SDT asks Podgorica High Court for permanent seizure of Radoje Zvicer’s frozen assets

The Special State Prosecution (SDT) has asked the High Court in Podgorica for the permanent seizure of the frozen assets of Radoje Zviçer, the convicted leader of the Kavač cell of the Balkan drug cartel, as the Vijesti portal reports. Zviçer has been sentenced by a final ruling of the Podgorica High Court to a single prison term of 16 years, and the prosecution’s request includes evidence that the assets were gained through criminal activity.

The assets in question are real estate with a total area of at least 54,567 square metres in Podgorica, Kotor, Herceg Novi and Tivat — residential buildings, apartments, business premises, garages, orchards, yards and swimming pools — as well as expensive armoured vehicles.

The list of assets includes five apartments in Podgorica (85, 82, 52 and two of 72 square metres), two of them duplexes formally registered in the name of the company “Master Inženjering” but in fact belonging to Zviçer; a 355-square-metre duplex building in Kavač registered in the name of his wife T.Z.; buildings in Dub (1,238 m²) and Sutvara (1,408 m², with a swimming pool) in Kotor; a forest of 18,411 square metres in Kavač; 18,113 square metres in Bogišići, Tivat, registered in the name of Vladislav Jabučanin; and two Mercedes G500 vehicles registered in the name of D.M.

The SDT’s request, according to the prosecution’s announcement, is accompanied by evidence that the assets were acquired from criminal activity, and it is now up to the court to decide on the permanent seizure. Zviçer is considered one of the key figures of the Balkan drug cartel, and this is one of the largest cases of seizure of crime-derived assets in Montenegro’s history.