A former high-ranking police official Dusko Koprivica and his wife Radosava they are accused of being the main "bankers" and keeping precise records of the flows of dirty money that members of their immediate family with their son-in-law, as it is believed, earned by selling drugs, cigarettes and money laundering.
Special prosecutor Tanja Čolan Deretic last night, she heard Koprivica and his wife on the allegations from the criminal report of the Special Police Department.
The Koprivica couple, their son Strahinja i put Dusko Roganović they are suspected of having committed the prolonged criminal offense of money laundering, in the amount of over one million euros.
Duško and Radosava Roganović were arrested yesterday in Nikšić and interrogated in the Special Police Department, Strahinj's son was previously in the remand prison in Spuž, while Duško Roganović has been on the run for a long time.
"We will win," exclaims the former Koprivica policeman, after he was taken out of the SPO building.
Handcuffed, he had a message even before he was escorted by the police to the headquarters of the Special Police Department...
"Hard to Montenegro with the new one Sava Joksimović. But I will defeat these set-ups. Long live Montenegro and we will win...", said Koprivica.
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During the reconnaissance phase of the procedure, the SDT and the SPO came to the basis of suspicion that the suspects Koprivice and their son-in-law Duško Roganović in Montenegro "laundered" over one million euros acquired through criminal activities in the period from 2019 to today.
Before submitting the criminal complaint to the SPO, police officers spent hours searching the house and property of Koprivica in the Duklo settlement near Nikšić, as well as other apartments and premises used by the suspects.
"Vijesti" data show that SDT and SPO believe that the family's criminal scheme has been functioning for years in such a way that the Koprivica women arrested yesterday took care of financial income and were tasked with putting money earned from smuggling into legal channels, most often through the construction of buildings in Nikšić. drugs, cigarettes and greening.
Construction, surety...
During 2023, Koprivice offered the High Court in Podgorica a guarantee for the freedom of their second son, and the list included real estate, which they offered for the release of police officers from custody. Nemanja Koprivica.
However, the court decision was annulled at the time because the family guaranteed him a building that did not have a license to use it.
He is suspected of attempted murder Željko Radulović On July 13, at Šak Petrović Square in Nikšić. After the shooting, he ran away, and surrendered to his colleagues eight days later.
The properties that were then given as a guarantee that the defendant would be available to the competent authorities were worth around 380.000 euros.
Through a search, "Vijesti" found information that the suspect Radoslava Koprivica, as an investor, requested from the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism in 2020 the application for the construction of an object on two cadastral plots in Nikšić.
Princip, Zigi 29...
Numerous correspondences from the once protected SKY application reveal that a group led by Strahinja Koprivica was transporting cigarette trucks across the border every week, and that the smuggled cigarettes ended up in Trebinje, Sarajevo and Banja Luka. In those correspondences, Koprivica used the nickname "Princip".
"Vijesti" announced back in May that Koprivice from Nikšić was in charge of smuggling cigarettes from Montenegro to Bosnia and Herzegovina, based on the communication that the European Union Law Enforcement Agency (Europol) submitted even earlier.
From those transcripts, it appears that Koprivice takes nine euros per pack of cigarettes for the safe passage of vans from Podgorica to Nikšić, and another six euros for securing illegal cargo from the town of Trebjes to the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the same messages, it was also stated that the recently arrested Trebinjac was taking over the cigarettes from Koprivica Radomir Ninković, called Letva writes.
"Vijesti" then announced that members of the so-called police drug cartel negotiated with a certain Strahinja to ensure safe passage of vans loaded with cigarettes to the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, which, as they write, would be picked up by Rašo Letva in Trebinje.
In that context, they mention that it is the work of certain Koprivica, and then they explain how much the team from Nikšić charges for providing passage per pack of cigarettes.
At the end of June 2020, the former policeman discussed this Vladimir Bajčeta and an as yet unidentified member of that team, whose nickname was Ziggy 29.
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Ziggy then asks him if they told him that he can take 100 (packages) a week, and then he complains that someone has already built into the price.
"Brother, I was with Strahinja before. I am in contact with the buyer, the buyer is my brother's friend, someone has already set the prices. Transportation to the customer is 9 e PG-NK, and 6 e to the customer. This is done by Koprivice personally and they do it with their goods, they take 400 a week and do the transport to Raš Letva from TRB, which buys it all... well, nothing is better than nothing, so later I will try to get at least another 100 a week. , that would be quite correct. There, that's all 1/1, there's no brainstorming, it's all been going on steadily for 15 years and there are no deviations", he sends to Bajčeta and asks him if he should confirm everything.
After Bajčeti explains who their cigarette buyer is, Zigi 29 also writes that those in that business "put everyone on hiatus for seven days".
"Brother, they work hard both green and white and plant grass and interest and buildings, whatever, but they love money, they look at everything for 10 cents".
Strahinja Koprivica, the son of the retired police official Duško Koprivica, has been speculated for a long time that he is allegedly related to the Kavak clan. Mlađe Koprivica was also mentioned by a protected witness in a case that was formed against members of three criminal groups that, according to the SDT, were formed Igor Vukotić, one of the leaders of the Škaljar clan, from Nikšić Ranko Radulović i Erogen Brajović from Albania. Protected witness Jadranko Jonski claimed that among the targets that were then "aimed at" by members of these criminal groups were several police officials, including Duško Koprivica, as well as his son Strahinja.
The Roganovics are frequent targets in the clan war
The fugitive member of the Kavac clan, Duško Roganović, has not been available to judicial authorities for a long time, although the SDT filed several indictments against him for criminal association.
At the end of April 2017, he was seriously injured in a devastating explosion that was detonated under his car in Herceg Novi.
His father, Niko Roganović, was killed on the night of July 26, 2017, in the Dubrava settlement in Novi.
The police did not discover the two attackers who waited for him a hundred meters from the house where he lived and fired several shots at him.
In the war of the clans, his brother Šćepan Roganović was also killed, on February 13, 2020, on the stairs near the Kanli tower.
Life on the exam
After retirement, Duško Koprivica, an official of the Police Administration, published the book "Life on an Exam" in September 2022.
"I had an exciting life, sometimes thorny, and often at the crossroads of very important decisions and paths... One dimension was always a priority for me - to remain human, in the basic sense of the word, even in difficult trials, of which there were many. Whether I succeeded is up to others to judge," said Koprivica.
For the reviewer of the book, journalist Bud Simonović, the most interesting parts of the book were the chapters dedicated to certain events from the 1979s - the XNUMX earthquake, major social upheavals, traffic and other accidents, crimes and criminal confrontations, family dramas and murders...
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