Attorney Dimitrije Dapčević, yesterday at the indictment review hearing in the High Court in Podgorica, stated that he did not "launder" money, as stated in the indictment of the Special State Prosecutor's Office.
He claims that SDT has no evidence that he did this for the defendant Radoja 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 i Drasko Dapcevic, they emphasized that in that document, as evidence of the prosecution, only the messages from the encrypted "SKY" application were cited, which they said did not represent evidence but informative material.
Special State Prosecutor Zoran Vučinić he said that he stands by the allegations in the indictment and proposed to the court to confirm it.
Attorney Vuksanović said that he is a reputable lawyer and that the court knows that.
"The SKY communication is the only evidence in this procedure. It is absurd that Dimitrije Dapčević is charged as a member of a criminal organization. The indictment did not explain how he became a member of the criminal organization," he said.
The defendant said that he understood the indictment lexically, but not logically, materially and formally-legally.
"She represents the fiasco of the acting prosecutor," said Dapčević.
He added that for the accusations against him, the SDT did not use the prescribed legal qualifications, but tried to cover up the true circumstances and thereby harm him, in violation of the Criminal Procedure Law.
In his extensive presentation, he pointed out the alleged omissions of the prosecution in front of the court, stating that their bad intention is that they accuse him of being a member of a criminal organization, while citing only him as a member of that same organization.
"And it is known that in order for this accusation to stand, by law, three persons with clearly stated roles and the role of the organizer must be accused. In the explanation of the indictment, the SDT mentions persons whom it states have been prosecuted in other cases, and with whom I have no connection, nor points of contact. Those are other procedures, which are not related to this one," said Dapčević.
He especially pointed out that there is not a single piece of evidence in the indictment that says that someone gave him a role, that he accepted it, as well as no evidence 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 allegations of the indictment that he was putting money from illegal flows into legal flows and announced that he has documentation, which he will submit to the court, which relates to his business, payments and payments and those originating from his clients from abroad, which he represents before 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 Special State Prosecutor's Office filed an indictment against Dapčević, a lawyer from Budva, for the criminal offense of creating a criminal organization and 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 Special State Prosecutor's Office.
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