Drekalović answered Pavličić: Claim for compensation underestimated

The owner and director of the company KIPS Risto Drekalović said that their request for compensation to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg is not pretentious, unfounded or unrealistic, but rather underestimated.

He announced this in response to the statement by the representative of Montenegro before the European Court of Human Rights, Valentine Pavličić, who previously told "Vijesti" that KIPS and Drekalović presented their compensation claim "pretentiously", "unfounded" and "unrealistically". high" in the amount of several tens of millions of euros.

Drekalović says that the amount awarded was influenced by the Government's statement from the beginning of 2019, which Pavličić submitted to the court in Strasbourg. According to the owner of the company, Pavličić tried to prove in her statement that KIPS, by opening the shopping center in Cijevna in 2008, compensated for the damage it suffered due to the non-opening of the shopping center at the Old Airport.

"Unfortunately, the court did not give KIPS a chance to refute this senseless claim... Senseless because KIPS has no legal restrictions to operate in multiple locations in Podgorica, as the competition does. Pavličić's dealing with the plans of KIPS, where and how many shopping centers he will build in Podgorica is, to say the least, ridiculous...", said Drekalović in his rebuttal.

It was also pointed out that the case has not yet been concluded, and that KIPS continues to suffer obstructions from the Capital City.

"KIPS proves that Cijevna is not the only location in Podgorica where it wants to build, by purchasing a location in Zabjelo. For two years now, KIPS has not been able to build there due to obstructions in the Capital City. In an attempt to prove the advantages of the Cijevna location over the location at the Old Airport, Pavličić claimed in her address to the court that the "Cijevna location is fully equipped with communal infrastructure", while the Old Airport is communally undeveloped. It is an obvious truth that the location of Cijevna was completely unequipped with utilities, and there is indisputable and obvious evidence for that (it is not equipped with utilities even to this day),..." says the director of KIPS.

According to Drekalović, Pavličić mentioned the advantages of the "Cijevna" location, because "the plot at Stari aerodrome is 11,3 kilometers from Podgorica airport, 2,6 kilometers from the main highway M-2 and 2,3 kilometers from the Podgorica train station":

"However, what does the distance of the airport and the train station from the shopping center have to do with the point of making a profit? Do passengers carry cement, iron, ceramic tiles, cables, water pipes, doors and windows, furniture... on the plane or train.