</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Objective</th><td class="infobox-data">Capture alleged coup conspirators</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Date</th><td class="infobox-data">16 October 2016</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Executed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_Montenegro" class="mw-redirect" title="Law enforcement in Montenegro">Law enforcement</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Outcome</th><td class="infobox-data">20 arrests</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>On the eve of 16 October 2016, the day of the <a href="/wiki/Montenegrin_parliamentary_election,_2016" class="mw-redirect" title="Montenegrin parliamentary election, 2016">parliamentary election</a> in Montenegro, a group of 20 Serbian and Montenegrin citizens, including the former head of <a href="/wiki/Gendarmery_(Serbia)" title="Gendarmery (Serbia)">Serbian Gendarmery</a> <a href="/wiki/Bratislav_Diki%C4%87" title="Bratislav Dikić">Bratislav Dikić</a>, were arrested;<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> some of them, along with other persons, including two Russian citizens, were later formally charged by the authorities of Montenegro with an attempted <a href="/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="Coup d'état">coup d'état</a>. In early November 2016, Montenegro's special prosecutor for organised crime and corruption, Milivoje Katnić, alleged that "a powerful organisation" that comprised about 500 people from Russia, Serbia and Montenegro was behind the coup plot.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In February 2017, Montenegrin officials accused the Russian 'state structures' of being behind the attempted coup, which allegedly envisaged an attack on the country's parliament and assassination of prime minister <a href="/wiki/Milo_%C4%90ukanovi%C4%87" title="Milo Đukanović">Milo Đukanović</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The details about the coup plot were first made public at the end of October 2016 by Serbia's prime minister <a href="/wiki/Aleksandar_Vu%C4%8Di%C4%87" title="Aleksandar Vučić">Aleksandar Vučić</a>, whose public statement on the matter stressed the role of Serbia's law enforcers, especially the Serbian <a href="/wiki/Security_Intelligence_Agency" title="Security Intelligence Agency">Security Intelligence Agency</a>, in thwarting it.<sup id="cite_ref-dzukanpokus_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dzukanpokus-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The statement was immediately followed by an unscheduled visit to <a href="/wiki/Belgrade" title="Belgrade">Belgrade</a> by <a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Patrushev" title="Nikolai Patrushev">Nikolai Patrushev</a>, secretary of Russia's <a href="/wiki/Security_Council_of_Russia" title="Security Council of Russia">Security Council</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-dzukanpokus_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dzukanpokus-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the prime minister <a href="/wiki/Du%C5%A1ko_Markovi%C4%87" title="Duško Marković">Duško Marković</a>′s statements made in February 2017, the government received definitive information about the coup being prepared on 12 October 2016, when a person involved in the plot gave away the fallback scenario of his Russian minders; this information was also corroborated by the security services of NATO member countries, who helped the Montenegrin government to investigate the plot.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of the charged, Predrag Bogićević from Kragujevac, a veteran and leader of the Ravna Gora Movement, said that Saša Sinđelić informed him on a possible attack on Serbs who participated in the October 16th protest. Bogićević, in Serbian detention, said through his lawyer that there was no talks whatsoever on a coup and no mentions of Đukanović.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Moscow–based <a href="/wiki/Russian_Institute_for_Strategic_Studies" title="Russian Institute for Strategic Studies">Russian Institute for Strategic Studies</a> (RISS), which has close ties to Russian <a href="/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Service_(Russia)" title="Foreign Intelligence Service (Russia)">Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)</a>, was mentioned by mass media as one of the organisations involved in devising the coup plot; in early November 2017, Russian president <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a> sacked the RISS director, <a href="/wiki/Leonid_Petrovich_Reshetnikov" title="Leonid Petrovich Reshetnikov">Leonid P. Reshetnikov</a>, a ranking veteran officer of the SVR.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Persons_alleged_to_be_involved">Persons alleged to be involved</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2016_Montenegrin_coup_attempt_allegations&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Persons alleged to be involved"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia"><img alt="Russia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> Eduard Shishmakov,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/GRU_(G.U.)" class="mw-redirect" title="GRU (G.U.)">GRU</a>, conspirator, not extradited</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia"><img alt="Russia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> Vladimir Popov,<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> GRU, conspirator, not extradited</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Serbia" title="Serbia"><img alt="Serbia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Flag_of_Serbia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Serbia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Flag_of_Serbia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Serbia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Flag_of_Serbia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Serbia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1350" data-file-height="900" /></a></span></span><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Austria" title="Austria"><img alt="Austria" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/45px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> Saša "Aleksandar" Sinđelić, prosecutor's witness</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Montenegro" title="Montenegro"><img alt="Montenegro" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Flag_of_Montenegro.svg/23px-Flag_of_Montenegro.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Flag_of_Montenegro.svg/35px-Flag_of_Montenegro.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Flag_of_Montenegro.svg/46px-Flag_of_Montenegro.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Andrija_Mandi%C4%87" title="Andrija Mandić">Andrija Mandić</a>, leader of <a href="/wiki/New_Serb_Democracy" title="New Serb Democracy">New Serb Democracy</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Montenegro" title="Montenegro"><img alt="Montenegro" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Flag_of_Montenegro.svg/23px-Flag_of_Montenegro.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Flag_of_Montenegro.svg/35px-Flag_of_Montenegro.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Flag_of_Montenegro.svg/46px-Flag_of_Montenegro.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Milan_Kne%C5%BEevi%C4%87_(Montenegrin_politician)" title="Milan Knežević (Montenegrin politician)">Milan Knežević</a>, leader of <a href="/wiki/Democratic_People%27s_Party_(Montenegro)" title="Democratic People's Party (Montenegro)">Democratic People's Party</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Montenegro" title="Montenegro"><img alt="Montenegro" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Flag_of_Montenegro.svg/23px-Flag_of_Montenegro.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Flag_of_Montenegro.svg/35px-Flag_of_Montenegro.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Flag_of_Montenegro.svg/46px-Flag_of_Montenegro.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> Mihailo Čađenović, Andrija Mandić's driver</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Serbia" title="Serbia"><img alt="Serbia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Flag_of_Serbia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Serbia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Flag_of_Serbia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Serbia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Flag_of_Serbia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Serbia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1350" data-file-height="900" /></a></span></span> Several Serbian nationals, including <a href="/wiki/Bratislav_Diki%C4%87" title="Bratislav Dikić">Bratislav Dikić</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Criminal_prosecution,_trial,_and_verdict"><span id="Criminal_prosecution.2C_trial.2C_and_verdict"></span>Criminal prosecution, trial, and verdict</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2016_Montenegrin_coup_attempt_allegations&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Criminal prosecution, trial, and verdict"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In early June 2017, the High Court in <a href="/wiki/Podgorica" title="Podgorica">Podgorica</a> confirmed the indictment of 14 people, including two <a href="/wiki/Russians" title="Russians">Russians</a> and two pro-Russia Montenegrin opposition leaders, <a href="/wiki/Andrija_Mandi%C4%87" title="Andrija Mandić">Andrija Mandić</a> and Milan Knežević (the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Front_(Montenegro)" title="Democratic Front (Montenegro)">Democratic Front</a>), who had been charged with "preparing a conspiracy against the constitutional order and the security of Montenegro" and an "attempted terrorist act."<sup id="cite_ref-rferlcoup_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rferlcoup-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Officials alleged that the plotters had conspired to take over parliament during the October 2016 parliamentary election, assassinate then-prime minister Milo Đukanović, and install a pro-Russian government in order to halt Montenegro's bid to join NATO.<sup id="cite_ref-murkypolitico_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-murkypolitico-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-rferlcoup_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rferlcoup-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to the prosecution, the relevant orders had been received by Saša Sinđelić, an <a href="/wiki/Austria" title="Austria">Austria</a>-born Serbian citizen previously convicted of murder in <a href="/wiki/Croatia" title="Croatia">Croatia</a> and now acting as a witness for the prosecution,<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> from Eduard Shishmakov (at first referred to by media as Shirokov),<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-murkypolitico_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-murkypolitico-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who had earlier been expelled from <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a> as an exposed officer of the <a href="/wiki/GRU_(Russian_Federation)" title="GRU (Russian Federation)">Russian military intelligence</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-murkypolitico_29-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-murkypolitico-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 6 September 2017, the trial of those indicted began in the High Court in Podgorica, the two Russian nationals, Eduard Shishmakov and Vladimir Popov, being tried <i><a href="/wiki/Trial_in_absentia" title="Trial in absentia">in absentia</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a separate case, on 18 October 2017 Milan Knežević was convicted of assaulting a policeman on 17 October 2015 and sentenced to 7 months in prison.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the end of October 2017, the court heard evidence from Saša Sinđelić,<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who, among other things, reportedly told the court he had learned from Eduard Shishmakov of <a href="/wiki/Ramzan_Kadyrov" title="Ramzan Kadyrov">Ramzan Kadyrov</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Head_of_the_Chechen_Republic" title="Head of the Chechen Republic">Head of the Chechen Republic</a>, being involved in the coup plot.<sup id="cite_ref-telegrchech_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-telegrchech-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the end of November 2017, the Russian daily broadsheet <i><a href="/wiki/Izvestia" title="Izvestia">Izvestia</a></i> reported that Andrija Mandić and Milan Knežević had sent a letter to Russian foreign minister <a href="/wiki/Sergey_Lavrov" title="Sergey Lavrov">Sergey Lavrov</a>, saying Kadyrov had figured in the indictment starting from the previous week and requesting Russia's support.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-telegrchech_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-telegrchech-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The defence sought to question the credibility and psychiatric competence of the prosecutor's witness.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In early June 2018, the court in Podgorica heard evidence from Brian Scott, a former CIA operative and the chief executive officer of a U.S. risk-management company Patriot Defense Group: he was questioned by prosecutors about these events. Scott stated that his company, Strategic Risk Management, refused the request due to reports of a connection between Democratic Front and Russian intelligence officers.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In July 2018, the Montenegrin prosecutors launched a formal investigation into other's alleged role in the coup plot.<sup id="cite_ref-reutsentenced_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reutsentenced-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-balkaninsight.com_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-balkaninsight.com-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 9 May 2019, the Higher Court in Montenegro found guilty of plotting to commit ″terrorist acts″ and undermine the constitutional order of Montenegro during the 2016 parliamentary election and first instance sentenced 13 people, including the two alleged Russian military intelligence officers, Eduard Shishmakov and Vladimir Popov (to 15 and 12 years in prison, in absentia, respectively), and two opposition leaders, Andrija Mandić and Milan Knežević (five-year jail terms each); Bratislav Dikić was sentenced to eight years in jail.<sup id="cite_ref-reutsentenced_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reutsentenced-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-balkaninsight.com_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-balkaninsight.com-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Annulment_of_the_verdict">Annulment of the verdict</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2016_Montenegrin_coup_attempt_allegations&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Annulment of the verdict"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 5 February 2021, the Court of Appeals of Montenegro annulled the first instance verdict on all counts of the indictment. "The Council annulled the first-instance verdict because significant violations of the provisions of the criminal procedure were committed in the procedure of its passing and in the verdict itself, due to which neither factual nor legal conclusions could be accepted in the first-instance verdict, as in the existence of criminal offenses guilty, as well as in relation to the existence of their guilt for the acts", it is stated in the announcement of the appellate court. The "coup d'état" case was returned to the High Court in Podgorica, for a retrial before a completely changed composition. Many saw the decisions of the appellate court as a confirmation of then ruling <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_of_Socialists" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic Party of Socialists">Democratic Party of Socialists</a>'s mounted political process against its <a href="/wiki/Opposition_(politics)" title="Opposition (politics)">political opposition</a>, and proof that the first instance verdict was passed under the pressure of the then DPS-led government in Montenegro.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Retrial">Retrial</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2016_Montenegrin_coup_attempt_allegations&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Retrial"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Montenegrin Higher Court refused in April 2023 to split the retrial into two, with one involving Mandić, Knežević and Čađenović, and the other with 10 defendants, so secret documents could be presented by the prosecution.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Starting in June 2023, it was originally scheduled to continue in October 2023, however the retrial continuation date was moved to February 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The court ruled to uphold the acquittals in July 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-BI-12-07-2024_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BI-12-07-2024-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Aftermath">Aftermath</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2016_Montenegrin_coup_attempt_allegations&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Aftermath"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Accession_of_Montenegro_to_NATO" class="mw-redirect" title="Accession of Montenegro to NATO">Accession of Montenegro to NATO</a> and <a href="/wiki/2020_Montenegrin_parliamentary_election" title="2020 Montenegrin parliamentary election">2020 Montenegrin parliamentary election</a></div> <p>On 28 April 2017, Montenegro's parliament voted 46–0 to join NATO, while the majority of opposition parties kept boycotting parliament sessions and protesters burned NATO flags outside.<sup id="cite_ref-murkypolitico_29-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-murkypolitico-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tensions between Montenegro and Russia continued to escalate thereafter.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In November 2019, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense" title="United States Department of Defense">U.S. Department of Defense</a>-authorized, editorially independent newspaper, <i><a href="/wiki/Stars_and_Stripes_(newspaper)" title="Stars and Stripes (newspaper)">Stars and Stripes</a></i>, cited the "<a href="/wiki/Hybrid_warfare" title="Hybrid warfare">hybrid</a> attack during [Montenegrin] elections in 2016" as an explanation why the first NATO counter-hybrid warfare team was being deployed to Montenegro.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2019 the then <a href="/wiki/Foreign_Secretary" title="Foreign Secretary">Foreign Secretary</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Hunt" title="Jeremy Hunt">Jeremy Hunt</a>, stated: <i>The failed coup attempt against Montenegro in 2016 was one of the most outrageous examples of Russia’s attempts to undermine European democracy. The GRU’s brazen attempt to interfere with Montenegro’s national elections and undermine Montenegro’s application to join NATO is yet another example of destabilising and aggressive Russian behaviour over the last decade.</i><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 1 September 2020, Montenegrin President Milo Đukanović accused Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and <a href="/wiki/Media_of_Serbia" class="mw-redirect" title="Media of Serbia">Belgrade-based media</a> of interfering in the internal politics of Montenegro, as well of alleged trying to revive a "Greater Serbia policy".<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2016_Montenegrin_coup_attempt_allegations&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 42em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_coups_d%27%C3%A9tat_and_coup_attempts_since_2010" class="mw-redirect" title="List of coups d'état and coup attempts since 2010">List of coups d'état and coup attempts since 2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russia_involvement_in_regime_change" class="mw-redirect" title="Russia involvement in regime change">Russia involvement in regime change</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NATO-Russia_relations" class="mw-redirect" title="NATO-Russia relations">NATO-Russia relations</a>, <a href="/wiki/Montenegro-NATO_relations" class="mw-redirect" title="Montenegro-NATO relations">Montenegro-NATO relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015%E2%80%9316_Montenegrin_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="2015–16 Montenegrin crisis">2015–16 Montenegrin crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Montenegrin_parliamentary_election" title="2016 Montenegrin parliamentary election">2016 Montenegrin parliamentary election</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2016_Montenegrin_coup_attempt_allegations&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Originally presented as "Eduard Shirokov", by Montenegro's special prosecutor Katnić and his office.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">His real name is alleged by <a href="/wiki/Bellingcat" title="Bellingcat">Bellingcat</a> and <a href="/wiki/Russia_Insider" title="Russia Insider">The Insider</a> to be Vladimir Nikolaevich Moiseev<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span 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