One of the yachts that was damaged in yesterday's fire at the Navar marina in Bonići near Tivat is the yacht "Sara", Nova.rs learns.
It is a yacht that, according to BIRN, was bought from Svetozar Marović by the company "Inkop" owned by Zvonko Veselinović. The yacht suffered minor damage, as it was the second in the row of the yacht in which the fire broke out.
At the time "Inkop" bought the yacht, her name was "Kenco", but the new owner changed her name to "Sara".
Due to this ship, several disputes were fought at the time when Svetozar Marović was the owner.
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In 2015, the court case between the Austrian company "Heta Leasing" and Svetozar and Miloš Marović was about the collection of 9.980.076 euros, because the Marovićs guaranteed that the loan that the then "Hypo Leasing" gave to the offshore company "Galaxy" would be returned. The yacht "Kenco" was built with that money.
Payment for the war was soon suspended, and the yacht then disappeared from the Budva marina. She returned recently, under the name "Sara", now owned by controversial Kosovo businessman Zvonko Veselinovic.
The way of the famous yacht
How is it BIRN wrote in September of this year, Svetozar Marović, the former president of Serbia and Montenegro, several years ago became the owner of a luxurious yacht 30 meters long and worth 8,9 million euros, which was built in the famous Italian shipyard Ferretti.
When he escaped from Montenegro to Serbia in 2016, Svetozar Marović managed to avoid the prison sentence to which he was sentenced for corruption, but he could not get rid of the debt to an Austrian bank of almost nine million euros for the purchase of a luxury yacht.
A year later, in 2017, the Novi Sad company "Južna Bačka" enters into an agreement with the Austrian company Heta Leasing, which is the legal successor of Hipo Alpe Adria Bank, and takes over the ship for only 1,3 million euros.
A few days after they bought the yacht, "Južna Bačka" for the same price, they sold the boat to the company "Inkop", owned by Zvonko Veselinović and Milan Radoičić, two godfathers from Kosovo close to the SNS, who are linked to many criminal activities.
According to the available specifications of the yacht manufacturer Fereti, the model of the boat, which was bought by Svetozar Marović for 2008 million euros in 8.9 through Hipo Alpe Adria Bank, and which Veselinović and Radoičić drive today, has five cabins for guests, plus accommodation for the crew.
US sanctions
On December 8, the US Department of the Treasury published an updated list of persons under US sanctions ("OFAC's SDN List"). It is a list of the Office for the Control of Foreign Assets. Among the updated names are 13 well-known people from the North of Kosovo, most of whom are businessmen. The most well-known names to the public are Zvonko Veselinović and Milan Radoičić, close associates of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, repeatedly linked to serious crimes, but never convicted.
Zvonko Veselinović, the leader of the Organized Crime Group (OKG), is one of the most notorious corrupt figures in Kosovo.
OKG Veselinović is involved in a large-scale bribery scheme with Kosovo and Serbian security officials that enables the group to illegally trade goods, money, narcotics and weapons between Kosovo and Serbia.
The group also conspired with various politicians through various quid pro quo agreements, including bribing Kosovo security officials in early 2019 to facilitate smuggling operations between Serbia and Kosovo, and in late 2017 bribing Kosovo border security officials to allow smugglers safe passage.
At the end of 2017, Veselinović and his brother Žarko (Jovan) Veselinović had agreements with politicians to help their party win the elections, ensure political victories for their candidates and to contribute large sums of money to their candidates.
In return, these politicians would give the Veselinović brothers control over certain areas so that they could do business and where they could carry out their illegal business activities, without the interference of the Serbian authorities, and would also provide business information regarding assets, in order to support the business investments of these brothers.
Politicians would also reward the Veselinović brothers, working to award these brothers the best infrastructure contracts.
At the end of 2017, the Veselinovićs made donations as a method of laundering money originating from their criminal enterprise.
Žarko was a leader in OKG Veselinović, working with his brother and OKG - in their smuggling activities, violent intimidation of businesses, construction and infrastructure projects and telecommunications development projects.
In addition, Veselinović and his group were accused of alleged involvement in the murder of the leader of a political party - Oliver Ivanović, in January 2018.
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