Findings
SECRETS OF CRIME – MURDER OF DUSKO JOVANOVIC: Prosecutor General Obstructed Investigation Upon Mandic’s Confession
Former chief of Podgorica Police Department, Milan Vujanovic, said that former Supreme State Prosecutor Vesna Medenica obstructed the investigation into the murder of the editor-in-chief of the daily "Dan", Dusko Jovanovic. Vujanovic claims that Medenica knew from the...
(VIDEO) DISPUTED PURCHASE OF LAND FOR CONSTRUCTION OF HIGHWAY: Veselin Veljovic earned 108,000 euros through fictitious business
The current defense and security advisor to the president of the state and former Director of the Police Administration, Veselin Veljovic, secretly sold a plot of 2,204 square meters in Doljani to the Capital town, headed by Mayor Miomir Mugosa, for about 108,000...
FORMER HEAD OF DEFENSE ADMINISTRATION OF MONTENEGRO BROKE LAWS: He hid company and millions in France with son-in-law from “Satellite” affair
The former head of the Defense Administration of Montenegro and an official of the until recently ruling Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) Borislav Lalevic and his son-in-law - football manager Milan Mile Calasan founded a company CSI SWI in Paris, France, in June...
I GIVE YOU A TENDER – YOU GIVE ME A THREE BEDROOM APARTMENT: Ministerial Affairs of Milutin Simovic and Businessman Tomislav Celebic
The suspicious connection between a million-dollar tender and the purchase of a three-room apartment Departing the president of the Municipality of Niksic and the former Minister of Agriculture and at the same time, the Deputy Prime Minister for the financial system...
(VIDEO) BLACK TOBACCO MARKET: Bulgarian mafia, with the help of the state, smuggles cigarettes through Montenegro
Although the European Union has donated hundreds of millions of euros to strengthen institutions and the rule of law since Montenegro's independence in 2006, only a kilometer from the EU embassy in Podgorica, illegal cigarette trade is booming, including brands...
STATE SECRET ANTI-PERSONNEL MINES: Montenegro violated Ottawa Convention and deceived the UN and OSCE for years
For years, the state of Montenegro has been hiding from the United Nations (UN) and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) that it has not got rid of anti-personnel mines, which it owns, and that it transports them through its territory,...
AFFAIR MOZURA: The Montenegro deal’s fictitious numbers
A new letter seen by The Shift reveals exactly how a Seychelles-registered offshore company with links to Yorgen Fenech’s 17 Black was used to set the stage for kickbacks in Malta’s tainted wind farm deal. In 2015, majority State-owned Enemalta took over a Public...
CONFLICT OF INTEREST: How are the housing loans awarded within the Investment and Development Fund
Zoran Vukcevic, former executive director and the chairman of the Board of Directors of the governmental Investment and Development Fund (IRF), used the public funds of that state fund for his private interest, in a way that contradicts the provisions of the former...
ACT ON PREVENTION OF CORRUPTION SHOULD BE AMENDED: Statesmen and public officials can hide millions because of a loophole in the law
The Law on Prevention of Corruption in Montenegro is made in such a manner to enable statesmen and public officials to hide assets worth millions from the Agency for Prevention of Corruption (APC) without legal consequences. This was concluded in the research...
BALKAN OIL ROUTES: The company of the SDA sponsor, getting millions worth of contracts from the Municipality of Podgorica
The Company “Hifa Oil CG”, owned by BiH businessman Izudin Ahmetlic, sponsor of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA), has been for years now doing business in Montenegro with the company “Putevi”, which is owned by the Municipal of Podgorica. According to the data...