"What did the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism (MORT) and its Construction and Urban Planning Inspection do regarding the illegal construction on state land, on plot 173/13 KO Krašići in Tivat, in front of the buildings owned by Miloš Medenica, the son of the President of the Supreme Court Vesna Medenica and his business partner Rad Arsić", is the question that Demos MP Nedjeljko Rudović will ask at the current session of the Assembly.
That question followed after MORT recently rejected a request for free access to information submitted to that body by MANS.
The work of MORT has been coordinated by Prime Minister Duško Marković since Minister Pavle Radulović (DPS) resigned at the beginning of November last year because of the scandal involving the disclosure of the corruption case of two construction inspectors. That department rejected the request for free access to information from MANS, which asked MORT to provide them with copies of all decisions and minutes that MORT, its Directorate for Inspection Affairs and Licensing, i.e. the Directorate for Inspection Supervision for the Southern Region, made acting according to the forwarded minutes of the Municipal Inspection of the Municipality of Tivat from April 22, and related to illegal construction on that plot.
The MORT stated that this information, "if it were available to the public, would significantly jeopardize the interest of the Ministry in performing its official duties, and therefore the further planning and performance of inspection supervision". "Premature disclosure of the requested information has the possibility of reaching conclusions and harming potential liability before the control and inspection are completed," the MORT decision reads. This whole case, by the way, was initiated at the beginning of April when the residents of Krašić reported that one of the two completed segments of the first phase of the new lungo mare promenade in that place, about thirty meters long, was literally cut off and taken away from the Municipality of Tivat and JP "Morsko dobro" as investors of that public utility facility, and citizens as its users.
At the time, the workers built two fence walls from concrete blocks on the shore under two large tourist villas and thus cut off the new promenade. The walls were built on a cadastral plot that is owned by the state, that is, the Municipality, under two villas under construction that are owned by Medenica and Arsić. According to the records of MANS, one of the walls with which the public promenade under construction was fenced and interrupted at the beginning of April is partly located on the plot owned by Arsić. Because of this, MANS filed criminal charges against Medenica and Arsić to the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica in mid-April, considering that the two committed the crimes of "illegal occupation of land" and "construction of a building without registration and construction documentation".
MANS then asked JP Morsko Dobro and MORT to conduct inspections at the disputed location in Krašići, but despite this, the construction continued, so that in front of two villas under construction on the coast of Krašići, between two illegal walls that "interrupted the promenade", in the meantime, concreting of the already built route of the promenade was done and another, third wall was built that "divides the usurped state land in half", and creates special parts like yards in front of the villas of two businessmen. By the way, in the construction of the first part of the lungo mare promenade in Krašići, which was supposed to prevent exactly this kind of illegal privatization of the seashore and make it accessible to everyone, the Municipality of Tivat and Morsko dobro as investors invested a little more than half a million euros last year.
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