Today, the Network for Affirmation of NGO Sector (MANS) filed a criminal complaint against the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), its President Milo \u0110ukanovi\u0107, responsible persons in that party, as well as against several NN persons – DPS activists on suspicion of money laundering, forgery of official document\u0441 and violations of the freedom of choice in voting.<\/p>\n
In a criminal complaint filed with the Special Prosecutor for Suppressing of Organized Crime, Corruption, Terrorism and War Crimes, it is stated that the reported persons made a conversion of 100 thousand Dollars into Euros, whose origin they concealed, knowing that it was money obtained by a criminal offense; made official documents – financial reports and reports on the financing of election campaigns with false data in which donations received by DPS were not mentioned. In addition, they used the money through the activists to influence the freedom of voting i.e. to buy votes in elections in Zeta.<\/p>\n
It is reminded that on January 12 this year, a video was published in the media that shows that in his house in Zeta the president of the Atlas Group, Du\u0161ko Kne\u017eevi\u0107, handed over an envelope to DPS official Slavoljub Stijepovi\u0107, stating that there was \u20ac97.5 thousand in it, and that he had previously converted $100,000, after which Stijepovi\u0107 went to the pre-election rally of DPS in Zeta.<\/p>\n
“Du\u0161ko Kne\u017eevi\u0107 has repeatedly publicly announced that the handing over of this money in the amount of \u20ac97.5 thousand to Slavoljub Stijepovi\u0107 was previously arranged with DPS President Milo \u0110ukanovi\u0107. \u0110ukanovi\u0107 denied this publicly, but confirmed that Kne\u017eevi\u0107 was a donor of DPS and that all donations were carefully recorded in the DPS’s bookkeeping, pointing out that the party would be held liable if it is proved that it had violated the law,” the statement said.<\/p>\n
In the reports on the financing of election campaigns published on the website of the Agency for Prevention of Corruption, there is no Du\u0161ko Kne\u017eevi\u0107 or his companies on the list of donors. Also, from the audit of the financial statements of the DPS, conducted by the State Audit Institution (SAI), it is found that DPS did not register donations from Kne\u017eevi\u0107 and his companies.<\/p>\n
“It appears that the responsible persons of DPS, by order of \u0110ukanovi\u0107 and with his knowledge, have a double bookkeeping, one for the party’s needs in which they state accurate data on donations and the other, which they submit to the competent authorities in which the false information is provided and in which donations are hidden.<\/p>\n
Thus, the reported persons forged the documents – financial reports and reports on the financing of election campaigns, which must be conducted in accordance with the law, because they have entered inaccurate data that have been verified by the signatures and seal of DPS,” it is stated in the criminal report.<\/p>\n
We remind that the State Prosecutor\u2019s Office announced that it had initiated proceedings against Stijepovi\u0107 and Kne\u017eevi\u0107 for money laundering. “However, the abovementioned facts and evidence point to the reasonable suspicion that Milo \u0110ukanovi\u0107, DPS, responsible persons in that party, and the activists of that party, committed the crimes they were charged with in this complaint. In addition, DPS official Milenko Mara\u0161 confirmed in a statement to the media that Stijepovi\u0107, for the needs of the election campaign, distributed \u20ac47.5 thousand to the headquarters in his home place, i.e. Zeta\u201d, it is stated in the complaint.<\/p>\n
Previously, due to suspicion of money laundering, MANS also filed a criminal complaint on February 4 against \u0110ukanovi\u0107, president of the Atlas Group Du\u0161ko Kne\u017eevi\u0107, businessmen Du\u0161an Ban and \u017deljko Mihailovi\u0107, as well as against the former director of the Administration for Prevention of Money Laundering, Predrag Mitrovi\u0107, due to \u0110ukanovi\u0107’s loan at Pireus Bank.<\/p>\n
On January 23, MANS filed a request to initiate proceedings in which APC would determine whether \u0110ukanovi\u0107 had violated the law because there is a suspicion that he did not report the income from Atlas Bank in the amount of at least \u20ac16,741.24, which is the amount of his debt on the payment card that was paid by Kne\u017eevi\u0107. APC rejected the request, after which we also filed a criminal complaint against the Agency Director Sreten Radonji\u0107 based on suspicion that he had abused his official position.<\/p>\n
The complaint was also filed to APC due to suspicion that Kne\u017eevic, with tens of thousands of Euros, financed the expenses of the trip to Dubai for Milo \u0110ukanovi\u0107 and Branimir Gvozdenovi\u0107, which they did not state in their income and property reports.<\/p>\n
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