We will kill you if your wife does not bring us money: Confession of the businessman Srdjan Knezevic, from whom the mobster asked 120,000 euros

Srdjan Knezevic, Photo: Private archive

The businessman Srdjan Knezevic, owner of the gas station chain “Knez Petrol”, in a confession of “Hello!” revealed the details of the agony he survived in Budva when Montenegrin criminal Milan Kaloštrović and Aleksa Stanković, son of Ivica Stanković, the Supreme State Prosecutor of Montenegro, tried to extort a fictitious debt of 120,000 euros!

– The mobster hit me on the head and ribs with a pistol at the “Hemingway” cafe in Budva and demanded 120,000 euros, saying that he would kill me and cut me up. He screamed that interest flows every hour and that the debt will reach 1,000,000 euros if I don’t create money for them immediately! We have both known each other for a long time, we cooperated for four or five years and there were no problems. When I told him that I did not owe him money, he took his mobile phone and called my wife, who was in Belgrade at the time. I had his phone number because we’ve known each other for several years – says Knezevic, recounting the telephone conversation between Kalostrovic and his wife.

– He threatened her urgently that night to take the money to Baje Pivljanina street in Dedinje. He said he wouldn’t find me alive if I disobeyed him. Then the prosecutor’s son took the phone out of his hand and yelled, “Do you know who I am ?!”, while hitting me on the chest and head. He told me that I should be glad that he was there too because supposedly Kalostrovic would kill me right away, Knezevic tells us in a panic, saying he survived a severe shock and is still recovering.

It all happened on August 24 this year in front of numerous witnesses, and Knezevic described the kidnapping in detail in statements to the police and prosecutors. The businessman traveled to Montenegro on August 21 with his mother Anica and two children aged nine and seven. They arrived in Tivat and rented a yacht from a company. Three days later, he went to Budva, where he had an appointment with business associates at the “Hemingway” cafe.

While he was sitting at the table with two acquaintances, Milan Kaloštrović approached him, when it had been a long time since he had seen him.

– Kaloštrović came up to me uninvited and held out his hand. I held out my hand, but he pushed me away saying, “Let’s talk about something.” He took me in front of the jewelry store, ten meters from the terrace of the bar. There he began to insult me ​​and threaten me: “I’m going to cut you, I’m fucking your mother! You have to save me 120,000 euros before morning!”, Knezevic recalls, stating that that same night he went to the Tivat police, where gave testimony for two and a half hours.
– Eight or nine days ago, Kalostrovic entered Serbia illegally because he was prohibited from entering our country. He had a vehicle with UNCHR plates and a French diplomatic passport. He introduced himself as a human rights activist. The police also found a fake Montenegrin police badge near him, while he also had a police uniform on the car. I know that he was arrested and that he is now being held in Belgrade Central Prison, says Knezevic.

Srdjan Knezevic, Photo: Private archive

The trial in this case was scheduled for October 5, but was postponed because the defendant Kaloštrović was detained in Serbia.

– The accusation was brought by the prosecutor Momir Tešić and the case was entrusted to Momirka Tešić, a judge at the Kotor Court of First Instance. I couldn’t go to Kotor for trial because, on top of it all, I was lying about Kovid-19. I told the judge that I could not come and now I am waiting for a new summons because I do not know when the trial was postponed – says at the end Srdjan Knezevic, who returned from a summer vacation in Budva with numerous injuries to the head, ribs and cuts in the legs.

He was harassed in the presence of policemen

The police report indicates that Kaloštrović pushed Knezević into the jewelry store, where two workers were. There, in front of them, he hit him on the head and shot him. Knezevic asked the workers to call the police, but they did not react. When he returned from the jewelry store to the café terrace, Knezevic sat with acquaintances, who were there all the time, but Kalostrovic returned. At that time, he was accompanied by Aleksa Stanković, son of the Supreme State Prosecutor of Montenegro, who has a relationship with Darko Šarić’s daughter, whom Knezević does not know. At the next table sat four obese people dressed in black. He later learned that members of the police were on official duty and were guarding the prosecutor’s son. They were later joined by a prosecutor from the Basic State Prosecutor’s Office in Podgorica. A new round of harassment began and Kaloštrović constantly hit Knežević on the thigh with a pistol that he kept in his Bermuda pocket.