Just a few months after "Lovćen film", which owns the "Cadmus Cineplex" cinema in TQ Plaza, forcibly collected as much as 665 thousand euros from the Municipality of Budva, and emptied the city coffers, claiming that justice was on their side, as it was confirmed by judgment of the Commercial Court, the Court of Appeal annulled that judgment and sent it back to the same court for a new decision, and the previous judge will be replaced in the new procedure.
As "Vijesti" confirmed, the verdict was submitted to the Secretariat for Property Protection of the Municipality of Budva, which succeeded in overturning Privredno's verdict before the Court of Appeal.
The Municipality of Budva and the Public Institution "Grad Teatar" sued the companies "Budva Cineplex Consortium", "Lovćen Film" and the Belgrade company "Art Vista" before the Commercial Court, demanding that it be established that the contract for the long-term lease of real estate was concluded on February 27 between the Municipality and "Budva Cineplex consortium" null and void. Also, it was requested to establish that the null and void contract on the realization of the cultural manifestation "Cadmus city Budva" concluded on July 15, 2015 between the Municipality of Budva, JU "Grad Teatar" and "Lovćen filma". The declaration of nullity was also requested for the annex to the long-term real estate lease agreement concluded on December 4, 2014 between the Municipality of Budva and the "Budva Cineplex consortium".
In March of this year, the Commercial Court rejected the lawsuit of the Municipality of Budva.
After that, the Secretariat for Protection of Assets, which is headed by Democrats, who are in their fourth year, is leading a legal battle through a law firm. Goran Rodić, overturned the judgment before the Court of Appeal.
And whether the film festival "Cinema city Budva" was ever realized, and whether the Municipality of Budva paid and how much to the company "Lovćen film" for the realization of that project, the Special State Prosecutor's Office is interested in, which ordered the Special Police Team back in February of last year to the local administration urgently submits all the documentation, both for the "phantom" festival, and for the construction and subsidies for the "Cadmus cineplex" cinema.
The team he manages Milivoje Katnic asked the Municipality of Budva to provide documents on how much money the Municipality paid to "Lovćen Film" for holding the festival and whether the festival was ever held, whether "Lovćen Film" concluded a contract on the realization of the festival in front of the "Budva Cineplex Consortium" ("Budva Cineplex Consortium"). Lovćen film" and Belgrade's "Art vista"), who received free 20-year use of office space in TQ Plaza, where the "Cadmus cineplex" cinema was opened. Katnić's investigators are also interested in promissory notes issued by the Municipality, as well as accurate information on when the bishop "Cadmus cineplex" was opened, whether and who signed the promissory notes to "Lovćen filmu", whether they were activated, whether annual subsidies exceeded 200 thousand euros and whether they were paid regularly...
These are just some of the data that the Special Prosecutor's Office insists on.
A year and a half ago, the criminal complaint to SDT was filed by the administration, which he headed Dragan Krapović, accusing the former municipal leadership, which consisted of DPS and SDP officials, as well as the leading people of "Lovćen filma" of embezzlement. It was in that criminal complaint that the public learned for the first time that in the period from 2015 to 2019, film festivals were to be held annually, for which at least 180 thousand euros were to be allocated, and that the Budva FEST was to be organized even in 2019. .
"Lovćen Filma" has repeatedly denied that the contract is harmful to the Municipality of Budva, and that the attacks on them are politically motivated.
"The Municipality of Budva is negligently causing enormous damage to all citizens, and this is something that clearly emerges from the facts concerning the relationship between the Municipality and 'Lovćen film'", said the PR department of "Lovćen film" in July of this year, after they forcibly charged 665 thousand euros.
In their response to the "News", they stated that "for several years now, the parts of the Municipality of Budva that are supposed to deal with the protection of its property, literally suicidal, do not want to fulfill their obligations from the contract for the construction of a cinema in Budva, Cadmus Cineplex".
DPS officials were also against the contract with the cinema
In 2014, the Municipality and Lovćen Film, after the approval of the Municipal Assembly, concluded a basic contract which gave "Lovćen Film" more than two thousand square meters of business space in the TQ Plaza complex, where the cinema was officially opened in May 20, for 2015 years of free use. , and the local administration also committed to an annual subsidy of 199 thousand euros according to the Lovćen film.
In the contract, the municipality also undertook to lease about 20 square meters of office space and about 1.500 square meters of non-residential space in the TQ Plaza complex to "Lovćen Film" for 200 years.
However, the then mayor Lazar Rađenović concludes the annex to the contract, according to which the municipality must pay 2015 thousand euros to Lovćen film for 2016 and 398, i.e. subsidies for the 19th and 20th years of the lease.
Immediately after Rađenović resigned, the annex to the contract was disputed by the then mayor Srđa Popović (DPS) and the vice-president of the municipality, the current MP of the DPS in the Montenegrin parliament, Suzana Pribilović, who already then raised a number of doubts about the contractual obligations left by their predecessor.
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