Podgorica company "Global TS Montenegro", owned by a naturalized Montenegrin billionaire Taksin Shinawatra, will most likely have to demolish a three-story concrete building on the island of Sveti Nikola opposite Budva, after the Directorate for Inspection Supervision of the Ministry of Spatial Planning, Urbanism and State Property rejected the company's appeal and confirmed the decision of the urban planning and construction inspector made two and a half years ago.
This is stated in the decision of the department headed by the minister. Slaven Radunović which "Vijesti" had insight into.
It is a reinforced concrete structure, built by the former owner of part of the island, a Belgrade businessman. Nenad Djordjevic, who sold the attractive property to a company of a controversial Serbian businessman Stanko Subotić, and this one to a Thai billionaire.
As stated in the explanation of the decision, at the end of June 2022, the relevant Ministry rejected the appeal of Shinawatra's company against the decision of the urban planning and construction inspector of May 27 of that year, which ordered the demolition of "illegally constructed building number 2 with dimensions in the base of 18 x 6 meters, with an eclair addition of 6 x 1,9 meters, constructed three floors of the building with reinforced concrete slabs above the third floor on the island of Sveti Nikola."
The inspector stated in the decision that the building does not qualify as primary housing.
The company "Global TS Montenegro" initiated an administrative dispute before the Administrative Court, which annulled the decision of the urban planning and construction inspector at the end of October 2023. The Administrative Court did not enter into the factual merits of the claims, but annulled the decision because the inspector had incorrectly marked it (wrong number and date), and ordered the relevant ministry to decide again on the appeal of Shinawatra's company.
"The Ministry of Spatial Planning, Urbanism and State Property, taking into account the allegations from the Administrative Court's judgment, considered the appeal decision, the appeal and the case files, and rejected the appeal. Based on the undisputed facts and provisions of the law, the urban planning and construction inspector correctly ordered "Global TS Montenegro" to demolish the illegal building," the decision reads.
As explained, no legalization decision was obtained from the Municipality of Budva for the illegal building, and that the building was built contrary to regulations that required obtaining a building permit at the time of construction. That the inspection issued a decision, and that until recently it was entered in the real estate register, where there was a note.
The Municipality of Budva, or rather its Secretariat for Urban Planning and Sustainable Development, rejected in February 2022 a request from the Podgorica-based company "Global TS Montenegro" to legalize illegally constructed 350 square meter single-storey buildings on the island of Sveti Nikola near Budva.
"The request of 'Global TS Montenegro' DOO Podgorica for the legalization of an illegal facility is rejected as untidy," the decision read.
In July 2021, Šinavatra's company submitted a request to the departmental secretariat requesting the legalization of business premises with a total gross area of about 350 square meters, i.e. 300 square meters of net area. As stated, the wild objects were built in 2007, they were moved in and real estate tax is paid for them.
The reason for the rejection of the request, as stated in the decision previously published by "Vijesti", is that the Podgorica company's submission had shortcomings that prevented action, and it was requested that documentation be submitted within 30 days, which was not done.
"Vijesti" then announced that on the island, that is, the part owned by Šinavatra, there are a total of 900 square meters of illegally built buildings, which are officially registered in the cadastre of this company's property.
"Recording the existence of the building, namely building one under construction with a ground floor and first floor of 762 square meters and building number two under construction with a ground floor and two floors, they do not have a permit and the construction is partly on someone else's land, all according to the report," the real estate document states.
In April 2017, the company of the richest Montenegrin concluded a purchase agreement with the Podgorica company "San Investments", which is backed by controversial Serbian businessman Stanko Subotić Cane, thus becoming the owner of 37 thousand square meters of land on the island of Sveti Nikola, where stone single-storey buildings had already been built without permission. Shinawatra paid 24 million euros for this valuable piece of the largest Montenegrin island.
The illegal structures on the island were first built by the previous owner, Belgrade businessman and former JUL politician Nenad Đorđević, who sold the attractive part of the island to Subotić back in 2007, precisely because, as he stated at the time, the obstruction of state authorities that did not allow him to realize his ambitious plans. Đorđević, who owned three attractive properties in Budva, the “Admiral” hotel, the old building of the Yugoslav River Shipping Company near the Old Town, and the southeastern part of the island, began construction on the popular Hawaii or Školje, as the locals call it, without a permit. The state thwarted this and in the summer of 2002, an inspection accompanied by police demolished part of the building that had been started with dynamite.
Đorđević decided to sell part of the island to Subotić's company in 2007 for 20 million euros. Subotić took out a loan for the purchase from Prva Banka, a businessman Aca Đukanović, the brother of the former head of state Milo Đukanović. Đorđević also sold the building to a JRB businessman Dragan Brković for three million euros, and the "Admiral" hotel to Russian investors.
The spatial plan for special purposes envisages the urbanization of the island - the construction of hotel facilities with a total of 500 beds, as well as a marina with 50 berths.
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