The indictment of the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) contains the claim that a member of the accused group, Prokopije Peri\u0107, acted on the instructions given to him by Sander Stanaj, ordering cigarettes from Bulgaria for the company \"International Tobacco Trade\" from Bosnia and Herzegovina. The case concerns the former owner of Rok\u0161ped, Sander Stanaj, former police and ANB official Du\u0161ko Golubovi\u0107, Peri\u0107, the former director of Rok\u0161ped, and a number of other individuals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"The goods that were taken out of the Free Zone of the Port of Bar without customs clearance were imported into it through the actions of a member of the criminal organization, the defendant Prokopije Peri\u0107, who accepted the tasks transferred to him by the defendant Nuo Stanaj on behalf of and for the account of the criminal organization to procure cigarettes from Bulgaria, by ordering them for the company DOO 'International Tobacco Trade' from Bosnia and Herzegovina, through communication by e-mail or in another way with a female person named Tereza, from Bulgaria, a representative of the KT International Sofia factory, but also by directly meeting with her in Bulgaria,\" the indictment states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chobanov explains that the two owners of KT International \u2013 Anton Shterev and Atanas Petrov \u2013 have a long history of violating customs regulations and are registered in cases of bribing officials to conceal their activities and ensure impunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"They were close business associates of the Bulgarian oligarch Delyan Peevski. Peevski was the owner of the Bulgartabak company, which is designated in official reports by Turkish authorities as one of the main cigarette smugglers. He was sanctioned for corruption by the United States under the Global Magnitsky Act, as well as by Great Britain. Given the influence that Peevski has over the Bulgarian police, customs and prosecutor's office, I do not believe that any serious law enforcement measures will be taken in Bulgaria against the company KT International,\" says Chobanov.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He claims that Petrov and Shterev have well-established ties to oligarch Delyan Peevsky, who is under sanctions under the Magnitsky Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThese two are known as \u2018Pesa\u010dit\u2019 and are also the owners of the company \u2018Vinprom Pe\u0161tera\u2019. They are the real, ultimate owners of the company \u2018KT International\u2019, which exported cigarettes to Russia worth more than $1.3 million after the start of the war in Ukraine. \u2018Pesa\u010dit\u2019s\u2019 connection with Deljan Peevski was revealed in investigations into cigarette smuggling through the company Bulgartabak, owned by Peevski, several years ago. In addition, Peevski and the founders of \u2018Vinprom Pe\u0161tera\u2019 were partners in the now-defunct retail chain \u2018Lafka\u2019,\u201d Chobanov said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The indictment of the Montenegrin prosecutor's office, in addition to Du\u0161ko Golubovi\u0107 and Sander Stanaj, also includes the former director of \"Rok\u0161ped\" Prokopije Peri\u0107, the owner of the \"Petanovi\u0107\" pharmacy Andrija Petanovi\u0107, Mileta Simani\u0107, Adnan Sukovi\u0107, Predrag Mad\u017egalj, Dejan Mili\u0107, Radoje Daki\u0107, Ivan Tur\u010dinovi\u0107, Vukota Vujo\u0161evi\u0107, as well as Stanaj's fugitive brother Nuo, Veton Beri\u0161aj, \u0110oko Lje\u0161kovi\u0107 and Abedin Pepi\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The prosecution charges them with forming a criminal group and smuggling millions of cigarettes from the Free Zone of the Port of Bar during 2020 and 2021.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It is not surprising that the company KT International is likely involved in cigarette smuggling, said Atanas \u010cobanov, editor and journalist of the Investigative Portal Bivol.bg from Bulgaria, in a statement to the RTCG Portal, commenting on SDT's claims that former director of \"Rok\u0161ped\" Prokopije Peri\u0107 purchased smuggled cigarettes in Bulgaria.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":947245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1963,3912,1239],"naslovna":[5433],"class_list":["post-970402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hronika","tag-bugarska","tag-duvan","tag-mafija"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n