After the arrest of the head of the Podgorica Tax Administration, the inspector of that institution and two officials of the Ministry of Finance, the key question is whether the investigation of the Special Prosecutor's Office in the "Klap" case will be extended to the bankruptcy trustees and bankruptcy judges of the Commercial Court, who conducted proceedings in companies from criminal charges for millions of frauds in which the state was damaged.
A review of the Central Registry of the Privy Court shows that some companies, whose owners are under investigation by the SDT, are in bankruptcy or proceedings for the liquidation of the company have been initiated.
SDT has been investigating for months - how the method of fictitious opening of companies worked, and then the process of fake bankruptcies in the sister company - in order to avoid paying taxes to the state, that is, the collection of output VAT.
"Vijesti" recently announced that the SDT is conducting an investigation in connection with fraud related to fake bankruptcies, as well as methods of collecting VAT, which are suspected to be the responsibility of the Ministry of Finance, as well as the Tax Administration.
Officers of the Police Sector for the Fight against Organized Crime and Corruption yesterday detained the head of the Tax Administration of the Podgorica Regional Unit, Stanislava Beba Martinović, as well as Marina Perović, the advisor to the Governor of the Central Bank, Radoje Žugić, and the former State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance...
In the action of the Special State Prosecutor's Office, tax inspector Nevenka Đurović and head of the Department for Inspectional Supervision of the Tax Administration PJ Podgorica Rajka Simonović were also handcuffed. Arrested civil servants and those responsible in six private companies founded a criminal organization with the task of damaging the state through illegal refunds of value added tax (VAT), according to the Police Administration.
From that institution, they stated that the defendants, in the period from November 2011 to the end of 2019, damaged the budget of Montenegro by more than 3,5 million euros.
"In such a way that in the process of inspection by the Tax Administration, they will be recognized as valid invoices for goods and services that were not actually delivered, provided, paid, or performed, which will be issued by legal entities founded by other members of this criminal organizations. On the basis of these fictitious invoices, tax officials made illegal decisions on VAT refunds".
The announcement states that Perović and Dragan Vujošević, an independent adviser in the Ministry of Finance, illegally suspended the administrative procedure of tax collection to a private company, as members of the second-level commission of that government department: "And prevented the state of Montenegro from collecting taxes in the amount of more than 400.000 euros, by which they benefited that legal entity in the same amount".
The criminal complaint includes five employees of the Podgorica Tax Administration and six responsible persons in legal entities: the supervisor of that regional unit Persa Novaković, independent advisor Aleksandar Radulović and tax inspectors Brano Magdelinić, Milijana Radonjić and Slavojka Savić.
In the operation the day before yesterday, the director of the Bijelo Polje company "Braća Kolić" Refad Kolić, the authorized representative of the company "Migi" from Bijelo Polje Tamara Kovačević and the responsible person of the company "Okov" from Podgorica Bojan Rašović were arrested.
The criminal complaint also includes Saša Jokić, founder of the company "Viner" from Danilovgrad, Bojan Petričević - representative of the companies "A kop" and "PS gradnja" and "A kop mne", KD representative of the company "Trend trade" from Podgorica, Špiro Nilević, founder and representative of the company "Dea", as well as Dejan Lakić and Ivan Vuković, as well as three legal entities in accordance with the Law on Criminal Liability of Legal Entities: "Braća Kolić", "Migi", "Trend trade"... SDT is the share "Klap" and "Vardar" started last year, when several company owners were arrested for tax evasion and collection of fictitious VAT.
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