Due to reasonable grounds to suspect that they committed offence in the area of corruption and money laundering, Special police department has prosecuted three criminal charges and six reports as supplement to charges against 112 physical persons and 88 legal entities on the grounds of committing criminal offences formation of criminal organization, abuse of office, forgery of identification documents, tax evasion, money laundering and abuse of authorizations in the economy.
Estimated damage inflicted to the budget of Montenegro amounts to €14.664.000.
Special State Prosecutor’s Office has prosecuted seven criminal charges and seven additional reports against 47 physical persons as it established there were reasonable grounds to suspect that they had committed criminal offences in the area of organized crime, terrorism and war crimes.
“Chief State Prosecutor, Mr Milivoje Katnić, and other special prosecutors have issued over 232 warrants in 23 criminal cases”, SSPO said.
A total of 72 persons have been arrested by order of Mr Milivoje Katnić and other special prosecutors.
During 2019, due to reasonable suspicion that they committed criminal offences in the area of high corruption and money laundering, SSPO has prosecuted 6 criminal charges and five additional reports against 81 physical persons and 26 legal entities on suspicion of committing 119 criminal offences and caused material damage in the amount of €28.654.935.
SSPO has also prosecuted 11 criminal charges and nine additional reports against 95 physical persons and five legal entities on suspicion of committing criminal offences in the area of organized crime, terrorism and war crimes.
By order of Mr Katnič and his counterparts, 109 persons have been arrested.
In accordance with the orders of the State Prosecutor’s Office, eight financial investigations on 179 physical persons and 150 legal entities were carried out in 2019.
With the aim of improving results in financial investigations, officers of the Special police department applied and conducted parallel data collection, for both criminal and financial investigation, so that implemented measures and reconnaissance procedure could lead to the initiation of financial investigations.
There are officers in the SSPO who cover positions of financial investigators and they have tokens for checking specific data in the Central Bank only.
Special prosecutor has the main role in the procedure of financial investigations.
