Special State Prosecutor’s Office (SDT) intends collect from NLB Bank €4m damage caused to the state budget in the Primorka affair, Dnevne Novine newspaper unofficially learns.
In addition to the bank, which is as a legal entity charged with abuse of office in the economy by aiding the crime, the investigation order also includes a former NLB CEO, Slovenia’s national Crtomir Mesaric and other fourteen persons.
According to the SDT investigation order, Nebojsa Boskovic is charged with creating a criminal plan along with the former director of the NLB bank Crtomir Mesaric to buy the assets of the Primorka bankruptcy company at favourable terms via his companies Krisma Trade, Krisma Motors and Melgonia Primorka.
The purchase of Primorka was allegedly financed from the loan granted by NLB Bank in 2010 thanks to falsely presented financial situation in Krisma Trade and Krisma Motors and pledge that the loan would be used for the revival of production in Primorka and paying liabilities to the workers.
The loan was paid on the basis of the government’s conclusion on rescheduling the previous debt, although the previous request had not been approved and the assets for rescheduling the debt and not undergone the procedure for granting state aid.
In addition to these guarantees, the entire Primorka’s property, including buildings, equipment and 66,000 square meters of land, which was actually state-owned, were given as collateral for the loan. Since the loan was not repaid properly, the bank activated guarantees and mortgages. Thus, instead of reviving the company and production and providing severance pays for workers, the bankruptcy was introduced in the Primorka company and €4m state guarantee was activated in favour of NLB Montenegro Bank and Krisma Group.
In addition to former director of NLB Bank Crtomir Mesaric, the suspects include Nebojsa Boskovic, the owner of the Krisma Trade, Krisma Motors and Melgonia Primorka companies, Krisma Motors CEO Svetozar Markovic, Krisma Trade CEO Biljana Boskovic, counsellor at the Embassy of Montenegro in Brussels, who previously worked at the Ministry of Finance, Predrag Stamatovic, the secretary general of the Union of Municipalities of Montenegro Refik Bojadzic, former member of the Board of Directors of the Electric Power Company of Montenegro (EPCG) Boris Buskovic, director of the Melgonia company Milenko Markovic and executive director of Melgonia Primorka Vinko Marovic. Criminal charges were also pressed against employees in the Ministry of Finance Sefika Kurtagic, Mitar Bajceta, Sonja Becovic and employees in the Ministry of Agriculture Darko Konjevic, Irena Mijanovic and Vukica Perovic.
