The Parliamentary Committee for Economy, Finance and Budget should soon hold a session where Central Bank Governor Radoje Žugić will be heard regarding the new problems that 113 citizens have due to loans in Swiss francs.
At the beginning of this month, the public bailiffs started to block the accounts of these citizens after they renounced the lawsuit in the dispute with Adiko Bank due to the loan in Swiss francs in order to collect court costs according to the judgment of the Basic Court which was confirmed by the High Court.
The question was raised at the board meeting today by MP Miloš Konatar (URA), who said that he had several initiatives from citizens regarding this problem, after which the chairman of the board, Vladimir Joković, joined in and said that he had met with the lawyer of these citizens, Dragomir Ćalasan.
"They will initiate the procedure regarding that problem and we will have to listen to the governor," said Joković, adding that he will deal with it in the next two days.
According to the verdict of the Basic Court in Podgorica, which was confirmed by the Higher Court, each of the clients individually must pay 4.032 euros for court costs in the proceedings with the bank and another 3.600 euros each to the factoring company Heta, to which the bank transferred loans that it could not collect. These costs are additionally higher due to the interest. Their lawyers have filed a constitutional appeal requesting the annulment of the judgment according to which they have to pay court costs in the dispute they had with the bank.
In 2016, the state enabled citizens who took out loans in Swiss francs from Adiko Bank (formerly Hipo Aple Adria Bank) to convert those loans into euros under the conditions that were valid on the day they were taken out, i.e. with a fixed interest rate of 8,2 percent on an annual basis and without default interest.
This was done through a law adopted by the Parliament, which was preceded by a lawsuit filed by the clients.
Since the law fulfilled what the citizens demanded by the lawsuit, 113 of them gave up the lawsuit due to the economy of the procedure, while 154 clients did not give up the lawsuit.
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