Bijelo Polje: Criminal reports against two persons – one suspected of counterfeiting money; the other for unauthorized business activity

Officials of the Bijelo Polje Department of Security identified a person suspected of putting a counterfeit banknote into circulation and, upon the order of the state prosecutor at the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Bijelo Polje, filed a criminal report against the said person, S.A (23) from Bijelo Polje, due to suspicion that he committed the criminal offense of money counterfeiting. In 2023, an unknown person was reported at the pump station AD "Zatonpetrol" for putting a counterfeit 50 euro banknote into circulation during payment for services. Police officers from the Bijelo Polje Department of Security responded to the report, seized the counterfeit banknote, and took operational and other measures that led to identifying S.A. as the person who paid for goods purchased at the pump with a counterfeit 50 euro note. The officers of the Bijelo Polje Department of Security submitted a criminal report to the state prosecutor at the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Bijelo Polje against S.M (47) from Bijelo Polje, due to suspicion of committing the criminal offense of unauthorized business activity, including banking, stock exchange, and insurance activities. In 2023, he was suspected of engaging in business—producing food products—without registration or approval from the competent authority, selling these products to legal entities in Bijelo Polje to gain unlawful financial benefit at the expense of the Montenegrin Budget, as he did not legally register a company or register as an entrepreneur.