The director of the Real Estate Administration, Dragan Kovačević, has been unavailable to the police for days, which is why a search has been launched for him.
This was unofficially communicated to "Vijesta" by an interlocutor from the top of the Police Administration. "Kovačević escaped on February 24 after being released from the pre-trial detention center," said the interlocutor.
He explained that the suspect for the abuse of his official position was released that day, after the pretrial detention ordered by the investigating judge of the Podgorica High Court expired.
Following the appeal of the Special State Prosecutor's Office, on the same day the panel of judges overturned that decision, which is why the police officers tried to put Kovačević back behind bars. However, they did not find him at the address known to the competent authorities, nor have they been able to find him since that day.
The interlocutor of "Vijesti" said that a "jeep" waited for that Danilovgrad citizen in front of the prison gate, in which he changed his clothes.
"He literally put on a suit in the car and disappeared. Allegedly, he went directly to Serbia", claims the interlocutor.
It was the second time that Kovačević's detention was revoked and ordered again since December 23, 2020, when he was initially arrested.
Kovačević is suspected of having organized a criminal group that illegally registered state land in the marine property zone to individuals and legal entities.
Special prosecutor Lidija Mitrović recently announced at a press conference that Kovačević is suspected of infiltrating some of his subordinates and close relatives in the same organization.
She explained that that group includes Ana Lakićević Grdinić, Krsto Pavićević, Danko Kovačević, Goran Tufegdžić, Danilo Jovanović, Sanja Popović, Aleksandar Boljević, Veselin Tomšević and the legal entity "Geo & arch project" which is owned by Kovačević's brother Dragoslav.
Prosecutor Mitrović announced that in the "Međa" case, in December of last year, an order was issued to conduct an investigation against 10 natural persons and one legal entity due to the existence of reasonable suspicion that they committed criminal acts - abuse of official position, abuse of position in business operations, illegal seizure of land, inducement to certify untrue content, falsification of documents, evasion of taxes and contributions, and criminal acts of abuse of position in business operations.
She also stated who had what roles - Krsto Pavićević was preparing geodetic surveys with inaccurate field data, and Tomašević was certifying them without the signatures of all land owners, communicating with other members of the criminal organization in order to conceal the real data of the situation.
"The defendant ALG accepted that it registers and changes data in the cadastral operation on immovable properties without a valid legal basis, that it makes illegal decisions on the registration of an illegally built object based on false studies, that it does not accept studies that show the actual situation on the ground, that it does not act according to the second-instance decisions of the Ministry of Finance, which annulled the decisions on such registration, hides the facts and data on the procedures for registration of an illegal object that are conducted by the Real Estate Administration of PJ Tivat, does not inform the owner of the real estate about the changes made and the procedures that are conducted, and does not submit data on made changes to the public company that manages the marine resource, communicates, transmits data and instructions to the members of the criminal organization," said Mitrović.
She also pointed out that the SDT is investigating possible abuses by employees of JP Morsko dobro and the Real Estate Administration in the "Mile" case.
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