The Speaker of the Parliament, Ivan Brajovic, was heard in the Special State Prosecutor's Office due to the claims of SDP MP Raško Konjević regarding the sale of land in Danilovgrad and the disputed write-off of a debt from a revolving card in Atlas Bank, Televizija Vijesti has learned.
After leaving the prosecutor's office, Brajović told TV Vijesti that he was at the prosecutor's office by invitation, not wanting to comment on the case.
The special state prosecution is investigating whether the President of the Assembly earned 150.000 euros from the fake sale of land and whether the president of the Atlas Group under warrant, Duško Knežević, wrote off a debt to Brajović of at least 50.000 euros from a revolving card.
Land in Bjelopavlići, Knežević's accusations
The President of the Assembly, Ivan Brajović, said in February of last year that since 2013 he has no obligations towards Duško Knežević's Atlas bank and that he settled the debt on the card by selling part of the inherited land.
The owner of the Atlas Group, Duško Knežević, called out Brajović earlier to explain how he closed the obligations with Atlas Bank based on "several years of credit card debts that he did not pay back" and raised doubts about the sale of land in Danilovgrad. In Brajović's property records published on the website of the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (ASK), it was not recorded that he had a credit card with Atlas Bank until that year, nor any negatives on his credit card with the bank, which is now in bankruptcy. The documentation published by the MANS Research Center confirms, as they announced, that the price of the land that Ivan Brajović sold was far higher than the market price, and that Brajović faked the entire deal in order to justify the acquisition of 150 thousand euros, necessary to settle debts to banks . In Brajović's property records, debts are listed by age, but according to Atlas, they are not officially found anywhere. Nor his wife Dragana Brajović since 2005. to 2015. year, according to the data of ASK, there is no debt with Atlas banka. Brajović reported the loan debt to CKB and Hipo alpe adria banka in 2010. year in the total amount of 90.000 euros. On February 11 last year, he announced that he had settled his obligations towards Atlas Bank, without specifying how much they were, by selling part of his inheritance. "Since 2013 I have no debts towards Atlas Bank. I have been interested in journalism for 24 years. In January, I replied that I paid off the debt on the card by selling part of the inherited land. There is documentation about this with all competent authorities, to whom I reported this transaction in a timely manner. I sold the land to an interested legal entity, about which a notary deed was drawn up. And I have proper documentation about that," Brajović announced at the time. According to official data from his property records, there is a difference in the area of land that Brajović owns, so between 2012 and 2013, loses about 4.470 square meters of land in Kosić near Danilovgrad. "I gave my driver money so that the land ends up in his name," Knežević said. The owner of Atlas called on the President of the Assembly to "explain how his land in Bjelopavlići ended up in the hands of one of our arrested drivers, who was held in custody neither guilty nor liable, while they tried to falsely accuse him of participating in money laundering for DF" . "Through him and my other employees, they wanted to later falsely accuse me of participating in the coup. I gave my driver money so that the land ends up in his name," Knežević added. He claims that the Special State Prosecutor's Office has already seized as evidence Brajović's "file of cards and accounts from Atlas Bank, as well as data on the sale of land which, as he said, is his family inheritance." MANS announced that at the end of 2013, Ivan Brajović (later renamed Energo Invest Group) entered into a pre-contract for the sale of almost 4500 m2 of land in the Kosić settlement, Danilovgrad municipality. The price that was agreed on that occasion was 150.000 euros. At the time, MANS announced, the owners of Free Energy were Serbian businessmen Ratko Stanivuković and Svetomir Stefanović. In mid-2015 Stefanović left the company, and it changed its name to Energo Invest Group. Just two days after signing this contract, Atlas Bank granted Free Energy a short-term loan of 150 euros. As one of the security measures, the possibility of registering a mortgage on Brajović's property was mentioned, and the mortgage on that land was placed in June 2016. year, more than two years since the loan was taken for its purchase. An integral part of the mortgage contract was also the real estate valuation report, which states that the value of the land is 81 thousand euros, which is almost only half of the amount that the company paid to Ivan Brajović. The data obtained by the MANS Research Center show, as they announced, that Atlas Banka requested the cancellation of the mortgage already after six months, and in a letter dated 13 January 2017 informed the Danilovgrad cadastre that the company Energo Invest Group (formerly Free Energy) has fully settled its debts on a loan of 150 thousand euros. Two weeks after that, the company sells for 55 thousand euros the land it bought from Brajović for 150 thousand euros. The new owner is Dražen Vujisić, one of the drivers of the president of Atlas Group, Duško Knežević, suspected by the Special State Prosecutor's Office of money laundering.
The President of the Parliament of Montenegro, Ivan Brajović, sold a meadow in the municipality of Danilovgrad to the company "Free Energy", whose owner is the former advisor to the Federal Government, Svetomir Stefanović, at a price many times higher than the market price, the Network for Researching Organized Crime and Corruption Lupa announced earlier.
As announced, it is about the sale of the 3rd class meadow of 4.467 square meters in the Jastreb settlement, which was realized on December 26, 2013.
At that time, a preliminary contract was drawn up in which it was stated that Brajović was selling the inherited meadow to the company "Free Energy" at a price of 150.000 euros, or 33,5 euros per square meter.
According to data from real estate agencies, the price of land in that neighborhood today ranges from five to seven euros per square meter.
That it is a question of a multiply inflated price, as published by Lupa, is also evidenced by the fact that the President of the Parliament of Montenegro, just ten months later, on October 20, 2014, sold 467 square meters of 3rd class meadow, which is located right next to the first sold plot , to Slobodan Zeković, a citizen of Danilovgrad, for 1.000 euros, i.e. at a price of 2,1 euros per square meter.
The Directorate for the Prevention of Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism published the "Regulation on indicators for identifying suspicious clients and transactions" in which, among other things, it is written that one of the indicators of potential money laundering is that in the pre-contract, lawyers and notaries are required to enter a disproportionately higher price from the market.
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