The defence attorneys of Belgrade resident Milos Cujovic proposed to the court to release their clients on €200,000 bail, Pobjeda learns. There are two cases launched against him in which he has been suspected of committing computer fraud.
The decision will be made by the investigative judge of the High Court in Podgorica. Cujovic has been charged with hacking bank accounts and illegally obtained money. In both cases, Cujovic pleaded guilty and explained how he had taken money from those accounts and which software he had used in frauds. In one case, he said that he had taken away more millions than was charged by the indictment.
According to one indictment, Nebojsa Boskovic organized a criminal association with Milos Cujovic. From 1 January to September 2013, while he was remanded in custody, Cujovic used programming skills and introduced himself to foreign bank officers as owner of bank accounts. He instructed bank officers to transfer money from foreign currency accounts opened with foreign banks to foreign currency accounts belonging to several persons. In this way, Boskovic and Cujovic gained €1,446,171.80. Of this sum, €249,425 has been blocked.
Defendant Natasa S. Golovic helped Boskovic and Cujovic in the fraud.
Before judge Vesna Mostrokol, Cujovic said that using a mobile phone while he was in the prison cell and falsely introducing himself, he had taken more than €1m from bank accounts of individuals and companies that were mostly clients of Swiss banks.
He said that he went so far as to arrange lunches with bank officials to advise him on the investment of several million euros that he had allegedly earned from the sale of real estate in Spain. It was one of the ways to achieve close relationship and gain the trust of bank managers. Due to the possible inflow of money, the managers often violated procedures and paid tens of thousands of euros, with the promise to subsequently obtain the necessary documentation.
As Cujovic said, banks with stronger security measures represented a particular challenge to him.
In the second case, Cujovic has been charged with a fraud committed in 2006. According to the indictment, he took over large sums of money from foreign accounts on several occasions, thus costing the banks several million euros. Cujovic pleaded guilty in this case as well. However, he said that co-defendants Zeljko Cizmic and Gagarin and Jovica Jelic were not involved in computer frauds and that they were only “collateral damage” of his actions.
