British George Cottrell and his partner, former Miss Montenegro Anđela Vukadinović, will not be held responsible for mutual violence, the Kotor Basic State Prosecutor's Office has decided.
Only the mother of the girl will be responsible. SV who is accused of breaking the inventory in Cottrell's apartment in a Tivat hotel.
Kotor prosecutors made this decision even though Kotrel and Vukadinović were arrested on their orders on April 27th, and spent the following night in the Tivat police station.
"Regarding your questions, we inform you that persons GC and AV were deprived of their liberty by order of the prosecutor on duty at the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Kotor due to reasonable suspicion that they committed the criminal offense of domestic violence or violence in a family community. After the investigation, a decision was made dismissing the criminal charges against the suspects. At the same time, a case was opened against person SV in this prosecutor's office for the criminal offense of destruction and damage to another's property, which case is in the investigation phase," the Kotor ODT responded to Vijesti.
Vijesti announced on April 27 that Kotrel and Vukadinović were deprived of their liberty due to a physical altercation between them.
Later that same day, the Police Directorate officially confirmed this, providing details that they acted upon Vukadinović's report.
She first called the inspectors, and when they arrived at the scene, she told them that, while staying in a hotel apartment in Tivat, she had been physically attacked by her partner Kotrel.
They claim that, acting on her report, they took measures and actions within their jurisdiction and arrested Cottrell, a British citizen with temporary residence in Tivat, and Miss, while criminal charges were filed against SV (53), her mother.
"Namely, based on information collected from several individuals, including the aforementioned individuals, police officers came to suspect that today at around 3 a.m., while AV was in the aforementioned apartment, GC used physical force against her by striking her multiple times in the head and body with the same closed fist," the statement states.
The UP added that "it is also suspected that AV used physical force against her emotional partner GC by striking him in the head with a closed fist, and then several more blows to the body, after which he locked himself in one of the rooms."
"Then, as is suspected, AV called SV's mother (53) by phone, who, upon arriving at the apartment, physically attacked GC, striking him several times with an open fist in the body area, after which GC went to another room and locked the door while SV broke the apartment's inventory and then left. The state prosecutor at the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Kotor was informed of the incident, upon whose order GC and AV were deprived of their liberty on suspicion of committing the criminal offense of domestic violence or violence in a family community, while a criminal complaint was filed against SV, AV's mother, on suspicion of committing the criminal offense of destruction and damage to another person's property. GC and AV will, within the legal deadline, be brought to the prosecutor's office for further jurisdiction and action," the UP statement reads.
Kotrel and Vukadinović were released after being questioned by the prosecutor's office, and some media outlets subsequently published their statements, in which they claimed to be deeply disappointed by "inaccurate and misleading reports about the alleged incident in Tivat."
In their response, which was not provided to Vijesti, they also wrote that the case was closed for them.
Cottrell was one of the advisors. Nigel Farage, a former British and European Member of Parliament and one of the most vocal advocates of Great Britain's exit from the European Union, and was in charge of raising money for UKIP (United Kingdom Independence Party), until he was arrested in the United States of America.
He comes from an aristocratic London family and was raised and educated on a private island, and when he went to college, he was kicked out for illegal gambling.
He was a formal director of several businesses at a young age, both in the UK and in other countries, and since 2013 he has worked at banks such as Credit Suisse and JP Morgan.
In July 2016, he was arrested in Chicago and charged with money laundering, fraud, blackmail and extortion.
The indictment alleges that in 2014 he met with undercover federal agents in Las Vegas and arranged to launder millions of dollars in drug money through offshore bank accounts.
In December 2016, he reached a deal with prosecutors and 20 counts were dismissed in exchange for pleading guilty to wire fraud in which he explained various ways money could be laundered.
He spent eight months in prison.
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