The higher court revoked the verdict against the Tsarevićs, in five days the absolute statute of limitations for Marko Tsarević

The higher court in Podgorica overturned the verdict acquitting Marko Bato Tsarević, and his son Milan and the legal entity Carinvest were found guilty and sentenced for occupying half a million square meters of state land in Krimovica, TV Vijesti was told from that court.

With that, the Higher Court, ex officio and respecting the appeals of the Kotor Basic Prosecutor's Office and the defense attorneys of the defendants, revoked the verdict of the Basic Court in Kotor from October 21 and sent the case back to it for re-determination.

As TV Vijesti announced yesterday, the proceedings against Marko Carevic will have to be suspended on December 28, because then the absolute statute of limitations for criminal prosecution in relation to him begins.

The former mayor of Budva was acquitted by the overturned verdict, although it was found that he had usurped state land, because the Kotor ODT stated that the land was located in the zone of marine property, which was refuted by the Ministry of Spatial Planning and Maritime Property.

It is not surprising that the prosecution prosecuted Tsarević for the qualified form of occupying someone else's land, i.e. that the land is in the zone of maritime property, because if they did it for the basic form - the statute of limitations began in December 2022.

By the same verdict, his son Milan Carević, who took over the management of Carinvest in December 2018, was sentenced to half a year of house arrest, and the legal entity to a fine of one hundred thousand euros.

The defense of the Tsarevićs stated that the disputed plots are not located in the marine property zone and that they were never warned by the state that any of their actions were illegal. On the contrary, they state that the defendants always received oral guarantees from the state that they could carry out activities on those plots and that if it wanted to, the state had the option of forbidding them from the start to use the land in question.

The Krimovic case was revealed to the public by MANS in February 2020, the prosecution filed the indictment only two and a half years later, and the trial lasted two years.