The London firm "Beppler & Partners", one of whose owners is businessman Zoran Ćoćo Bećirović, made more than good money by buying the property of "Sinjajevina", one of the once very successful companies from Kolašin.
For just 120.000 euros, a little over eight years ago, Bećirović's company bought 302 hectares of forests and pastures, which belonged to "Sinjajevina", mostly on the most beautiful part of the mountain of the same name, but also about 1.000 square meters of business space, that is, buildings that used to be plants of that company.
First, in 2007, a barter was carried out with the local administration in Kolašin, so Zoran Bećirović received 440.000 euros in exchange for the ruined slaughterhouse building, which was also bought from the company "Sinjavina" and seven other plots, the value of which was estimated at more than 15.118 euros. square meters in the sports zone, just a few hundred meters from the city center.
During the exchange of land, which "Vijesti" already wrote about, the local administration of Kolašin estimated that the municipal land, which was transferred to Bećirović's company, is worth only 27 euros per square meter.
How it happened that only a year after he bought 302 hectares for 120.000 euros, only an insignificant part of the total property of "Sinjavina" was valued at almost four times the amount is difficult to explain.
The London company, i.e. the daughter company "Bepler Development Montenegro", to which ownership was transferred in 2010, did not stop there.
That year, only 32 hectares of pastures and forests in Sinjajevina, i.e. around the Kolasin village of Lipovo, also bought from "Sinjavina", were given as a pledge for a loan of 200.000 euros at Hipo Alpe Adria bank.
According to data from the Real Estate Administration, plots of land in Grkovo and Bezojevica and several hundred business premises in Mateševo were given as pledges.
The official address of the company "Bepler Development Montenegro" is the hotel "Bjanka".
In addition to the property in Sinjajevina, the ownership of 76 hectares of land in Dragovića Polje and 17 hectares in Mioska, as well as a thousand square meters of business space in those two villages and in Osreci, was transferred from the once successful Kolašina company to the company.
The property of "Sinjajevina", which has been in bankruptcy since the end of the 90s of the last century, was sold unsuccessfully for two years.
"Beppler and partners" appeared as a buyer after two years
Before "Beppler & Partners" became interested in these properties, the sale was unsuccessfully advertised three times in the proceedings, which were conducted against the bankruptcy debtor in the Commercial Court in Bijelo Polje.
The purchase agreement was signed on behalf of the London firm by lawyer Branko Čolović, and on behalf of the failed Kolašin company by bankruptcy trustee Dr. Bogdan Bulatović.
In addition to pastures and meadows with accompanying facilities for fattening bulls and lambs, "Sinjavina" also had 14 hectares of arable land in Vočje, on which an irrigation system was built. The processing capacity consisted of a slaughterhouse with a tannery, four milk purchase stations in Bara Kraljski, Dragovića Polje, Bistrica and in the city. It also had an enviable number of agricultural machines, as well as a fleet of vehicles. It employed more than 60 workers. In 1986, it was declared the best company in Montenegro, but already six years later, the company was declared bankrupt.
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