Verdict for Krimovica at the end of February

Although the former president of the Municipality of Budva is a businessman Marko Bato Carevic and his son Milan did not come to the main trial, the judge of the Basic Court in Kotor Veljko Bulatović He held a hearing in the process that the Basic State Prosecutor's Office is conducting before that court against the two and their company "Carinvest" due to the usurpation of state property in the village of Krimovice in Grbalje.

As "Vijesti" was told, all the evidence was presented at the trial and the prosecution's proposal was accepted to request information from the Ministry of Justice as to whether the expert who testified in the case Miladin Čepić on the list of court experts.

"The next hearing is scheduled for February 26, when it will be concluded, so that case is also over," "Vijesti" was told.

At the main trial, both sides will give closing arguments, after which the judge is expected to issue a first-instance verdict.

At the previous hearing, the Protector of Property Legal Interests on behalf of the State of Montenegro joined the criminal prosecution of Tsarević, and made a property-legal request to return the land to its original state.

At the end of August last year, the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Kotor submitted an indictment to the 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 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 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, which they claim was "unused and forgotten by the state authorities".

Tsarević's lawsuit against Montenegro was preceded by a meeting with officials of line ministries of the 41st Government of Montenegro. According to the record document obtained by the MANS Research Center, on June 11, 2020, as a natural person, in the building of the Government of Montenegro, Tsarević met with Milutin Simović, then Vice President for Economic Policy and Financial System, Minister of Finance Darko Radunović, and representatives of the Ministries of Agriculture and Urban Planning, as well as the Protector of 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 Budva Municipal Assembly (SO) session.

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.