{"id":221830,"date":"2026-11-11T12:35:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T10:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=221830"},"modified":"2026-11-11T12:35:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T10:35:04","slug":"spc-had-as-many-as-22-accounts-at-alta-banka-four-were-opened-just-a-few-months-before-the-bank-was-shut-down-after-383-million-disappeared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/spc-had-as-many-as-22-accounts-at-alta-banka-four-were-opened-just-a-few-months-before-the-bank-was-shut-down-after-383-million-disappeared\/","title":{"rendered":"SPC HAD AS MANY AS 22 ACCOUNTS AT ALTA BANKA: Four were opened just a few months before the bank was shut down, after \u20ac383 million disappeared!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Macura took \u20ac383 million from Alta Banka<\/a> and was then arrested. The most difficult task of untangling Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107\u2019s financial web has fallen to Serbian prosecutors, but investigators in Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina will face no smaller burden, judging by the extensive political and business connections Macura established across the region in a short period of time. The Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC)<\/a> had as many as 22 accounts at Alta Banka, four of them opened just a few months before the bank was shut down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davor Macura, owner of Alta Banka, was arrested yesterday in Belgrade after it was established that he had removed more than \u20ac380 million from the bank\u2019s vault over the course of several days. His arrest was preceded by searches of the bank and his home that lasted almost 40 hours. The collapse of Alta Banka came after the parliamentary elections in Serbia on October 25, in which Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107, an unchallenged autocrat who had held power for decades, lost control of the government. During Vu\u010di\u0107\u2019s rule, Macura went from owning a modest currency exchange office to becoming the owner of a bank, several major companies in Serbia and the region, and real estate properties… Alta Banka received huge state contracts without tenders, such as the exclusive arrangement for paying electricity bills through that bank, as well as contracts with Belgrade\u2019s Parking Servis. Meanwhile, Serbian institutions never responded to numerous pieces of evidence of obvious state and political patronage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

M portal has written on several occasions about Alta Banka and Davor Macura, his ties to regional businessmen, the Montenegrin government and local companies. Credit arrangements that Alta Banka negotiated with Lu\u0161tica Development under extremely unfavourable terms, with mandatory approval from the Montenegrin government, which owns almost 13 percent of the luxury resort; the licence to provide payment services; plans to take over Addiko Bank branches before officially obtaining a banking licence; and Davor Macura\u2019s personal connections \u2014 none of this would have been possible without political patronage from the authorities in Montenegro, which in turn involved Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107\u2019s political backing of Montenegro\u2019s ruling structures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nor would Alta Pay Group have been able to operate in the Bosnia and Herzegovina entity of Republika Srpska without the political patronage of Milorad Dodik. It was Alta Banka that provided a \u20ac22 million loan to the Republika Srpska government in February this year to repay a debt to a local private company. Macura also provided financing to the Jahorina Ski Centre while it was headed by Dejan Ljevnai\u0107, a former BIA agent and another figure from Vu\u010di\u0107\u2019s circle of influential associates. After Jahorina, which he left burdened with debts of tens of millions of euros, Ljevnai\u0107 went on to become one of the directors at the Lu\u0161tica resort, as M portal also reported in June this year. Ljevnai\u0107 was still among Lu\u0161tica\u2019s management when Milojko Spaji\u0107\u2019s government approved Lu\u0161tica Development\u2019s borrowing from Alta Banka. Only after the government withdrew its approval did news emerge that Ljevnai\u0107 had been dismissed from the resort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Special State Prosecutor\u2019s Office and the Basic State Prosecutor\u2019s Office in Kotor have had anonymous criminal complaints against responsible persons at Lu\u0161tica Development before them for months, concerning the company\u2019s credit arrangements with Alta Banka, as we reported yesterday. The complaints were filed long before Prime Minister Milojko Spaji\u0107 began publicly speaking about hybrid threats, and even before his first approval \u2014 followed by the subsequent withdrawal of approval \u2014 for Lu\u0161tica to borrow another \u20ac15 million from Alta Banka, secured by a mortgage on the marina and promenade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On April 17 this year, the NGO MANS asked the Supreme State Prosecutor\u2019s Office for copies of documents and records showing how prosecutors had handled anonymous criminal complaints concerning Lu\u0161tica Development and employees of the company. MANS also requested information about the actions taken, the status of the complaints and the \u201cpersons covered\u201d by the proceedings from state institutions. However, the Supreme State Prosecutor\u2019s Office forwarded the request to the Special State Prosecutor\u2019s Office, which then passed it on to the Basic State Prosecutor\u2019s Office. Both institutions refused to respond to MANS\u2019s request for free access to information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In its decision rejecting access, the Special State Prosecutor\u2019s Office stated that proceedings in case Ktr-S 577\/25 had \u201cnot been concluded\u201d and that it had \u201cestablished that it possesses the requested information\u201d. In its decision rejecting access, the Basic State Prosecutor\u2019s Office in Kotor said that disclosure would reveal \u201cwhether a case has been opened against the named person or not\u201d. Unofficially, the criminal complaints concern reasonable suspicion that a series of economic crimes were committed in an organised manner, including document forgery and the presentation of false balance sheets and false business information. They also mention that the interest rate on loans from Davor Macura\u2019s Alta Banka reached an astonishing 11 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The responses from the Special State Prosecutor\u2019s Office and the Basic State Prosecutor\u2019s Office in Kotor could suggest that certain actions have already been taken in connection with the anonymous criminal complaints, but that details cannot be disclosed in the interests of the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lu\u0161tica Development opened two business accounts at Alta Banka \u2014 one foreign-currency account and one dinar account \u2014 on September 13, 2022, the same day Alta Banka approved its first long-term loan, worth \u20ac8.3 million. Lu\u0161tica received approval for the loan from the Montenegrin government, which was then headed by Dritan Abazovi\u0107, and a first-ranking mortgage was placed on two buildings at The Chedi Lu\u0161tica Bay hotel. The cadastral information cited in the government document states that these were Building 1 on cadastral plot 1117\/184 (a footprint of 1,405 square metres, three above-ground floors, 48 separate units \u2014 31 parking spaces, eight non-residential units, three technical rooms and six commercial tourism premises, with a total area of 2,959 square metres) and Building 1 on cadastral plot 1117\/21 (a footprint of 2,208 square metres, with a basement, ground floor and 15 upper floors, 49 separate units, with a total area of 3,411 square metres). Both are registered in property deed No. 732, cadastral municipality of Radovi\u0107i, Municipality of Tivat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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