Lawyer Dimitrije Dapčević, at the indictment review hearing in the High Court in Podgorica today, stated that he did not "launder" money as stated in the indictment of the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT).
He claims that SDT has no evidence that he "laundered" money for the head of the Kavač clan, Radoj Zvicer, who is accused in other cases and is on the run.
He also said that in the indictment the prosecution does not state from whom he allegedly received the money and when.
His defense attorneys Miloš Vuksanović and Draško Dapčević emphasized that in this indictment, the only evidence of the prosecution are the messages from the encrypted "SKY" application, which they pointed out is not evidence but informative material.
Special State Prosecutor Zoran Vučinić said that he stands by the allegations of the indictment and proposed to the court to confirm it.
Lawyer Miloš Vuksanović said that this is a respectable lawyer and that the court knows that.
"The SKY communication is the only evidence in this proceeding. It is absurd that Dimitrije Dapčević is charged as a member of a criminal organization. The indictment does not explain how he became a member of a criminal organization," stated Vuksanović.
Dimitrije Dapčević said that he understands the indictment lexically, but on the other hand, logically, materially and formally legally, he does not.
"She represents the fiasco of the acting prosecutor," said the accused lawyer Dapčević.
He added that for the charges brought against him, the SDT did not use the prescribed legal qualifications, but tried to cover up the true circumstances and thereby harmed him, in violation of the Criminal Procedure Law.
In his extensive presentation before the court today, he pointed to the prosecution's failings.
The bad intention of the prosecution is that the prosecution accuses him of being a member of a criminal organization, while citing only him as a member in this indictment.
"And it is known that in order for this accusation to stand, by law, three persons must be accused with clearly stated roles and the role of the organizer. In the explanation of the indictment, the SDT mentions persons whom it states were prosecuted in other cases and with which I have no connection or points of contact Those are other proceedings, which do not relate to this one," said the accused lawyer Dapčević.
He especially pointed out that there is not a single proof in the indictment that someone gave him a role, nor that he accepted it, as well as no proof that someone gave him orders to act on.
He said that there is no specific time when he allegedly became a member of a criminal organization.
He denied the indictment's allegations that he was putting money from illegal flows into legal flows. He announced that he has documentation, which he will submit to the court, which relates to his business operations, payments and disbursements and those originating from his clients from abroad, which he represents before the courts in Montenegro.
He added that in addition to the fact that the indictment did not state who gave him the money, when and where, it was not stated when the criminal activity was carried out - the sale of cocaine, from which the money allegedly originated.
At the end of September, the SDT submitted an indictment to the Special Division of the High Court in Podgorica against the defendant Dimitrije Dapčević, a lawyer from Budva, for the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization, two extended criminal offenses of money laundering and two criminal offenses of money laundering, in the total amount of 2.600,000 euros. Dapčević was arrested at the beginning of April this year by members of the Special Police Department on the order of the SDT.
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