The lawyer was accused of laundering money for the clan

Dapčević is charged with creating a criminal organization and money laundering in the total amount of 2.600.000 euros.

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Dapčević is brought to the prosecutor's hearing, Photo: Luka Zekovic
Dapčević is brought to the prosecutor's hearing, Photo: Luka Zekovic
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The Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) submitted to the court an indictment against Budva lawyer Dimitrije Dapčević, who is accused of creating a criminal organization and money laundering in the total amount of 2.600.000 euros.

This was announced yesterday by the special prosecutor and spokesperson of the SDT, Vukas Radonjić, stressing that with the document submitted to the Special Department of the High Court in Podgorica, they requested that the defendant's detention be extended.

The SDT believes that this legal representative laundered money for the fugitive head of the Kavac clan, Radoj Zvicer.

"Vijesti" sources claim that Dapčević is related to that family, and the lawyer and leader of the Kavački clan is connected by the close friendship of his wife - Danijela Dapčević and Tamara Zvicer.

According to insiders, the fact that for years he represented almost all the "high-profile" members of the clan from Kotor spoke of their closeness...

On April 3, 2024, the lawyer Dapčević was arrested, after, as was reported, several months of cooperation with the criminal intelligence agency of the European Union. Sources of the newspaper claim that the investigators received data from Europol about the business scheme between the fugitive Zvicer and the lawyer Dapčević, which were downloaded from the encrypted phone application Sky.

After the arrest of Dapčević at the beginning of April, the institution managed by Vladimir Novović announced that the action was carried out after several months of cooperation with the criminal intelligence agency of the European Union - Europol.

The sources of "Vijesti" claim that the investigators received data from Europol about the business scheme between the fugitive Zvicer and the lawyer Dapčević, which were downloaded from the encrypted phone application Sky.

The papers from that communication, the "Vijesti" interlocutor said, were used for further criminal processing of the data, and during the work on the case, the police and the prosecutor's office found precise information and a scheme that the leader of the kavak clan, through the suspected lawyer, earned money from drug trafficking. inserted into legal streams.

"Based on several months of coordinated action by the Special State Prosecutor's Office, the Special Police Department and the European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Law Enforcement Authorities - Europol, by order of the Special State Prosecutor's Office, the officers of the Special Police Department deprived DD, a lawyer from Budva, of his freedom due to suspicion that he the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization and several criminal offenses of money laundering in the total amount of 2.600.000 euros", announced the prosecutor and SDT spokesman Vukas Radonjić at the time.

After the deprivation of liberty, SPO officers searched his law office and family home for hours.

For years, the lawyer had a friendly and business relationship with former Budva officials and businessmen, and according to "Vijesti" data, it is not excluded that during the further investigation of the SDT, some other possible participants in illegal business will be prosecuted.

Lawyer Dapčević became known to the general public in 2016 when he represented former DPS official Svetozar Marović and his son Miloš in numerous cases.

Dapčević represented them in the procedures of financial investigations and blocking of assets.

At the end of 2015, father and son Marović were arrested for numerous corruption cases in Budva. After a few months, Svetozar admitted that he was the head of an organized group, but he used his release from custody to go to Belgrade, so he never served his four-year prison sentence. Robija was also avoided by his son, who admitted that he had damaged the municipality for 1,4 million euros.

In the last few years, Dapčević also represented numerous members of the Kavačka clan, and among the more famous names were Dragan Knežević and Srđan Jurišević, who were accused of being hired by Radoje Zvicer and Milan Vujotić for the assassination attempts of the opposing leaders of the Škaljar clan Jovan Jovanović and Jovan Vukotić during in 2020.

All traces of Jovanović were lost in 2020, and Vukotić was killed on September 8, 2022 in Istanbul.

The suspected lawyer opened an office at the end of 2011, and then in a very short time he got a large number of clients on the coast.

In the Central Registry of the Commercial Court, it can also be seen that the account of his law office was blocked in 2021 due to a debt of almost 25.000 euros.

Dapčević represented numerous Budva families in Rafailovići, on Jaz, but he also had a well-developed network of clients for whom he obtained permits for the legalization of buildings on the coast...

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