The Supreme State Prosecutor's Office (VDT) did not open a case related to the illegal financial activities of four banks, and after several months of investigation, a case was opened for Atlas Bank.
This was announced by VDT Ivica Stanković to the independent MP Aleksandar Damjanović, who, based on the rules of procedure of the parliament, requested information on whether the prosecution is conducting investigations related to the verification of the allegations - that four Montenegrin commercial banks performed or are performing illegal financial activities, which, among other things, , and due to inadequate supervision by the Central Bank led to endangering the reputation of the Montenegrin financial system.
"According to the reports submitted by the Special State Prosecutor's Office, two higher state prosecutor's offices and 13 basic state prosecutor's offices, we inform you that the state prosecutor's office has not opened a case related to the illegal financial activities of four Montenegrin commercial banks. After several months of investigation, on December 10, the SDT issued an order to conduct an investigation in the case of the working name "Atlas banka" against 39 individuals and 95 legal entities", stated Stanković in his answer.
Damjanović told "Vijesta" that it is important to know that to date no case related to the mentioned topic has been formed, and that he expects that the VDT will conduct a comprehensive and non-selective action in this case in the coming period.
The SDT launched an investigation into Atlas Bank due to suspected money laundering through online trading.
SDT suspects that six current and former employees of Atlas Bank are involved in laundering more than half a billion euros through online trading.
The head of that criminal group was allegedly the deputy executive director for commercial affairs of that bank, Ljiljana Dragičević.
The SDT suspects that she and the employees of the bank's foreign exchange sector, which is controlled by businessman Duško Knežević, laundered money through the "E-commerce" service of Atlas Bank, which enables the sale of products and services and card payments.
That bank announced that they do everything according to the regulations.
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