The Special Prosecutor's Office heard two Italians who allegedly mediated between the former high-ranking DPS official Svetozar Marović and the Swiss administration, in order to prevent the evidence of his wife Đorđina's secret multi-million dollar account from reaching the local prosecutor's office.
A source from the investigation told "Vijesta" that Italian lawyers, who allegedly bribed the Swiss on behalf of Marović, were questioned in the prosecution.
He also said that the case is classified as confidential.
The prosecutor's office is checking whether Marović's former friend, Veselin Mujović, handed them 450.000 Swiss francs, which was the "cost" of Budvanin to cover up the evidence of his wife's multimillion-dollar account in the local HSBC bank.
The Special State Prosecutor's Office headed by Milivoje Katnić opened an investigation into the case after the arrest of Mujović, who allegedly told them that he mediated between Marović and the Italians.
The man from Podgorica then told the prosecutors that he found lawyers in Italy on behalf of a former high-ranking DPS official and took the money to them, because Marović was afraid that Montenegrin investigators would get documents that would confirm that he had been hiding millions in Switzerland for years. At that time, the prosecution opened an investigation into the secret account of the wife of the former president of the SiCG state union.
According to "Vijesti" information, Mujović also told the prosecutors that after the scandal about Djordjena's hidden millions broke out, that money was "removed" from the account by Marović's former adviser, Serbian citizen Olivera Ilinčić, who had the authority to do so.
Ilinčić is one of the suspects in several corruption cases in Budva.
Prosecutors became interested in Djordjena's account after MANS and a network of investigative journalists announced that she had 2006 dollars in the Swiss HSBC bank in 2007 and 3.800.000.
In 2015, MANS submitted to the Supreme State Prosecutor (VDT) complete documentation that, as they stated, refers to the property of the Marović family in a secret account abroad, which there is a well-founded suspicion that it was acquired illegally.
The account marked "Milena" was opened on February 6, 1998, and access was given to Đorđina, Svetozar Marović and their son Miloš. Marović previously publicly announced that the information about the secret account in Switzerland was not correct. At that time, the Prosecution asked Switzerland to check the secret account of the family of Svetozar Marović, and the evidence was also requested a few months ago.
The public has not yet been informed whether they have received documents from Switzerland about the alleged millions of Svetozar Marović.
Svetozar Marović admitted to Katnić's prosecutors that he is the head of an organized criminal group that damaged the budget of the Municipality of Budva by tens of millions of euros.
Last week, he was supposed to report to the Spuška prison to serve his prison sentence, but he avoided going to the cell due to alleged treatment in Belgrade.
Veselin Mujović's trial will start in two days
According to the knowledge of "Vijesti", Veselin Mujović was not invited to clarify his knowledge about the deletion of traces of Marović's account in Switzerland after the first statement given to the prosecutors.
The interlocutor of "Vijesti" said that Mujović will be the main witness in that case, if the prosecution proves that Marović bribed the Swiss.
Mujović was arrested in mid-February on the order of the Special State Prosecutor's Office, which suspected him of repeatedly defrauding Svetozar Marović and Budvanin Ljub Radjenović, the father of the former mayor of Budva, Lazar Radjenović.
Allegedly, he took 890.000 euros from Marović and 20.000 from Rađenović by offering them help in the investigations conducted by the Special Prosecutor's Office against Marović and Rađenović.
Although he was arrested by order of the Special Prosecutor's Office, the case was "downgraded" to Basic, where twenty witnesses were heard. Almost none of them could confirm Marović's allegations that he had given money to Podgorica. Mujović claimed during the hearing that this was not true and that the indictment could not be proven.
Mujović's trial begins in two days.
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