Montenegro’s ex-interior minister and former top member of the ruling Europe Now (PES) party Andrej Milovic has claimed that ex-prime minister Dritan Abazovic and the head of the special police unit (SPO), Predrag Sukovic, plotted to arrest current Prime Minister Milojko Spajic ahead of the last general election.

Spajic's PES won the June 2023 general election, despite media reports linking him to fugitive crypto mogul Do Kwon that surfaced in the days before the vote. After months of negotiations he formed a government in October, replacing Abazovic's caretaker cabinet. 

Milovic left the government after a spat with Spajic, who is also the leader of PES. His statement came as a surprise as he has been a loud critic of Spajic over the past months.

“We have received information from the Agency for National Security (ANB) and its employees who have been informing us constantly that the head of the SPO and Abazovic are arranging the arrest of Spajic,” Milovic said in an interview with A+ TV channel on September 22.

He added that the two planned to use a staged affair of alleged connections between Spajic and Do Kwon, the Korean entrepreneur entangled in a high-profile legal battle over a major cryptocurrency collapse, as a pretext for the arrest.

In early June, shortly before the June 11 general election, Spajic was accused of having business with Kwon, who was arrested in Podgorica in March.

At the time, Abazovic claimed that Kwon had sent him a letter claiming that he financed Europe Now. He said the letter would be forwarded to the prosecution.

In June, government and prosecution sources said unofficially that Do Kwon’s handwritten letter claimed that he has known Spajic since 2018 and that they held meetings in Serbia’s capital Belgrade.

Spajic responded, saying that Kwon is a fraudster and that it was Europe Now that informed the police that he was in the country. He also said that Kwon has cheated a lot of people, including his friends and the company for which he worked in 2018.

Spajic said that he was informed by his friends from the crypto industry that an attempt would be made to connect him to Kwon.

Milovic also claimed that the SPO contributed to the spat between himself, Spajic and President Jakov Milatovic, who was deputy-leader of PES but left the party in April.