The Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) has not yet determined whether President Milo Djukanovic will be held accountable for creating a criminal organization, money laundering, abuse of office, bribery, public incitement to commit terrorist acts, inciting national, racial and religious hatred and inciting violence. change the constitutional order.
Đukanović was reported for these crimes in the last four years, and these are four cases that are still in the investigation phase.
Of the other 14 reports, two were forwarded to other competent prosecutors' offices, and in 12 special prosecutors did not find grounds for initiating an investigation and possibly filing an indictment.
In 2017, Branko Radulović, an official of the Movement for Change (PzP), filed a complaint for creating a criminal organization against Đukanović.
In addition to Đukanović, Radulović filed a criminal complaint against former Prime Minister Duško Marković, former ministers - Dragica Sekulić, Vladimir Kavarić and Darko Radunović, as well as officials Miomir M. Mugoša, Veselin Grbović, Darko Konjević, Ivan Bošković and businessman Veselin Pejović, because of the established suspected of having committed several criminal acts in connection with the exploitation and export of red bauxite.
He announced that in the application he provided numerous evidence of illegal and criminal activity, such as crimes against property, payment transactions, the environment, abuse of official position, money laundering, creation of a criminal organization...
After Radulović submitted the report to the Supreme State Prosecutor's Office, they forwarded it to the SDT, and the case was assigned to special prosecutor Lidija Mitrović.
That year, the SDT received and dismissed the report against Đukanović from the trade union organization AD "Port of Adria" from Bar, which accused him of abuse of official position and negligent work in the service.
Two criminal charges filed against Đukanović by Vasilije Miličković in 2018 were also dismissed - for negligent work in the service and unauthorized use of state property for election purposes.
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In the following year, eight criminal charges were filed against Đukanović, and two of the four filed against him by the NGO MANS in 2019 are under investigation.
Special prosecutors Veljko Rutović and Saša Čađenović are handling cases in which MANS accuses Đukanović of money laundering, abuse of official position and accepting bribes.
Due to money laundering, MANS then filed a criminal complaint against Đukanović, president of the Atlas Group, Duško Knežević, businessmen Dušan Ban and Željko Mihailović, as well as against the former director of the Directorate for the Prevention of Money Laundering, Predrag Mitrović, stating that they have reasonable suspicions that those reported had committed it in an organized manner. criminal offense.
A criminal complaint was also filed against the companies "Capital Invest Podgorica" and "Comsel Limited Cyprus".
"Each of the applicants had a predetermined task and role, planning actions for a long time or for an unlimited period of time, planning and implementing actions on an international scale, using economic and business structures in their actions, using money laundering and illegally obtained profits in their actions, and using influence on the political, legislative and executive authorities, through banking and financial operations, concealed the method of obtaining the amount of 1,5 million euros, which served as a guarantee in the form of cash collateral for the loan of Milo Đukanović's company, and they knew that the money was obtained through a criminal act. it says in the application.
MANS then recalled that on July 11, 2007, the President, as the owner of the company Capital Invest Podgorica, signed a loan agreement of 1,5 million euros with Piraeus Bank SA London, for which the bank requested an additional guarantee in the form of cash collateral. Đukanović provided the guarantee in agreement with Knežević and provided it on the same day through the company of the fugitive banker "Comsel Limited" from Cyprus.
"The amount of 1,5 million euros, which served as a guarantee for Đukanović, was transferred to the account of the company Comstel limited by Đukanović's 'two friends', Dušan Ban and Željko Mihailović. After receiving a loan from Piraeus Bank, on August 3, 2007, Đukanović, through his company Capital Invest, bought the shares of Prva banka, which is majority owned by his brother, Ac Đukanović. The shares were purchased under favorable conditions, for a price of 127 euros per share," the application states.
Prosecutor Rutović determines whether Đukanović with a team of friends and associates laundered money.
In the second report, MANS suspected Đukanović and his close associates of receiving bribes during the privatization of Telekom that year. The report, which is being processed by special prosecutor Čađenović, includes the sister of the president of the state, lawyer Ana Đukanović, and several persons involved in the privatization of Telekom Crne Gore in 2005.
All of them are suspected of abuse of official position and accepting bribes.
In addition to Milo and Ana Đukanović, the report covers public authorities - officials of the executive authority in 2005, during the privatization of Telekom, as well as private persons who participated in the conclusion of simulated contracts with the companies Fiesta, Aktiva, Sigma and Roli, through which bribes were allegedly paid. .
In addition, the criminal complaint includes Veselin Barović, Oleg Obradović, Damjan Hosta and the representative of Magar Telekom Tamaš Morvai.
The criminal complaint charges that through the organization of a criminal group, using the economic and business structures of Montenegro, through influence on the executive power, they ensured that the Government of Montenegro enabled Magar Telekom to buy shares of minority shareholders on more favorable terms and thus come into possession of two-thirds of Telekom Montenegro's shares. and which was the condition for the purchase of the state package of shares in the company.
"Then they drew up false - simulated contracts through which bribes in the amount of 7,4 million euros were paid to the reported Milo Đukanović and other so far unidentified persons, which they acquired, held and used with the knowledge at the time of receipt that the money originated from a criminal act, at the same time falsely presenting the facts about the nature of the money that was paid as a bribe and falsely representing that it was money paid for services rendered", it is written in the application submitted by MANS on March 1, 2019.
The SDT rejected the reports filed that year against Đukanović by Alternativa, which suspected him of creating a criminal organization and illegal influence, and by MANS, which in two reports charged him with violating freedom of choice when voting, falsifying an official document, money laundering and abuse of official authority. position.
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The criminal charges filed by Miličković - for abuse of official position, Marko Kampe and Momo Joksimović for the same criminal offense and Duško Knežević for creating a criminal organization, abuse of official position and illegal influence were also dismissed.
Last year, Đukanović was reported by Momo Joksimović, MANS, Andrija Mandić and NGO Ne damo Crna Gora.
Milivoj Katnić's prosecutors dismissed two MANS reports filed on suspicion of money laundering, as well as the one accusing him of abuse of official position.
The complaint filed by Joksimović against the President of Montenegro for inciting national, racial and religious hatred was forwarded by the SDT to colleagues in the Higher State Prosecutor's Office, while the Basic State Prosecutor's Office was handed over Mandić's report accusing Đukanović of creating a criminal organization and abuse of official position.
Special Prosecutor Živko Savović has not yet completed the investigation in the case formed based on the report of the NGO Ne damo Crna Gora, which suspects Đukanović of publicly calling for the commission of terrorist acts, inciting national, racial and religious hatred and calling for a violent change in the constitutional order.
This NGO was founded last year by a group of professors, and the current Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapić was the executive director for a short time, and then Minister Vesna Bratić.
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