Due to a debt that exceeds two million euros, NLB will try for the 15th time to sell the property of the ambassador to the Vatican, Miodrag Vlahović, and his business partner, Niko Raičević.
In 2007, the ambassador and director of the Primary School "Dragiša Ivanović" from Podgorica took out a loan of 1,15 million euros, which is why they mortgaged the property in Herceg Novi.
NLB will try to sell a little more 18 square meters of forests and orchards in the cadastral municipality of Jošica at the auction on March 4.600 at its office in Herceg Novi.
It is emphasized that purchase offers must be submitted to the law firm "Velimirović/partneri" no later than March 13.
The initial price for the land is now 343.000 euros, and the debt of Vlahović and Raičević amounted to a little more than 2.030.000 euros on the last day of January.
Last year in July, the bank tried to sell the mentioned real estate for an initial price of 370.000, and then in October, when they lowered the offer to 350.000 euros.
In July, NLB Bank told the "News" that the total amount of the remaining debt of Vlahović and Raičević based on the contract from February 2007 and seven subsequent annexes on the last day of May 2018 amounted to EUR 1,97 million, stating that legal interest was included. until the date of payment of the debt, as well as the costs of the out-of-court sale procedure.
The Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (ASK) established at the beginning of May last year that Vlahović, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs and now the ambassador to the Holy See, violated the Law on the Prevention of Corruption because he did not submit an asset certificate.
A fine of 500 to 2.000 euros is imposed for violating the Law.
Vlahović then told the Agency that he had forgotten about this legal obligation, but his card is not in the register even now.
According to the last available record of Vlahović in the Agency's register from 2011, it is written that at that time he had a credit debt of 815.000 euros, and that he owned 14.901 square meters of land in Danilovgrad, half of the 87.712 square meters in the same city and half of the aforementioned land in Bijela .
In Raičević's file, it is written that he receives 645 euros a month and that he has three loans worth more than 1,17 million euros. In addition to the loan of 1.150.000 euros, in 2017 he also took out a cash loan of 11.500, and the debt on the credit card amounts to less than 13.800 euros. "Vijesti" tried to get a comment from Raičević, but he was not available on the phone numbers available to the newsroom.
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