Author: Tina Popović (ID Vijesti)/MANS Investigative Centre
At the end of last year, Luka Golubović, son of a retired employee of the National Security Agency and the Police Directorate, Duško Golubović, sold an apartment and two garage spaces in the City kvart settlement to a Turkish citizen Erkan Ozmen for 375,000 Euros, according to data obtained by the Investigative Centre of the Network for Affirmation of the NGO Sector (MANS).
The entire amount was paid to him in cash on November 9, 2023, when the purchase agreement was concluded.
According to the data from that document, the price of the apartment and garage spaces was 325,000, while the Turkish citizen paid 50,000 euros to the Golubović Jr. for the furnishing of the apartment and the equipment installed in the parking spaces.
Excerpt from the purchase agreement
Special State Prosecutor’s Office (SSPO) is investigating in what way the former secret agent and his family acquired valuable assets, which they cannot justify with official income, after MANS published data at the beginning of the year according to which the Golubović family purchased real estate and luxury vehicles worth more than one million euros.
“At the end of January this year, the Network for Affirmation of the NGO Sector submitted a report to the Special State Prosecutor’s Office due to the suspicion that the assets of the National Security Agency’s employee, D. G., was acquired through criminal activity, upon which a criminal case was formed and in which the preliminary proceedings is ongoing”, special prosecutor and SSPO’s spokesperson Vukas Radonjić told “Vijesti” yesterday.
At the end of last year, Golubović Jr. sold a 98-m2 real estate to Ozmen, which he bought in 2013 as a 20-year-old student from the “Čelebić” company for 115,000 euros.
Duško Golubović previously told TV Vijesti that part of the family’s income was also explained by the fact that his wife had a private company. At that time, he stated as one of the sources of financing that during the time he was not in the civil service, he “mined” bitcoins.
Furniture, work and savings
“The seller undertakes to transfer the right of ownership in the amount of 1/1 to the buyer… while the buyer undertakes to pay the seller the full purchase price. The contracting parties specify that the purchase price of the subject real estate is 375,000 euros, of which 325,000 refers to the purchase of the apartment and parking space, while the amount of 50,000 refers to the furniture in the apartment and the equipment installed in the parking spaces, which the buyer paid on the day of concluding this contract, in the office of the acting notary, which the contracting parties confirm with their signatures”, the purchase agreement from November 9, 2023, reads.
According to the document, when asked by the notary about the origin of the money used to pay the purchase price, thirty-two-year-old Ozmen replied that he had “acquired it through many years’ work and savings, as well as by selling real estate that was in his possession, and that it was legally brought into Montenegro”.
According to MANS’ data, Luka Golubović was accepted into the Armed Forces of Montenegro in April 2020 to the position of staff officer in the Support Battalion.
A one-year contract was signed with him by the then Minister of Defence, Predrag Bošković. After the contract expired, a new one was signed for three years, and it was concluded by the then Minister of Defence, Olivera Injac.
Golubović’s monthly salary in that position was between 600 and 700 euros, ending in August 2022, by which time MANS has data obtained under the Law on Free Access to Information.
According to the data from the sales contract, a mortgage was registered on Luka Bulatović’s apartment in City kvart settlement in 2022 due to a loan of 250,000 euros, with a repayment period of four years – until October 2026.
What did the Golubović family trade over the years?
At the time, Golubović claimed that he had acquired all the property legally and with the help of his family, and that he had never engaged in criminal activities.
In addition to the 98-m2 apartment, in 2013, then twenty-year-old Luka drew off from the showroom of the “Rokšped” company in Podgorica in the new Audi S3 Sportback car, which cost 42,000 euros. The same year, he spent additional 42,000 euros to become a co-owner of two business premises of 52 and 74 m2, as well as three garage spaces in the “Razvršje” building in the centre of Žabljak.
In 2014, Golubović family became the owners of another property in City Kvart, after the wife of Duško Golubović, Danijela, bought business premises of 33 m2 for 45,000 euros. She and Duško later gave away this property to their youngest child, daughter Sara.
A new contract with the “Čelebić” company was concluded in 2015, when Luka Golubović bought two garage spaces in the garage of the building where he already owned an apartment for 13,000 euros.
The car collection of the Golubović family was enriched already in mid-2016, when Danijela imported a luxury G-Class Mercedes SUV from Germany. According to data provided to MANS by the Ministry of the Interior (MoI) based on the Law on Free Access to Information, that vehicle was paid 105,000 euros.
Mid-2018, Duško Golubović bought a 69 m2 apartment in the “Normal Company” building, near the temple in Podgorica, at a price of 93,000 euros, according to MANS’ data, Luka Golubović sold the property in Žabljak for the same price.
The same year, the former secret agent also acquired business premises in the building next to “Capital Plaza” in Podgorica, with an area of 127 m2, as well as two garage spaces, at a total price of nearly 180,000 euros.
In the purchase agreement obtained by the MANS Investigative Centre, Golubović undertook to pay a part of nearly 80,000 euros on the day of signing, and the rest of 100,000 euros within a year.
After returning to the security sector in 2019, when the then director of the Police Administration, Veselin Veljović, appointed him as the deputy head of the Department for Suppression of Serious Crimes within the Sector for Fight against Organized Crime and Corruption, Golubović continued to acquire valuable property. Thus, in the space of less than three months in 2019, he bought two vehicles, one of which was armoured and with specific characteristics, for a total of 56,000 euros.
Data from the first report on income and assets which he submitted to the Agency for Prevention of Corruption upon his arrival at the Police Directorate, show that Golubović’s monthly salary in the police that year was 840 euros, and that he reported a salary of around 450 euros for his wife.
In 2019, Golubović’s wife bought a 46 m2 apartment for cash, at a price of 50,000 euros, in the same building of the “Normal” company.
Although she had no officially declared income, judging by her father’s property record, Golubović’s daughter bought a new BMW X4 in 2019. The invoice, which was issued by the company “Voli Motors” for this high-end German-made car, amounted to 57,000 euros.
In addition to all the mentioned investments in real estate and vehicles during 2019, Golubović reported savings of 20,000 euros in the property register for that year…
At the beginning of 2021, Golubović family bought two garage spaces in the “Normal company” building, as well as business premises of 62 m2 in “Capital Plaza” paid 65,000 euros…
Although Duško Golubović, in a conversation with a journalist from TV Vijesti, explained part of the family’s income by the fact that his wife had a private company, the analysis of financial statements of this company showed that described transactions, i.e. the purchase of real estate and luxury vehicles by the family, could not have been financed from the income from that company, because it mostly operated at a loss.
