The Budva police arrested Ivan Ražnatović (35) from Cetinje, on suspicion of having committed the criminal offense of abuse of position in business operations, the Police Administration announced.
The police suspect that Ražnatović, in his capacity as executive director of the Aksiom 5 rent-a-car agency from Budva, abused his position, on two occasions used or enabled the use of four forged bank cards, with which two successful transactions were made at the POS terminal of NLB Montenegrobanka, in in the amounts of 4,3 thousand and 2,23 thousand euros.
Raznatovic's lawyer said that his client was not a credit card forger, but, as the owner of the agency, he allowed foreign nationals, Russians and Ukrainians, to pay for car rentals using credit cards, which turned out to be forged.
It is suspected that after the transactions, Ražnatović submitted to the bank falsified vehicle rental contracts for the stated amounts.
Based on them, the bank, believing them to be credible, verified the transactions as successful and approved the transfer of money to the account of Aksiom 5.
Illegal transactions, as the police suspect, were carried out on April 6 and May 19, and the total damage to the bank is 6,53 thousand euros.
Ražnatović's lawyer, Rajko Bojović, said in a statement sent to "Vijesta" that his client was not a credit card forger, but, as the owner of a rent-a-car agency, allowed foreign nationals, Russians and Ukrainians, to pay for car rentals through credit cards, for which turned out to be forged.
"I emphasize that my client has nothing to do with forgery, because he has all the necessary information about the issuance of the car, as well as the names of the people who rented the cars," said Bojović.
The police stated that on the same day that he was arrested, on Friday, Ražnatović was handed over to the Basic State Prosecutor in Kotor with a criminal complaint, due to reasonable suspicion that he had committed the aforementioned criminal act.
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