The Montenegrin authorities issued an Interpol notice against Milos Marovic from Budva a few days ago, who is to serve a prison sentence for his involvement in embezzlements related to the sale of municipal land in the Prijevor village near Budva in 2008, Dnevne Novine newspaper learns.
Svetozar Marovic’s son, a self-confessed leader of a criminal corruption organisation, has recently been granted citizenship of Serbia, seemingly in order to avoid serving the sentence in Spuz prison. He will soon be erased from the Montenegrin citizens register. The Interior Ministry confirmed this for DN.
However, Interpol’s red notice is binding for the Serbian police, meaning that conditions for Marovic’s arrest have been already created. Marovic has resided in Belgrade for the past few months.
Regardless of the fact that Marovic is a citizen of Serbia now, the Extradition Treaty signed between Serbia and Montenegro stipulates the possibility of his detention, starting extradition proceedings and extradition.
It is not known why this process is delayed.
Milos Marovic was sentenced to one year in prison for participation in the embezzlement related to resale of municipal land in the Prijevor village above the Jaz beach. He was sentenced in late July, after the High Court had accepted the plea bargain in this case. According to the plea agreement, which was signed on 30 December last year, the prosecutor’s office accepted Marovic’s offer to be sentenced to one year in prison and to pay €380,000 to the state.
Only a month behind bars
He was arrested in early December 2015 after returning from medical treatment in Belgrade. Upon arrival in Montenegro, he was accommodated in the private Codra hospital, where he gave a statement to the prosecutor. The warrant for his arrest was issued several months earlier, but he apparently was not able to attend the hearing due to poor health conditions. After returning to the country, Marovic required spending time in the Codra hospital, but it was found that there were appropriate conditions for his treatment in the Spuz prison as well and he was transported to remand prison. However, he spent only a month behind bars. He was released after confessing that he committed abuse of office by helping.
So far, he has required postponing of serving the sentence twice allegedly because of medical treatment in Belgrade. The last such request has been finally rejected.
