As part of the financial investigation, the Special State Prosecutor's Office temporarily blocked the property Saša Pekić, who was arrested at the end of December with six other people on suspicion of having played an important role in international cigarette smuggling for years.
The recording of a temporary measure - the prohibition of disposal of alienation and encumbrance of immovable property was registered on the last day of 2024 according to the decision of the Special State Prosecutor's Office KTI -S 31/24.
The financial investigation against Pekić and six others arrested in that case was launched three days after they were arrested by order of the SDT, which suspects them of having been involved in the smuggling scheme of the international tobacco cartel for years.
On December 27, 2024, the officers of the Special Police Department (SPO) in that case, in addition to Pekić, also arrested the officers of the Police Administration Predrag Vučurović, Dragan Backović i Predrag Mijušković.
The owner of the company "Casa Del Mobile Montenegro", the importer of the well-known furniture brand "Dogtaš", was also arrested in the operation. Srdjan Jokic, from Podgorica Goran Janketić i Nikola Glomazic from Plužine while his fellow citizens, brothers Mirko i Petar Cicmil arrested yesterday. The two were deprived of their freedom after they came to the premises of the Special Police Department yesterday and surrendered to the inspectors.
On the website of the Real Estate Administration, "Vijesti" had access to a list of real estate properties, which are officially owned by Saša Pekić, and for which the SDT issued an order on the temporary blocking of disposal and alienation.
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A long list of properties was temporarily blocked by the SDT in the cadastral municipality of Podgorica, which in this part of the investigation was determined to be owned by Saša Pekić.
Several fields, meadows and the family house on Zabjelo were blocked from him. In addition to Pekić, as co-ownership of part of the property on the same cadastral plot in the Pod Ljubović settlement, it is also referred to the owner of "Tehnomax" Veska Petranovića.
SDT temporarily blocked Pekić a duplex of 160 square meters with an auxiliary building of 33 square meters, a residential building of 155 square meters...
On Zabjelo, Pekić was temporarily blocked from disposing of a plot of 498 square meters, as well as four other meadows of the 2nd class, which he acquired in September 2024 by purchase.
In the settlement of Pod Ljubović Pekić, three more plots of 100, 69 and 84 square meters have been blocked, and a temporary measure has also been adopted for a business space of 93 square meters in an office building in Dalmatinska Street.
In addition, the SDT also blocked 228 square meters of residential space for Sasa Pekić in an eight-story building in Kruševac, which was built by the company "Cijevna komerc", and by order of the prosecutor's office, a lien was registered on two commercial spaces of 40 and 86 square meters in Kralja Nikola Street.
In the cadastral municipality of Mahala, two plots of 1370 and 806 square meters are blocked.
The temporary measure of the SDT was registered on several cadastral plots in the Budva settlement Dubovica, which were registered as co-ownership of 1/3 to the suspect Pekić, the owner of "Tehnomax" Vesko Petranović and Dejan Jokić.
Pekić is with Jokić and Golub Vojinović co-owner of the company "D&G Group", which deals with trade and export-import of chemical, alcohol and food brands for the Montenegrin market.
In February of this year, Jokić and Vojinović were arrested with a group headed by a businessman, according to the Special State Prosecutor's Office. Aleksandar Mijajlovic because of accusations that they were part of the tobacco cartel for years.
By inspecting the Cadastre Administration, "Vijesti" obtained information that Pekić, in the Budva settlement of Dubovica, was registered with a temporary note on a plot of 200 square meters, which was registered to the suspect, Petranović and Dejan Jokić, by order of the SDT.
Injunctions were registered yesterday for several plots of 824, 148, 27, 96, 16 and 18 square meters in the Dubovica settlement, which the suspects Pekić, Petranović and Dejan Jokić allegedly acquired by purchase.
The encumbrance is registered on 1/3 of the ownership of the plots, which are held by Saša Pekić, and according to the order issued by the SDT on December 31, 2024.
Pekić, Petranović and Jokić in April 2019, according to data from the Cadastre Administration, made a notarized contract of sale in favor of the buyer of the company "Group 219" from Podgorica, whose executive director is Đorđe Mrdak.
At the end of August of that year, the owners of the land and the company "Group 219" as investors submitted to the Secretariat for Urbanism and Sustainable Development Budva to build a 4-star hotel in the scope of DUP Dubovica.
The day after the arrest of Saša Pekić, a former member of parliament Nebojsa Medojevic, among other things, he questioned where the money from years of cigarette smuggling ended up.
"It is time for the state to remove the stigma of a smuggling state, which is a paradise for smuggling and money laundering. And I would invite Predrag Šukovića i Vladimir Novović that within the framework of the investigation into the activities of Pekić's group, they should not forget the main operative for money laundering TM from Vienna and the construction mogul Mrdak from Budva", stated Medojević.
The smuggling activities of Pekić and others from the group that was arrested on December 27 were intertwined with the illegal businesses of the so-called "Grand" clan, as well as the group of Miloš Medenica, also accused of cigarette smuggling.
This is shown by some of the names of the arrested police officers, as well as phone messages from the Sky application, which were exchanged by some of the accused in the case against the former president of the Supreme Court. Vesne Medenica and her son Miloš.
That action, according to "Vijesti" sources, followed several months of work on gathering evidence against the most important pillars in the multi-year, international cigarette smuggling scheme through the Port of Bar.
The ban was also registered for property in Krnjice and Virpazar
By order of the SDT, a temporary measure was registered on part of Pekić's family house in his native Krnjice near Virpazar, but only the ground floor of 40 square meters and an auxiliary building, which the suspect inherited, and the disposal of the pasture he bought in that village was also blocked.
The same SDT measure is registered as a burden in the Cadastre Administration for the first floor of the house Saša Pekić in Virpazar of 36 square meters, which he acquired through purchase and construction.
In the summer of 2022, the suspect Pekić was honored on Ognjena Marija by Metropolitan Joanikije of Montenegro as the founder of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the restoration of the Church of the Archangel Michael in the village of Krnjice.
Pekić was awarded the golden figure of Saint Peter II - Lovcensko Tajnovic for "selfless help and active love shown in the painting of the temple..."
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