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The accused businessman Dushko Knezhevië was extradited to Montenegro from Great Britain on April 30, the Police Administration of Montenegro announced. Montenegro was looking for him for some criminal proceedings. "Due to the suspicion that he has committed criminal offenses of abuse of position in business activities by means of incitement, the creation of a criminal organization and money laundering", the police say.
Accordingly, the Special State Prosecution was looking for Knezhević, the owner of Atlas Group, since July 2019, and three indictments have been brought against him - for organizing a criminal group, money laundering and misuse in the economy. Since the beginning of the investigations, he has lived in Great Britain, of which he is a citizen. The extradition was carried out early in the morning on a special flight between London and Podgorica.
The extradition procedure was carried out by the Directorate of Police and the Special Prosecutor's Office of the State of Montenegro, on the one hand, and the Ministry of Home Affairs of Great Britain, with the support of the Office of the Liaison Officers of Great Britain in Belgrade and the Embassy of them in Podgorica.
Knezhević will be sent to the High Court in Podgorica. Four days before the extradition, former Prime Minister Dritan Abazović said that it would be good for the president of Atlas Group, Dushko Knezhević, to be a protected witness in Montenegro and tell the prosecution everything he knows about the businesses and economic activities of the former - the government. For years, Knezhević was considered by the local public as someone close to the former Prime Minister Millo Djukanović. He dealt with multi-million dollar businesses – banking, construction, education, media.
At the beginning of 2020, the Supreme Court of Podgorica confirmed the indictment against Knezhević in the "Karbon" case, as it is suspected that, together with four other members of the criminal group, he caused damage to the company Global Karbon and illegally benefited almost two million euros. Knezhević has also been accused in the "Airports" case, where together with the directors of his bank Atlas, Marko Nikolić and Dijana Zečević, they allegedly damaged the airports of Montenegro for three million euros. In 2019, the "Koverat" affair broke out, when Knezhević published a video in which he appeared handing over, as he claimed, 97,500 euros to the former mayor of the Municipality of Podgorica, Slavoljub Stijepović.
He said that it was money for financing the election campaign of the DPS authorities and that he did this in agreement with the DPS leader, Millo Gjukanović. In December 2019, an indictment was filed against Stijepović for money laundering, while Knezhević was labeled as the organizer of a criminal group. In March 2021, the Court of Appeal overturned the Supreme Court's decision and suspended the proceedings against Stijepović in the secret affair. The case was remanded for a new trial. Knezhević has repeatedly accused former state president and DPS leader Millo Djukanović of trying to take his jobs and property. Through social networks, along with intriguing messages, he has published a series of joint photos with President Djukanovic, their mutual friends, DPS officials and heads of the prosecution./REL
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