German citizen Danijel Reichart (31) was expelled from Montenegro on Thursday evening, after earlier that day he concluded a plea agreement with state prosecutor Faruk Resulbegović in the Basic Court in Ulcinj, "Vijesti" has learned.
The plea agreement was accepted by the judge of the Basic Court, Sanja Mirović, after which the 30-day detention imposed on the German two days earlier was lifted. He was expelled through the Božaj border crossing, through which he entered with three friends, and was banned from entering Montenegro for five years.
He was arrested in Ulcinj on July 11, just a few hours after he publicly told the camera of local TV Teuta that he entered Montenegro by putting 50 euros in his passport at the border crossing.
The prosecution accused him of having committed two criminal acts - harming the reputation of Montenegro and disobeying the measures of the National Coordination Body (NCT).
He was sentenced to a single fine of 5.000 euros, which he paid to the budget of Montenegro.
Those two crimes are punishable by a fine or up to one year in prison.
The German confessed to the crimes he was accused of, expressed remorse and repeated that he was joking when he told the journalist that he entered Montenegro by bribing a border policeman.
According to "Vijesti" information, he also admitted that he and his friends knowingly lied to the police officers at the Božaj border crossing, telling them that they were in transit and that they did not plan to stay in Montenegro, even though they had reserved apartments in Ulcinj.
The four of them came from Albania and needed a PCR test to enter Montenegro, due to the coronavirus epidemic.
The police administration previously denied the German's allegations that, during border control, he put 50 euros in his passport and thus managed to enter Montenegro. On the same day, after the German and his friends AI (26) from Kosovo, residing in the Republic of Germany, Š.J. (22) from Syria, residing in Germany and FF (26) from the Republic of Germany, deprived of liberty and filed a criminal complaint against them for non-compliance with health regulations.
"During the control by the border police, these persons announced that they were only passing through Montenegro in transit, and that they were continuing their journey with their final destination in the Republic of Germany, without declaring that they were staying in our country for summer vacation and that they had reserved accommodation in Ulcinj. In this way... they misled the police officers and committed the criminal offense of failure to comply with the health regulations for the suppression of a dangerous infectious disease and by order of the competent state prosecutor, they were deprived of their liberty," the police said in a statement at the time.
After the hearing, Rajhart's friends were fined 500 euros each for disobeying the NKT measures and expelled from Montenegro.
The border police determined that the four entered Montenegro via the Božaj border crossing on July 8. Previously, at the Sukobin-Murićani border crossing, they were not allowed to enter without a PCR test.
According to "Vijesti" information, they arrived in Pristina by plane from Hamburg on June 5...
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