The Higher Court has blocked four business premises of the alleged member of the Kavaka criminal group, Igor Andrić, because the investigators of the Special Prosecutor's Office suspect that they were bought with money obtained from crime.
Andrić bought the valuable property on the ground floor of the Vektra building in Podgorica from a former football player, now manager - Mateja Kežman.
Kežman, who, according to Serbian media, is under investigation by international investigators on suspicion of being part of a group that laundered 30 million euros through embezzlement during the transfer of football players in Belgium, sold four business premises of 40 square meters each three years ago.
At the request of the team headed by Milivoje Katnić, the High Court passed a temporary measure prohibiting the disposal and use of assets worth millions of kavaka group headed by Slobodan Kašćelan at the beginning of November.
Dozens of apartments, houses, plots of land and movable property from Kotor to Podgorica were under the blockade of the state, which, as financial investigators suspect, one of the strongest criminal groups in the region acquired with money obtained from the sale of narcotics, through racketeering.
In one of the largest international police actions due to fraud in football, two of Kežman's supposedly closest associates - Uroš Janković, who was arrested in Belgrade, and Dejan Veljković, who was handcuffed in Belgium - were recently behind bars.
According to numerous media reports, the three of them are members of the management team that managed the transfer of one of today's most sought-after footballers, Sergej Milinković-Savić, who moved from FC Vojvodina to the Belgian Genk.
The action against the group suspected of malfeasance with transfers, match-fixing and money laundering was launched by Belgium under the code name "Clean Hands", and the Serbian BIA and the Special Prosecutor's Office are participating in it.
Allegedly, it is suspected that at least 30 million euros were "laundered" in those deals and that Kežman could be the next target of the police.
According to Belgian media, Veljković was arrested in a group with 29 football managers, referees, coaches, club officials and journalists in that country. At the same time, Belgium asked the Serbian judiciary to arrest Janković, a Montenegrin citizen who was ordered into extradition custody.
Criminal proceedings are being conducted against Andrić before the High Court Judge Dragoj Jović, in which 15 members of the fraud group are charged with racketeering, money laundering, drug sales, bribery... According to the investigators' suspicions, the group was led by Kašćelan, who is on the run, and his associates Vladimir Božović, Miloš Radonjić, Siniša Vlahović, Aleksandar and Igor Đurišić and Davor Prelević.
On the dock are Goran Ljubatović, Nikola and Igor Andrić from Kotor, Tripo Moškov, Stefan Brnović and Aleksandra Bogdanović, Đerđ Camaj from Podgorica, police inspector Zlatko Samardžić and Ilija Dedović.
Andrić said at one of the trials that as a seafarer he earns a hundred thousand euros a year and that he had no need to engage in crime.
The Court of Appeal revoked the measure by which Andrić was forbidden to leave Kotor.
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