Owner of the construction company "Master inženjering" Vladan Ivanovic He was arrested on suspicion that his company had concealed for years that five apartments in the "Master Quarter" had been purchased by the fugitive head of the Kavač clan. Radoje Switzerland, and then, in order to conceal ownership, he left the real estate registered to the company that was building the complex in Podgorica.
Ivanovic was arrested yesterday morning by order of the Special State Prosecutor's Office, and is charged with suspicion of committing the criminal offense of money laundering.
He was questioned last night at the SDT, where he answered questions, and was then ordered to be held in custody for up to 72 hours.
"By order of the Special State Prosecutor's Office, the Special Police Department in Podgorica is carrying out urgent evidentiary actions against natural and legal persons and actions of detaining natural persons due to the existence of grounds for suspicion that they have committed the criminal offense of money laundering," the Special State Prosecutor's Office announced.
The SDT discovered in 2023 during an expanded financial investigation into the fugitive head of the Kavač clan that Zvicer's real estate, totaling 363 m2, was located in the "Master Kvart", which is why they asked the High Court to place a temporary ban on the disposal of that property, registered to the company "Master Inženjering".
This is duplex number 38, with an area of 85 m2, apartment number 39, a duplex with a loft and attic of 82 m2, an apartment on the 8th floor with an area of 52 m2, a property of 72 m2, but also another one of the same size and on the same floor of the complex.
"Vijesti" has determined, by reviewing the real estate register of the Real Estate Administration, that in the "Master Kvart", a 45.000 square meter complex, a large number of apartments are still registered to the company "Master Inženjering".
During the reconnaissance procedure, at the end of May last year, a famous Belgrade architect was "taken off" a flight to Belgrade. Aleksandar Petrovic, and then during an informative interview, information was collected from him about the interior design of numerous apartments, as well as clients who hired him for numerous jobs in Montenegro.
After that, at the beginning of June last year, several days of searching of apartments in "Master Inženjering" followed.
SPO officers then searched "no one's house" on the Gorica hill in Podgorica, which suspect Vladan Ivanović has claimed to own for years.
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Five apartments, for which the SDT collected evidence that Zvicer had purchased them from "Master Inžinjering", were part of a legal battle between the Prosecutor's Office and the High Court in Podgorica, after a temporary measure prohibiting the use and disposal of the real estate was requested.
The investigating judge of the High Court, at the request of the SDT, first issued a decision ordering a temporary measure to prohibit the use and disposal of the property, due to the existence of a reasonable suspicion that the property was acquired through criminal activity.
The company "Master Inženjering" appealed against this decision, and the criminal panel of the Higher Court, chaired by judge Zoran Radovic, in the appeal proceedings, lifted the interim measure, which was ordered by the investigating judge.
The final decision of the panel of the Higher Court in Podgorica was issued on October 10, 2023.
Supreme State Prosecutor Milorad Marković filed a request with the Supreme Court for protection of legality, and its panel adopted it, stating that the decision of the "criminal panel of the Higher Court in Podgorica is unlawful, unclear and illogical"...
On July 24 last year, the Supreme State Prosecutor's Office announced that "by adopting the request for protection of legality of the Supreme State Prosecutor's Office, it was determined that the High Court panel in favor of the defendant Zvicer violated the law by deciding in the appeal proceedings to lift the temporary measure of securing and prohibiting the use and disposal of real estate that is reasonably suspected of being acquired through criminal activity."
The Supreme Court, upon the request of the State Prosecutor's Office, determined that the panel of the Higher Court in Podgorica, in deciding to revoke the decision of the investigating judge on the imposition of a temporary measure of security prohibiting the use and disposal of real estate, presented completely unclear and largely contradictory reasons.
"It has been confirmed that the decision of the High Court in Podgorica committed significant violations of the provisions of criminal procedure, the Criminal Procedure Code and the Law on the Confiscation of Property Gains Acquired through Criminal Activity," the Supreme State Prosecutor's Office said in a statement at the time.
The Special State Prosecutor's Office has filed several indictments and opened several criminal and financial investigations against fugitive Radoje Zvicer on charges that he was involved in the overseas smuggling of cocaine from Latin America to Europe and Australia, that he ordered and organized several murders, attempted assassinations...
An inspection of the Real Estate Administration shows that only about 3.000 square meters of 3rd class forest in the Kavač settlement of Kotor are officially registered in the name of Radoj Zvicer.
Encumbrances/notations were registered on that property by the decision of the High Court in Podgorica, which, at the request of the SDT, determined a temporary measure to ensure the prohibition of use and disposal.
The first note, i.e. the temporary measure of the court, during the financial investigation procedure, was registered on January 25, 2023, on the plot for which the prosecution sought a ban on its use as early as August 23, 2022.
A temporary measure was registered on another plot of land covered with forest of approximately 1.000 m2 on April 6, 2023, while another burden, a temporary measure, was registered for a plot of land of 1.092 square meters on September 18, 2023.
They are still scouting "no man's house"
The Special State Prosecutor's Office is still investigating the case, which was formed around a luxury house next to the "Gorica" villa, colloquially called "no one's house".
The villa is located on a plot of land, which, according to cadastral data, is owned by the Capital City, while the right of use is held by the owner of the company "Master Inženjering" Vladan Ivanović.
"Nobody's House", which has been under construction in Gorica for more than a decade, came into the public spotlight after the accused owner of the Atlas Group, Duško Knežević, stated in 2019 that it was being built for the then President of Montenegro, Milo Đukanović, but that it was only formally named after his friend Vladan Ivanović.
During last year's search of the villa, Ivanovic stated that it was "nobody's house but his own," and that he had purchased the plot of land in 2009, built the property, and intended to sell it on the market.
Djukanovic denied that the house was his, saying that Ivanovic had offered to sell it to him, but that the price offered was too high. However, he did not rule out the possibility of buying it "someday".
In 1999, Ivanovic founded a construction company.
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