The aim of this document is to give a clearer picture of the results on judiciary in the fight against money laundering in Montenegro.
This document contains an analysis of the legal framework, statistics and final court verdicts for the criminal offense of money laundering, rendered in the period from 2013 to the end of 2018. It contains information on the disciplinary responsibility of judges and prosecutors, especially those who have acted in these cases, and a separate chapter is devoted to the management of assets temporarily seized in these proceedings.
Finally, it presents problems regarding deletion of data relevant for the analysis based on the final court verdicts.
Methodology
As part of a project funded by the European Commission, MANS has collected all final court verdicts for crimes of corruption, money laundering and organized crime in which the Special Prosecutor’s Office acted. The verdicts were taken from the websites of the Montenegrin courts, www.sudovi.me, and we have analyzed all the crimes classified by the judiciary and the prosecution within these categories.
Each case is entered into a specially designed database available at www.mans.co.me.
The charges against each person are ranked individually on the basis of thegravity of the crime committed and the consequences for the public interest, so cases are divided into big, medium and small ones. Thus, forexample, smuggling of larger quantities of cocaine or heroin is rankedhigher than smuggling excise goods. In the case of charges for organizedcrime, we analyzed whether the defendant was the mastermind or amember of the criminal organization, while in the case of money laundering, we analyzed the amounts, that is, the value of assets.
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