The introduction of bankruptcy in the Pljeval company "Vektra Jakić" was welcomed by the former workers of that wood processing company, to whom the owner Dragan Brković owed more wages.
This is what Žarko Mazalica, one of the workers, told "Vijesta", who claims that in this way the former workers will get their claims faster.
In the company "Vektra Jakić", production was stopped on December 12, 2018, when the employees were referred to the Labor Bureau. The electricity and water supply to the factory has been cut off for a long time due to non-payment of bills.
On December 26, the Commercial Court opened bankruptcy proceedings against the Pljeval company "Vektra Jakić" owned by businessman Dragan Brković. Bankruptcy was introduced at the proposal of the Revenue and Customs Administration.
150 workers are waiting for the payment of arrears of wages and the connection of work experience in four years
"The commercial court, deciding on the proposal to open bankruptcy proceedings against "Vektra Jakić" after the previous bankruptcy proceedings, adopted the proposal of the creditor of the Revenue and Customs Administration to open bankruptcy proceedings", it was announced by the Commercial Court.
Brankica Mosurović was appointed as bankruptcy trustee, using the method of random allocation.
As of October 20, 2021, the Revenue and Customs Administration is seeking bankruptcy in the company "Vektra Jakić" due to tax and concession debt of 7,4 million euros. It is a debt related to taxes and concession fees.
The proceedings before the Commercial Court were suspended a little over a year ago because Brković's company requested the disqualification of judge Danijela Vukčević, who in the meantime moved to the Court of Appeal.
"Vektra Jakić" claimed that they have a larger part of the money and that the unsecured amount should be specified in order to settle it. The UPC said that they have no intention of doing so before the bankruptcy is opened, when they will file a claim.
Mazalica says that Brković owed the employees between 15 and 40 wages, and their work experience has not been linked for four years.
"We, the workers who feel the most threatened, submitted our claims to the Agency for Peaceful Dispute Resolution so that our case would not become obsolete. We couldn't wait for the bankruptcy to be introduced and we are grateful to whoever did it. For years, the introduction of bankruptcy was delayed because of Brković and the judges. Previously, workers were in the last pay row. The law has changed and now workers are in the first line of payment. This happened with the company Komunalne usluge, where the bankruptcy administrator paid the workers' claims ten days after the bankruptcy was introduced. "Vektra Jakić" should start production as soon as possible because 500 young people could be employed in this factory, who would stay in this environment instead of leaving Pljevlja, as is the case so far," said Mazalica. .
He pointed out that 150 former workers are waiting for the payment of back wages.
"Out of that number, 80 filed lawsuits, and only 20 of them managed to collect their claims," said Mazalica.
Former workers of "Vektra Jakić", last year and this year, protested several times in front of the company where they worked for years, after the owner of the Pljeval company Dragan Brković, as they claim, did not keep his promise regarding the payment of outstanding debts.
Since 2007, almost all the assets of "Vektra Jakić" have been mortgaged. The owner of all real estate - land and buildings of this factory is the Hungarian OTP bank due to an unpaid loan of about seventy million euros.
The President of the Municipality of Pljevlja, Dario Vraneš, recently assessed that "Vektra Jakić" is the cancer-wound of the Pljevlja economy.
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