Special Prosecutor’s Office (SDT) requested Parliament to lift MP Nebojsa Medojevic’s immunity yesterday. The Office suspects that the Movement for Changes’ (PzP) leader created a criminal organisation which was engaged in money laundering. Among other things, Medojevic has been charged with organising a group who delivered illegal money to individuals who “donated” it later to political parties.
This is why Katnic required Parliament to strip Medojevic of his immunity in order to initiate criminal proceedings against him and remand him in custody. According to Dnevne Novine, Parliament Speaker Ivan Brajovic has already forwarded SDT’s request to the Administrative Committee.
The document signed by Katnic, which was seen by DN, states that SDT obtained the data that indicate a reasonable suspicion that during the last year, Nebojsa Medojevic along with Momir Nikolic created a criminal organisation aimed at money laundering and committing other crimes. Dejan Vujisic, Zeljko Scepanovic, Gordan Konatar, who have already been arrested, and other unidentified persons later became the criminal group members.
SDT suspects that Medojevic and Nikolic created a criminal plan to put the money Nikolic had illegally gained into legal flows. Nikolic allegedly earned money through the construction work as an entrepreneur of the Tivat-based Graditelj company “by failing to report these funds as income to the competent authorities and thus avoiding the payment of legal obligations”.
In addition, Medojevic and Nikolic are suspected of creating a plan to put the money gained through illegal exchange of foreign currencies and money obtained for illegal financing of certain political parties into legal flows.
“Nebojsa Medojevic was in charge of recruiting members of the criminal organisation among citizens and persons close to the political entities who would perform banking activities without authorisation by exchanging US dollars for euros in order for putting the money into legal flows; arranging delivery of the money that comes from illegal activities to other members of the criminal organisation and citizens woo would pay that money as donations to political entities’ bank accounts; instructing members of criminal organisation and the accused Momir Nikolic how to testify in case of being revealed as a criminal organisation and advising them what to tell the competent state authorities, in order to avoid criminal prosecution; planning and executing new forms of illicit putting money obtained through criminal activities in the legal flows,” SDT’s document seen by DN states.
