From Knežević to the prosecutor's associate

The former driver and head of the Atlas Group courier service, Vlatko Rašović, has been confirmed as an accomplice witness in another proceeding against fugitive banker Duško Knežević.

The decision to have Rašović testify against the current boss was confirmed by the panel of Podgorica High Court Judge Vesna Pean.

The interlocutor of "Vijesti" involved in the investigation said that it is uncertain whether Rašović's cooperation with the Special State Prosecutor's Office will end there, or whether he will receive the same status in another case against a criminal organization which, according to the SDT, was formed by a banker with warrants.

Rašović was recently confirmed as an accomplice witness in the proceedings in which Knežević's criminal organization is suspected of embezzlement amounting to around 8.000.000 euros.

Rašović allegedly told the prosecutors in detail about Knežević's embezzlements, about which he knows a lot because, by his own admission, he himself participated in them.

After that testimony, the Special Prosecutor's Office recently proposed to the High Court to grant him the status of witness - collaborator in two cases.

The chief special prosecutor Milivoje Katnić last night, in a guest appearance on the show "Ziva istina", said that the cooperating witnesses in the proceedings against Knežević are his closest associates.

According to the knowledge of "Vijesti", based on Rašović's confession, the investigators allegedly obtained a number of material evidences, including a notebook in which Knežević kept records - to whom he gave and to whom he intended to give money. Knežević previously denied that he kept records of the given money in any notebook.

Rašović's testimony allegedly confirmed the other evidence of the SDT, especially in the part of how, when and through which channels the money obtained through criminal activities was spent.

The investigators do not doubt Rašović's testimony because, as he admits, he was in charge of delivering the cash to the members of the criminal group.

Rašović was arrested at the end of September 2017, when the Special State Prosecutor's Office launched an investigation into money laundering.

In the same operation, five more drivers of "Atlas Group" were arrested. In the continuation of the investigation, the former mayor of Podgorica, Slavoljub Stijepović, was also suspected of helping to launder that money, after Knežević published the video that started the Koverta scandal.

While a guest on Darko Šuković's show, Katnić confirmed information to TV Vijesta about Knežević's "books" in which the money was transferred.

The GST showed the book, seized during the search of Knežević's houses, in which the pages were cut out, and money in denominations of 500 euros was placed in them.

In this way, he claims, hundreds of millions of euros were taken out of Montenegro.