Suspicion of tax and contribution evasion and falsification of documents: Albanian citizen arrested, criminal charges filed

M.Đ. (26) from Albania with a temporary residence and working in Montenegro was arrested due to the existence of reasonable suspicion that he committed the criminal offense of tax and contribution evasion, the Police Administration announced today.

"He committed this criminal offense as a responsible person of the company "Everest Montenegro" doo from Podgorica, by, as is suspected, avoiding the payment of taxes and contributions. It is suspected that he placed goods on the gray market in the period from January 1, 2017 to April 27, 2018, in the amount of 380.942,64 euros and thus evaded value added tax in the amount of 79.998 euros and at the same time avoided evaded the payment of profit tax for the year 2017 in the amount of 26.973,32 euros. In this way, it is suspected, MG caused material damage to the Budget of Montenegro in the amount of 106.971,32 euros," the police administration said in a statement.

The announcement adds that a criminal complaint was filed in the regular proceedings against NB (53) from Serbia with temporary residence in Montenegro to the competent prosecutor in Bar, due to the existence of reasonable suspicion that he committed the criminal offense of tax and contribution evasion.

"It is suspected that he committed this criminal offense as an authorized person in the company "Primorka Gruop" doo from Bar in the period from April 1, 2013 to December 31, 2013. NB, it is suspected, made payments of net earnings to employees for which he did not submit reports for tax duties and taxes and contributions to the personal income of employees to the competent tax authority. For the period from April to December 2013, NB did not, it is suspected , reported contributions in the amount of 119.101,82 euros," said the Police Administration.

The Police Directorate stated that as part of the action "Knjižica", a criminal complaint was submitted to the competent prosecutor's office in Podgorica in regular proceedings against PD and Š.D. from Podgorica, due to the basic suspicion that they have committed the criminal offense of document forgery.

"As employees of a company in Podgorica, they are suspected of having illegally obtained false sanitary cards in their names. During a previous inspection, the sanitary inspector found that these persons did not have sanitary cards. The owner of the facility then filed a complaint against the record and submitted copies of the sanitary cards that were suspected to be forged. The sanitary cards were confiscated and delivered to the officers of the Police Directorate. Authorized police officers in cooperation with the Directorate for Inspection Affairs and the competent state body that issued the sanitary booklets determined that the sanitary booklets were forged," the Police Administration said in a statement.

The press release also points out that a criminal complaint was filed against GM (65) from Serbia to the state prosecutor in the ODT in Rožaje, due to the existence of reasonable suspicion that she committed the criminal offense of falsifying a document in combination with the criminal offense of inducing the attestation of untrue content.

"It is suspected that she made a forged identity card in the name of ZL, who owned a plot of land, and who passed away in 2005. GM is suspected, based on these forged documents, falsely presenting herself as ZL, misleading a notary in our country who issued a power of attorney authorizing a third party - NI from Kraljevo, to sell real estate in her name and for her account that is located in Kosovo and that she owned ZL This third person, on the basis of a certified power of attorney, as is suspected, sold real estate for the amount of 50.000 euros to a person from Kosovo, and the money received, apart from the commission, was paid by GM. Proceedings based on the report of the heirs of the deceased ZL, RM, are ongoing in Serbia as well," concludes the statement of the Police Administration.