The Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) has filed an indictment for laundering almost a million euros against a former police official. Duška Koprivica, his wife Radosav Koprivica, son Strahinje Koprivica and zeta Duško Roganovića.
"The Special State Prosecutor's Office, after completing the investigation, submitted an indictment to the Special Department of the High Court in Podgorica against the defendants: DR, DK, RK and SK, for the continued criminal offense of money laundering in the amount of at least 964.850 euros, committed in Montenegro, in the period from October 2019 onwards," it was announced with the SDT.
Roganović, who is considered a high-ranking member of the Kavača criminal clan, is on the run, while Duško and Strahinja Koprivica are in custody.
The elder Koprivica was arrested in late 2024, and his son in October of that year.
Former senior police official Duško Koprivica and his wife Radosava are accused of being the main "bankers" and keeping precise records of the flows of dirty money that members of their immediate family and their son-in-law are believed to have earned by selling drugs, cigarettes and loan sharking.
The Podgorica Higher Court previously stated that Strahinja Koprivica was unemployed at the time he founded the private company, but that despite this, he repeatedly "lent" enormous sums of money to that company, once around 100.000 euros.
They wrote this while deciding on the proposal of the Special State Prosecutor's Office to temporarily block the property of that Nikšić resident...
The court explained that, among other things, they were checking the lifestyle - the relationship between the income and assets of the family members.
"On October 24, 2024, the Special State Prosecutor's Office issued an order against the defendants Koprivica Strahinja et al., to initiate a financial investigation with the aim of collecting data and evidence on the property, legal income and living expenses of the owners, which are necessary for the permanent seizure of property gains, namely data and evidence on the property or legal income of the owners after deducting taxes and other duties that have been paid, as well as the relationship between the income and property of the owners, data and evidence on property that has been transferred to third parties or has passed to a legal successor, as well as the method of acquiring and transferring property, and other data and evidence that are important for the seizure of property gains acquired through criminal activity," explained High Court Judge Suzana Mugoša.
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.
The same messages also stated that the cigarettes from Koprivica were also being taken over by the previously arrested Trebinje resident Radomir Ninković, known as Rašo Letva.
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