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Marovic still in poor health

It seems that former DPS high-ranking official Svetozar Marovic will not serve his prison sentence in Montenegro any time soon. He has been treated in a hospital in Belgrade for some time.

Currently the ball was in Interpol Serbia’s court. It is supposed to arrest Marovic, but it is doing nothing related to that issue.

Minister of justice Zoran Pazin said that his ministry couldn’t send the extradition request to Serbia for Svetozar and his son Milos Marovic. He said it could only be done once Serbian authorities inform Montenegro of their arrest.

As Pazin explained, the ministry would promptly send extradition request to relevant Serbian authorities once Marovic was arrested. He added that Montenegrin public had the incorrect belief that Montenegrin authorities could send the extradition request anytime they wished but didn’t wish to.

It is not known why Serbian authorities have not arrested Marovic yet.

The former senior official of the ruling party made two plea bargains with the Special State Prosecutor’s Office (SDT). He admitted being the leader of the so-called Budva criminal group whose frauds in the projects Jaz, TQ Plaza, Copyright, Krapina, VTE, Boulevard and Prijevor cost the state budget tens of millions of euros.

Based on the Podgorica High Court’s decision on accepting the bargains, Marovic is fined to €100,000 and sentenced to three years and nine months in prison. In addition, he is supposed to return about €1m to the state budget.

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