The Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) has, after completing the investigation, submitted an indictment against the defendant TM, an Albanian citizen, to the Special Department of the High Court in Podgorica, due to reasonable suspicion that he committed the criminal offense of money laundering in the amount of 940.000 euros.
This was announced by the SDT, stating that the subject of the indictment is that in November last year, in agreement with a currently unidentified person, the defendant held and transferred money acquired from the sale of narcotics, in the amount of 940.000 euros.
"By hiding it in the cargo vehicle he was driving and the cargo he was transporting, he transported it from Austria to Slovenia, from Slovenia to Croatia and from Croatia to Montenegro, with the intention of handing it over to an unknown person in Albania, but the money was found, through control and search, at the Božaj Border Crossing, between Montenegro and Albania, and temporarily seized by officers of the Customs Administration and the Special Police Department of the Police Administration, who took certain actions in cooperation and on the order of the Special State Prosecutor's Office," the statement reads.
In the same text, they add that the indictment proposes that the defendant's detention be extended and that, in addition to the sentence, he be given a security measure of confiscating the items - the found money and the vehicle he used to commit the crime.
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