The session of the Commission for Monitoring and Control of the Privatization Procedure scheduled for today was not held, because it did not have the necessary quorum of deputies.
At the session, the work plan of the Commission for 2022 was to be determined, and immediately after that session, a new one was to be held, at which the control of the privatization process of the hotel and villa "Avala", part of the company HTP "Budvanska Riviera" AD, was to be considered. Budva.
The president of the commission, Maksim Vučinić from the Workers' Party, appeared in the hall today, as well as MPs Božena Jelušić (URA), Zdenka Popović (Democrats), Jovanka Bogavac (PzP) and Nataša Jevrić (NSD).
Several deputies of the DPS, Andrija Popović from the Liberal Party, as well as the leaders of FORCE Genci Nimanbegu, i.e. Prava Crne Gora Marko Milačić and SNP Vladimir Joković did not attend the session.
In November, the commission adopted the initiative to include the sale of the Avala hotel in the privatization control plan, but it refused to hear the then president of the Privatization Council and the current president of the state, Milo Đukanović, because of the announcement that he would be heard about this, as well as other privatizations, before Anti-corruption committee.
That hotel with the associated land was sold from the ownership of "Budvanska Riviera" in 2004 for a total of 3,2 million euros to the company "Beppler & Jacobson Ltd", which was then backed by Zoran Bećirović and Igor Lazurenko. The Danish company "Merienlist hotels and casinos" offered 7,5 million euros.
The council canceled the tender with the explanation that the Danish company allegedly did not submit the necessary documentation on time.
Bećirović and his Russian partner appealed the Council's decision to cancel the tender and demanded that the sales contract be awarded to them as the second-ranked bidders. In the end, the final decision was made by the Court, whose panel included Ana Đukanović, the sister of the then prime minister and the president of the Privatization Council that sold the hotel. The verdict was to sell the hotel with all the land in the best location in Budva to Bećirović and his partner at a price of 3,2 million euros.
Đukanović later became the legal advisor of the company "Beppler & Jacobson Ltd".
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