In 2009, two Swiss companies planned to take over a stake in the Pljeval companies of accused drug lord Darko Šarić and his associate, the late Dragan Dudić Fric, worth more than four million euros.
That million-dollar transaction was supposed to be completed only two months after more than 2,5 tons of cocaine were seized as part of the "Balkan Warrior" operation in South America, and Šarić left Podgorica and went to Geneva to avoid arrest.
This information was obtained by "Vijesti" by reviewing the company register documentation of two now defunct Swiss companies "K Eurotech SA" and "Ingepar SA", which were founded in Geneva at the same address, on the same date, December 8, 2009.
In the statutes of both companies from Switzerland, the company "Mat construction", founded by Šarić's company "Mat company", and "Montenegro cement company", owned by Dragan Dudić and controversial businessman, president of the German company "Cemag" Ali Memari Farid, are mentioned.
Darko's brother Duško Šarić and his business partner Jovica Lončar were registered as the owners of the "Mat company" on October 26, 2009, that is, ten days after the large seizure of cocaine in South America.
In the statute of the Swiss company "K Eurotech SA" it is written that after the establishment they plan to take over 39 percent of the capital of the company "Mat construction" and "Montenegro cement company", in the total amount of almost four million euros (5.900.800 Swiss francs at the time).
On the other hand, in the documents of the company "Ingepar SA" it was stated that they plan to take over 2,5 percent of the capital in each of these companies from Pljeval, that is, about 250.000 euros (378.250 Swiss francs at the time).
From the documents of the company register, it is not possible to see who was the owner of the mentioned companies from Switzerland, but they had the same chairman of the board and secretary.
In the company "K Eurotech SA", which was closed last year, it was stated that the president of the board of directors is businessman Lucien Zanella, and the board member is Benedict Damien Felix Fontanet and the secretary is Jean-Francois Chevally.
In another company, "Ingepar SA", the president of the board of directors was Zanella, a member of Chevally, and the secretary was Tsimaratos Jean-Louis, a partner in the FTB financial group.
The capital of the company "Mat construction", which is now called "Tera Ing", amounted to over 7.000.000 euros in July 2011, when the Montenegrin state authorities seized it as part of the investigation into the laundering of Šarić's money earned by smuggling cocaine. On the other hand, "Montenegro cement company" is still active, and its assets have never been seized by state authorities.
After Dudić's death, the position of founder in that company was taken over by the mysterious company "Bellona Investments SA" from the Marshall Islands, which in 2010 had a capital of 3.046.360 euros.
On the website From the Central Register of Business Entities (CRPS) it can now be seen that "Montenegro cement company" no longer has capital. Jovica Lončar and Darko Šarić traveled to Geneva on October 15, 2009, the same day when cocaine was seized in South America.
The media announced last year that the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Petar Ivanović, traveled on the same plane, at the expense of Šarić, which he denied.
Lončar, together with Duško Šarić, was sentenced in Montenegro to five and a half years in prison for laundering more than 19 million euros, while Šarić is on trial in Serbia for cocaine smuggling and money laundering.
The government canceled the concession for the cement plant
In 2010, the Government of Montenegro granted the companies "Montenegro cement company" and "Colas SA" from France a concession for the construction of a cement plant in Pljevlje, but canceled the license three years later, because the company did not conclude the contract within 15 days, nor did it later was interested in him, and another investor appeared, the company "Sfera" from St. Petersburg.
Representatives of the "Cemag" group, Ali Memari Farda, a partner of the late Dudić in the company "Montenegro Cement Company", showed interest in the construction of a cement plant in Pljevlja as early as October 2007.
But Memari Fard officially informed the former president of the Pljeval Municipality Filip Vuković in a letter about his interest in building a cement plant. Fard was under investigation in Germany for alleged fraud.
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