The municipality of Kotor reacted to the information that the resale of the Beskuća palace in the Old Town - a cultural monument of the third category - has been announced, warning the current vlanski that he is obliged to offer the property to the state, i.e. the local administration, according to the right of priority of purchase.
The municipality invited the seller - NLB Komercijalna banka from Belgrade, to give up the sale, which is carried out by the system of collecting bids in closed envelopes, because, as they said, if it is carried out like this, it would be null and void.
A few days ago, NLB Komercijalna banka Beograd again announced the sale of the Beskuća palace in the Old Town of Kotor, built in 1776 and registered as a cultural monument.
The same bank unsuccessfully tried to sell the property in 2016 and 2018, when it asked for 3 million euros.
In the latest advertisement, which is carried out by the company Ream doo from Podgorica on behalf and on behalf of NLB Komercijalna banka Beograd, however, neither the initial price nor the minimum price at which the buyer could come into possession of the valuable building, which is part of the monumental heritage of the Old Town in Kotor, is specified. .
"The said immovable property, in accordance with the provisions of the Law on the Protection of Cultural Property, is a cultural property. In this regard, the provision of Art. 45 of the Law stipulates that the state has the right of pre-emption of cultural property in private ownership, and which right, according to the provisions of paragraph 2 of Art. 45 of the Law, can be transferred to the Municipality. This further means that this immovable property had to be offered for sale to the State of Montenegro, at the established lowest starting price, and only in the event of the State's refusal to exercise its right of first refusal, at that same lowest starting price is to be advertised for sale publicly. Otherwise, the contract that would be the result of the violation of the right of pre-emption of the state of Montenegro would be absolutely null and void, which would be determined in the court proceedings", it is stated in the letter sent to the company Ream and NLB Komercijalkna Banka Beograd by the management of the Municipality of Kotor, in which " News" had an insight.
From the mayor's administration Vladimir Jokić (Democrats) warned the sellers of the Beskuća palace that the list of real estate states that it is an "architectural monument of the III category" and requested that they give up their intention to sell it in this way - without determining the initial price and offering to buy it for the state and then the Municipality that property.
Bearing in mind the above, and in order to comply with the mandatory legal provisions of the Law on the Protection of Cultural Property, we suggest that for the time being you abandon the public invitation, to determine the lowest starting price of the immovable property, and to contact the Government of Montenegro with an offer for the sale of this immovable property under the right of pre-emption Gore and the Municipality of Kotor", it is stated in the letter sent from the Municipality of Kotor to the sellers of the Beskuća Palace.
In the "Public announcement for the collection of binding offers" for the sale of this property, it is stated that it will be sold at a "negotiable price".
Interested buyers in the offer, in addition to the price they are willing to pay, should also specify the term and method of payment, as well as pay a deposit of 50.000 euros before that, as proof "of the seriousness of the offer".
Offers must be submitted in sealed envelopes by October 5.
Beskuća Palace is a three-story building about 50 meters east of the main city gate in the Old Town of Kotor. The building covers a land area of 443 square meters and has a yard of 113 square meters. The palace has a total of six separate residential and business spaces, individual areas of 207 and 106, and four of 345 square meters, so that its total useful area is 1.693 square meters.
The owner of the palace became a businessman in the mid-90s under unclear circumstances Vojin Lazarevic, an official of the then People's Party, and previously the palace was owned by the Municipality of Kotor.
In 2012, Lazarevic pledged the palace as a mortgage for a loan of 20 million euros with Hypo Alpe Adria Bank Internacional Klagenfurt. The mortgage was later transferred to Komercijalna banka Banjaluka, which, due to Lazarevičl's unpaid loan of 1,6 million euros, unsuccessfully put the Beskuća palace up for sale in 2016, at an initial price of 2,95 million euros.
According to the Law on the Protection of Cultural Property, the state has the right of first refusal to purchase cultural property that is in private ownership.
Therefore, in 2016, Komercijalna banka's lawyers informed the Ministry of Culture about the out-of-court sale of the Beskuća palace.
The Administration for the Protection of Cultural Property then proposed the Prime Minister to the Government Duško Marković (DPS) to buy a cultural monument, i.e. "so that it would be expedient to use the right of pre-emption", or to transfer this right, if the state does not intend to use it, to the Municipality of Kotor.
The Ministry of Culture, which was headed by Janko Ljumović, however, recommended to the government that the state waive the right of pre-emption, with the explanation that the Ministry "did not recognize the need to be the owner of the building in the territory of the municipality of Kotor, since it has no intended purpose for its use".
And the Municipality of Kotor, in which the DPS was in power at that moment, announced at the time that it was not interested in the purchase of the cultural property "due to the highly determined initial purchase price".
Komercijalna banka Beograd tried to sell the palace for three million euros in 2018 as well, but without success.
The attractive stone palace from the 18th century, located in the street that connects the main Square of Arms with the Market of Flour, was built in 1776 by Count Jozo Beskuća, the head of a once poor family that became rich in the maritime trade in the middle of the 18th century and rose to the nobility.
Count Jozo vowed to build 100 houses and changed his family name, which frustrated him, to Stokuć. During his lifetime, he was able to build "only" 99 houses in Boca and Italy, so in the end he remained officially Homeless. The family died out at the end of the 19th century, when their palace in the Old Town was taken over by the Municipality of Kotor.
Later, the palace came into the hands of Lazarevic, a former high functionary of the People's Party, republican and federal deputy, minister in the Government Filip Vujanović 1998 and a businessman especially known for reselling electricity.
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