Unholy Alliances

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Published: April 7, 2014

How Organized Crime, Government and Business Interact in Montenegro.

Montenegro has long desired to become a Balkan Monte Carlo. But instead it has become something unique in the Balkans: a crime state. A crime state where organized crime, government and business seamlessly work together in an Unholy Alliance.

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St. Nikola Island Front for Cigarette Smuggling

Montenegro is once again a smuggling hub for cigarettes bound for Italy.

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Montenegro: Buying up Paradise (Part 2)

Plans to turn the ancient coastal town on Budva into a new Monte Carlo collapsed leaving taxpayers the ultimate bill.

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Montenegro: Buying up Paradise (Part 1)

Serbian businessman Stanko Subotic, a close friend of the most powerful man in Montenegro, Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic, planned to turn a small coastal city into the next Monte Carlo. But crime, cigarettes, greed and bad luck got in the way.

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Montenegro: Prime Minister’s Family Bank Catered to Organized Crime

A documents obtained by OCCRP reveal indicted cocaine smuggler Darko Saric was First Bank of Montenegro’s top depositor and one of its biggest customers.

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Montenegro: Football, Politics, and Cocaine

Documents reveal a secret deal between officials of Montenegro's ruling political party and indicted cocaine smuggler Darko Saric.

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OCCRP Response to Stanko Subotic’s Letter

Serbian businessman Stanko Subotic has published a letter on e-novine.com and Pobjeda in response to the five-day series, Unholy Alliances, published by OCCRP in Vijesti, Dan, Delo, Oslobodjenje and other regional media. He did not send the letter to OCCRP or give us an opportunity to respond.

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