The Tsarevićs demanded that a key piece of evidence be excluded

The "Geo arch project" report remains in the case, the judge decided

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Continuation of the trial on November 28: Marko Carević, Photo: Savo Prelević
Continuation of the trial on November 28: Marko Carević, Photo: Savo Prelević
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Judge of the Basic Court of Kotor Veljko Bulatović rejected the proposal of the legal representative of the former president of the Municipality of Budva Marko Bata Carevica and his son Milana to exclude from the file of the case in the process against them due to the usurpation of state property in the village of Krimovice, Grbalje, the study of the "Geo arch project", which carried out parcelization in the locality where the Tsarevićs built stables and an agricultural farm without a building permit.

That is what is written in the solution that Vijesti had access to.

When asked by Bulatović whether the accusation was based on this study, the state prosecutor, as told to Vijesti, stated that it was one of the pieces of evidence that was proposed to be implemented.

Judge Bulatović then issued a decision scheduling the main trial for November 28, when he called for the presence of an expert witness as well as the protector of property and legal interests of Montenegro in addition to the defendants.

We remind you that at the end of August last year, the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Kotor submitted an indictment to the Kotor Basic Court against Marko Bata Carevic for the criminal offense of illegal occupation of land in Krimovica.

His son Milan is charged with the criminal offense of illegal occupation of land and the criminal offense of building a building without registration and construction documentation.

The indictment includes the company Carinvest.

The network for the affirmation of the non-governmental sector MANS announced back in 2020 that the agricultural complex in Krimovica, which was built by the Tsarević family company, was built on half a million square meters of state land, where buildings were built without a building permit.

At the end of November 2021, the company "Carinvest" submitted a lawsuit against Montenegro to the Basic Court of Kotor, requesting that it be recognized as the owner of over 620 thousand square meters of state land in Krimovica in the municipality of Kotor. In return, the company would pay 1,2 million euros, or 1,93 euros per square meter, into the state budget.

In the lawsuit, which was published by MANS, it is stated that the intention of the company "Carinvest" is to, through litigation, "acquire land that until the engagement of the plaintiff (the company Carinvest) was completely neglected, unused and without any benefits for the state of Montenegro. .

The Tsarevićs further state in their lawsuit that from 2015 until today, they have repeatedly addressed state institutions and local government bodies, trying to regulate the status of the land they usurped, which they claim was "unused and forgotten by state authorities."

Tsarević's lawsuit against Montenegro was preceded by a meeting with officials of the line ministries of the 41st Government of Montenegro. According to the minutes document obtained by the MANS Research Center, on June 11, 2020, Tsarević, as a natural person in the building of the Government of Montenegro, met with Milutin Simović, then Vice President for Economic Policy and Financial System, Minister of Finance Darko Radunović, and to the representatives of the ministries of agriculture and urbanism, but also the protection of the property and legal interests of Montenegro.

The minutes state that the meeting was organized on the initiative of Tsarević, and that he rejected Simović's proposal to postpone the meeting because it coincided with the holding of the session of the Municipal Assembly (SO) of Budva.

On the very day he was negotiating with the then ministers, Tsarević was voted no-confidence at a session of the Budva Council of Ministers. A few days later, clashes between the then coalition led by Tsarević and the police began, during which he was arrested.

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