Mugošini claim that it is peaceful until autumn

Montenegro's ambassador to Slovenia and former mayor of Podgorica, Miomir Mugoša, will not be arrested until the fall because he allegedly made an "agreement" with the Special State Prosecutor's Office to "pause" until his diplomatic mandate expires, several sources close to Mugoša claim.

Chief Special Prosecutor Milivoje Katnić denied this yesterday.

"The questions you mentioned are not within the scope of the activities and work of the Special State Prosecutor's Office. The Special State Prosecutor's Office in this case, as in every other case, acts exclusively according to the Constitution and laws, and not according to any "agreements", writes Katnić in his answer to the question of "Vijesti" whether this is true and, if so, to explain it.

Special Prosecutor Živko Savović, according to the unofficial information of "Vijesti", completed the investigation in the "Bazar" case.

"Vijesti" sources close to the investigation claim that the prosecutor's next step should have been to interrogate Mugoša as a suspect and open an investigation.

The same sources claim that the current Minister of Tourism and Sustainable Development, Pavle Radulović, who was the city manager of the Capital City of Podgorica, will also be a suspect in that case.

At the end of 2015, Katnić publicly announced an investigation into the "Bazar" and "Carine" cases. At the beginning of last year, the then head of the Department for Suppression of Economic Crime, and now the head of the Special Police Team, Dragan Radonjić, said that the police had completed the investigation and that they had handed over all the collected information to the prosecutor's office.

At the end of September, Mugoša was interviewed for several hours as a witness at the Special Prosecutor's Office, and the trial of the former administrator of the Capital City, Željko M. Vuković, who is now the assistant director of the Waterworks, is ongoing. Vuković is accused of causing damage to the budget of Podgorica in the amount of 1.662.250 euros during the construction of the Bazar shopping center for the benefit of the "Čelebić" company.

The SDT opened the investigation in the Bazar case after the Democrats handed them documentation in 2015, which states that Vuković illegally exempted the Ćelebić company from paying utility taxes twice.

At the end of 2011, the Administration of Local Public Revenues passed decisions based on which the company "Čelebić", owned by Tomislav Čelebić, is obliged to pay 1.662.250 euros to the Capital City on behalf of the local communal tax for the use of space on public surfaces. It was only after two years that Vuković decided on these decisions, annulled them and sent them back to the Administration for a new decision.

In April 2014, the administration again passed the same, binding decisions. After the local elections in Podgorica, and immediately before leaving office, in July 2014, Vuković again annulled the decisions of the Administration.

Mugoša, as a witness in this case, stated that it was an extraordinary job for the Municipality.

In this, according to Mugoša's assessment, an extraordinary deal, the Capital and "Čelebić" invested the same amount of money in the construction of the Bazaar, four million euros each. In the end, the city got half of the built-up square footage, but that's half of the parking space and the green market. Celebić received nearly 6.000 square meters of exclusive business space (supermarket, shops, boutiques...). In addition, after construction, the city leased all parking spaces to "Čelebić" for 20.000 euros per year.

Thus, "Čelebić" manages the shopping center almost entirely.

After Mugoša and Čelebić officially opened the shopping center in October 2012, it became clear that in addition to the ground floor and the first floor stipulated in the contract, a second floor with an area of ​​about 3.000 square meters was also built.

In the criminal report of the Democrats, it is stated that a month after the opening, an annex to the contract was drawn up and only then was it specified that everything belonged to Čelebić. In December 2012, the second annex was signed, with which the calculation was made according to which the capital city allegedly received as much as it invested in this business. For the invested four million, a total of 3,8 million was obtained, based on the calculation that a square parking lot is worth 450, and green markets 1.90 euros.