The Municipality of Budva, i.e. its Administration of Local Public Revenues, initiated the procedure of forced collection of 55.101 euros of debt from the company "Safiro beach resort" because it did not pay the real estate tax for the attractive plot of 8.500 square meters that it owns in front of the halls of the Adriatic Fair in Budva.
This is written in the decision that "Vijesti" had access to.
If the debt is not settled, the Municipality will, as it did in January 2023 and a couple of years before, block the plot, registering a mortgage until the tax debts are settled.
It is about the land on which the Turkish company "Mia investments", with which "Safiro beach resort" concluded a joint construction contract six years ago, began the construction of a hotel with apartments for the "Riviera Montenegro Hotel & Residences" market, two towers of 15 and 16 floors.
The public found out about the company "Safiro beach" when he was a businessman Dusko Knezevic, who returned to Montenegro after several years and is currently in pre-trial detention in Spu, claimed that his land near the Adriatic Fair was stolen from him, and that behind the company from Podgorica "the leader of the DPS and the head of state are personally behind Milo Djukanovic and former Minister of Sustainable Development Branimir Gvozdenović”, and not British businessmen, as it says in the papers. His claims were immediately denied, and it was announced that the Cypriot company "Expom Hotels Partners Limited" is the XNUMX% owner of the land in Budva at the Adriatic Fair, which is used by the company "Safiro Beach Resort". The Cypriot company "Expom Hotels Partners Limited", as they said then, is owned by the British "Cocoon Group" based in London. The Prosecutor's Office was called on several occasions to deal with that company.
At the beginning of June, the Directorate for the implementation of state guidelines in the field of architecture of the Ministry of Spatial Planning, Urbanism and State Property issued a decision in a new procedure that approved the preliminary design of the five-star hotel "Riviera Montenegro Hotel & Residences".
At the beginning of February, the Directorate informed the Administrative Court that it acted according to the Law on Administrative Procedure in connection with an administrative dispute following a lawsuit filed by the Secretariat for Property Protection of the Municipality of Budva and issued a decision annulling the decision of the Ministry of Ecology, Spatial Planning and Urbanism of March 18, 2022, which consent was issued to the company "Mia Investments" for the conceptual design of a hotel with apartments.
The decision of the Administrative Court ordered a retrial, which is a department headed by the minister Janko Odović did, and brought the same solution as three years ago, when the company which, according to the Central Register of Business Entities, brings together businessmen from Turkey, got the green light to build towers on a plot of 8.500 square meters in front of the Adriatic Fair, just 30 meters from Slovenska beach, the only remaining undeveloped location by the sea in Budva.
The municipality of Budva immediately announced that it will file a lawsuit to the Administrative Court as soon as possible to annul the decision made by Odović's department.
V. d. Secretary of the Secretariat for Property Protection of the Municipality of Budva Vlado Ivanovic he recently told "Vijesta" that this decision was made with significant violations of the rules of administrative procedure.
The project was approved by the Directorate of the Chief State Architect, which he then managed Mirko Žižić, the construction of a five-star hotel with 358 accommodation units in the form of hotel rooms, studio apartments and suites with a total number of 858 guests is planned.
In the past few months, several tens of apartments have already been sold, and the sales took place a few days ago, when the last note was entered in the cadastral records on the plot.
Krapović and Zenović called on the SDT to deal with the case
Even though Odović's ministry canceled the approval of the conceptual solution back in February, the Turkish company worked smoothly all the time, practically until the beginning of June, when the construction site was sealed, and then approval was given again.
This was repeatedly warned by the former Assistant Secretary for Property Protection of the Municipality, Đorđe Zenović (Democrat), who in mid-March submitted a criminal complaint to the Special State Prosecutor's Office against an unknown person from the Directorate for Inspection Supervision and Licensing of the Ministry due to suspicion of abuse of official position.
At that time, he asserted that the construction application to the company "Mia investment" was not cancelled, even though their consent to the preliminary design of the future complex was canceled by the relevant ministry.
Zenović, who has been waging a legal battle challenging the construction for years, emphasized in his report to the prosecutor's office that the inspectors did not prohibit the execution of the works.
The "Mia investment" case was also questioned by the Minister of Defense, former Mayor Dragan Krapović, who reported the entire case to the SDT, and recently added a criminal complaint.
In April 2022, Krapović filed a criminal complaint, when he asked the then Acting Supreme State Prosecutor Maja Jovanović, the Chief Special Prosecutor Vladimir Novović and the then Director of the Police Administration Zoran Brđanin to investigate the origin of the money for the construction of the towers, as well as the connections of Montenegrin politicians in that project, from Milo Đukanović and Branimir Gvozdenović, who were mentioned by Duško Knežević, and all the mortgages that were registered on the land from Piraeus Bank, up to the registered mortgages of the company "Carinvest RS" of the family of the former President of the Municipality Marko Carević. He asked to investigate all the circumstances of who was involved in that project. At the end of April, Krapović also admonished Odović's ministry because it did not respond to his public speech in which he asked that it was extremely indicative that the urban planning inspector who was at the construction site did not seal it, despite the fact that the consent to the conceptual solution, which is an integral part, was rejected part of the construction application.
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