Piles of garbage, various waste, broken inventory, an unpleasant smell that spreads around, painted walls - are no longer the image of the former restaurant "Golubinj" in the heart of Sveti Stefan.
In a major action organized over the weekend by representatives of the "Sveti Stefan" Local Community, to which the Protection and Rescue Service, the Municipal Company and numerous volunteers responded, the dilapidated restaurant was completely cleaned, and the premises and the surrounding part of the settlement were disinfected.
The President of the Council of the Ministry of Health Vladislav Mitrović told "Vijesti" that Golubinj is a mockery and a source of infection, a habitat for abandoned animals and vagrants.
"We decided to clean, disinfect, and close this area, which has been a bad image for our place for years, so that the practice of being a landfill, a public toilet and a source of infection in the heart of St. Stephen's does not continue," Mitrović said. He is pleased that firefighters, utilities and numerous locals immediately responded to the action. "We will not stop there, today we will carry out a similar action in Pržno, where we will clean the old business center in front of the Maestral hotel, where the offices of our local community have been adapted with the help of the Municipality of Budva", Mitrović said.
Golubinj for 14 years, since it got a new owner, is the testimony of another failed privatization.
The former "Golubinj" restaurant, which operated as part of the "Sveti Stefan" hotel, was sold back in 2006 for 350.000 euros to the "Fin invest" company, which was connected to the now fugitive businessman Duško Knežević, president of the "Atlas Group".
After that, the attractive property is bought by the foreign company "Fifth avenue investment limited", connected to Olivera Ilinčić, who is wanted by the Special Prosecutor's Office, as a member of the Budva criminal group headed by Svetozar Marović.
The High Court in Podgorica already in June of last year passed a temporary measure prohibiting the disposal, at the request of the Special State Prosecutor's Office, which blocked the one-story building of about 700 square meters.
Ilinčić, a former close associate of Serbian businessman Stanko Canet Subotic and a former adviser to the president of the state union SCG Svetozar Marović, is on the indictment recently filed by the Prosecutor's Office headed by Milivoje Katnić, accusing her of participating in fraud. Although it got a new owner at the end of January 2006, "Golubinj" was left to the test of time all the previous years. The restaurant was never a catering facility anymore.
Although in previous years there was an initiative by the locals to clean the restaurant "Golubinj" and restore the entire site, because it is located in the center of the summer resort itself, the fact that it is private property tied everyone's hands to react.
It is interesting that precisely on the site of "Golubinja", the detailed urban plan "Sveti Stefan", which was never given the green light, outlined a six-story building. "Golubinj" was for sale before the Special Prosecutor's Office launched an investigation, and around two million euros were demanded for it.
"Peta avenija", as the name of the company in the translation reads, which is registered as the owner in the cadastral records of the Real Estate Administration, manages two plots of land on the very foam of the sea in Bečići.
He is the owner of one thousand square meters, one between the "Splendid" hotel and Svetog Toma, where the planning documents show two 12-story single-storey buildings, as well as two and a half thousand square meters about a hundred meters away, next to the former "Naftagas" hotel. Both plots were blocked by investigators of the Special Prosecutor's Office as part of the investigation they conducted against Ilinčić.
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