Five Serbs and two Montenegrins were charged in the United States with $16 million in fraud.
Five Serbian and two Montenegrin citizens are accused of embezzling funds from the US COVID-19 relief fund, a correspondent reports. "PolitNavigator".
Five Serbian citizens and two Montenegrin citizens will appear in the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. They are accused of activating previously closed foreign companies and, as false representatives of these companies, submitting loan applications to the federal Small Business Administration (US Small Business Administration). The investigation believes that through at least 13 companies they illegally received at least $16 million from the US government budget, the website of the country's Ministry of Justice reports.
All defendants have dual citizenship - American and Serbian/Montenegrin. They are tried at the federal level, that is, on charges of criminal offenses that are governed by federal laws and are punishable in all 50 states. All federal crimes related to fraud and money laundering carry a maximum penalty of up to 20 years in prison to be served in a federal institution, the Serbian BBC notes.
How to reported “PolitNavigator”, in early October, Prime Minister of Montenegro Dritan Abazovic showed a photograph in which, as he claims, the country’s President Milo Djukanovic was depicted in the company of the “Shkalar clan” - one of the most famous criminal groups in the region.
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