The Special State Prosecutor's Office claims that in 2014, Democratic Front MP Nebojša Medojević became a member of the criminal group of a businessman wanted by Duško Knežević, from whom he took 10.000 euros of "dirty money".
Milivoj Katnić's prosecution claims that the leader of the Movement for Change took part of the money illegally obtained from the fictitious sale of the "Princess" hotel in Bar to the company "Kaspia property holding limited" from Dubi.
Medojević is suspected of money laundering, which is why the SDT, i.e. the chief special prosecutor Milivoje Katnić, asked the Assembly to waive his immunity so that the deputy could be prosecuted.
Katnić submitted the request to the parliament two days ago.
He informed the members of the Parliamentary Administrative Committee, according to "Vijesti" information, that during the criminal proceedings initiated against Knežević, the former executive director of Atlas Bank Đorđe Đurđić and the former vice-governor Velibor Milošević, a well-founded suspicion was established that Medojević committed the criminal acts of creating a criminal organization and money laundering. money.
They claim that the goal of the criminal organization, which Knežević formed in 2010, was to obtain illegal profits.
In addition to Medojević, Milošević and Đurđić, members of that group allegedly include the former mayor of Podgorica Slavoljub Stijepović, former Knežević associates Vlatko Rašović, Vuko Dragašević, Svetlana Mijatović, Tomislav Žižić, Miodrag Knežević, Andrej Kononeko, former secretary of the Supreme Prosecutor's Office Nenad Vujošević and others.
Yesterday, Medojević repeated for "Vijesti" that these are fabrications:
"This is pure persecution and preparation of my arrest for liquidation. The Đukanović brothers know that the rating of DPS is falling and that the rating of DF is rising. That's why the crazy plans to eliminate the three leaders of the DF and possibly ban the work of the DF are being approached. I expect the deputies to reject such a criminal request because Katnić did not write a single word in his explanation about how I laundered the money, through which mechanisms and to whom I returned the laundered money. He couldn't do that because there weren't any payments, so there wasn't any washing either," claims the deputy.
Referring to the evidence and testimony of the associate witness, Katnić claims in the request that in March 2014, Rašović took an envelope with 10.000 euros to Medojević.
The driver of the wanted businessman took the cash from Duško Knežević's safe in Atlas Bank, put it in an envelope on which he wrote "Oliver Espomidija", and then hid the envelope with the money in the book "Monografija Crne Gora"...
He packed the book and left it at the reception of the "Premijer" hotel.
The Prosecution alleges that the "gift" was taken by Medojević's driver Željko Šćepanović.
Medojević claims that he is "a target because of sources from the heart of the regime and the discovery of connections with the mafia."
"I am especially the target of Katnić's personal persecution because of my persistent insistence on investigating his connections with the clan from Grand, the pharmaceutical mafia and the cover-up of criminal acts related to the Đukanović family. I have already been accused of money laundering once and the proceedings are ongoing. "Almost all the witnesses were heard, and none of them gave any testimony that accuses me of anything to do with money laundering," says the deputy.
He has not yet received any document or summons from the prosecution, nor have his lawyers.
"Only a complete idiot can associate me with Migo Stijepović and Nenad Vujošević and the rest of the Depees people," says the deputy. Earlier on RTCG, Katnić showed how Knežević's associates took money out of the state, that is, they cut pages in the book and inserted euros there.
Šoć: I would not vote to revoke anyone's immunity, although I have no sympathy for Nebojša
The Special State Prosecutor's Office had to explain in the request for waiver of immunity submitted to the Parliament in which criminal activities the DF MP Nebojša Medojević was involved, lawyer and former Minister of Justice Dragan Šoć told "Vijesti", stating that behind the general wording submitted in request, "there must be facts".
"In which criminal acts, in what way is it proven. Let's say... that he is involved in criminal activities by being in such and such a place on such and such a day or being seen or caught... If there is no such thing, as far as I'm concerned, I would never vote to revoke anyone's immunity, even though I have no political sympathies for Nebojsa Medojević", Šoć said.
He reminds that immunity should provide the MP with the assurance that he can perform his function more comfortably, that he will not be exposed to harassment, whether by the government or private, in the performance of his function.
Yesterday, the SDT did not respond to "Vijesti" regarding the nature of the investigation against Medojević, for which a request to lift immunity was sent to the Parliament.
The President of the Administrative Board, Ljuiđ Škrelja, confirmed to "Vijesta" on Tuesday that he had received the SDT's request, but he could not specify when the session will be held to discuss it.
Šoć states that the question is how the Assembly will act according to the SDT's request, stating that, theoretically, the prosecutor can send a blank paper and ask to remove the immunity of the MP "because he believes that he has committed a certain criminal act", but that MPs who decide, should have more information.
"There were also such or similar (requests). When I was a deputy, I publicly said that I would never vote, and it was about a DPS deputy. I will not vote because of what the prosecutor claims. In my opinion, he has to convince me, as someone who decides on someone's immunity, that there are enough facts on the basis of which I can conclude that there is a basis for proceeding against that man...", Šoć said.
Medojević announced yesterday that GST Milivoje Katnić sent a "general blank request for lifting immunity" to the Assembly.
Katnić is counting on the statements of the former driver
Rašović, who allegedly took money to an opposition MP, was recently confirmed as an accomplice witness in the proceedings in which Knežević's organization is suspected of embezzlement of around 8.000.000 euros that the driver brought into Montenegro.
After that, he received the same status in another case. Rašović was arrested at the end of September 2017, when the SDT launched an investigation into money laundering. In the same action, 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 "Envelope" affair.
Željko Šćepanović is a PzP activist and was arrested in October 2016 on charges of money laundering.
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