Podgorica, (MINA) – The Special State Prosecutor’s Office (SDT), acting on the report of the Special Police Department, has opened criminal proceedings against the company Tehnomax, its owner Vesko Petranovic and Dusan Vukadinovic, charged with two criminal offenses of money laundering.

According to the SDT, the subject of the investigation is the concealment and misrepresentation of the ownership of property known to have been obtained through criminal activity.

According to the prosecution, in the period between mid 2019 and the end of 2024, D.V. used the cash of V.P. in the amount of EUR 80,000, from the legal entity “H. b.”, to buy a 2,656 m², plot of land ​​with a residential and commercial building, which were registered in the name of D.V., in order to conceal its ownership, although the actual owner was V.P.

It is added that V.P. then with money originating from criminal activity and with the money of the legal entity “T.”, in which the defendant V.P. was executive director, financed the reconstruction, adaptation, extension and repurposing of the buildings, while in the company’s business books, the expenditures were recorded as regular costs, even though the property was not owned by the company.

“In this way, their value of the property increased manifold. The defendant D.V., as the formal owner of the property and the defendant V.P., the actual owner and the responsible person of the legal entity “T.”, concluded a sales contract, under which the property was sold to the company for the amount of EUR 200,000, although the purchase price was never paid”, says the SDT.

The property was then entered in the company’s books as its property and its value was determined in an amount exceeding EUR 610,000.

TThenvestigation also includes the allegations that D.V., with cash originating from criminal activities, bought business premises in Niksic for EUR 55,000 in February 2023, and sold it in October of the same year to a certain legal entity for EUR 40,000 and thus concealed its illegal origin.

The SDT said that V.P. is in custody in a separate criminal case, while D.V. has been on the run since before the proceedings were launched.