The Municipality of Budva will initiate criminal proceedings and the eviction of eight municipal apartments in the Budva settlement of Seoca nad Jaza, which are suspected to have been used and rented by a foreign citizen for years.
Secretary for the protection of property of the Municipality Vlado Ivanovic confirmed to "Vijesta" that representatives of the Municipality, together with members of the Budva Security Department, went to the scene at the end of August and found that the apartments were being used by other people.
"We are waiting for the report from the scene in order to initiate the appropriate proceedings against those responsible, and to initiate the eviction procedure from the municipal apartments", stated Ivanovic.
The editorial office of "Vijesti" received a letter stating that these apartments have been used by a foreign citizen for three years. The same letter was delivered to the Municipality, which, as "Vijesti" was told, determined that the allegations were true, and ordered to go to the scene.
In a letter from the end of August, the Secretariat for Communal and Housing Affairs requested that an authorized official of the Secretariat for Property Protection go to the site with the officers of the Security Department and establish the identity of the persons staying in the apartments owned by the Municipality of Budva.
"On the basis of the unpaid obligations from the contract on compensation for communal equipment of construction land (utilities dated November 11, 2014 and annex dated May 5, 2016, the Municipality of Budva registered as the owner of parts of the building entered in the cadastral records on plot 368 KO Prijevor I" , it is written in a letter from the Secretariat for Communal Housing Affairs, into which "Vijesti" had access, and on the basis of which the police inspector was hired.
The municipality became the owner of eight apartments of 76, 61,77, 77, 59, 78, 78, 59 and XNUMX square meters.
On August 27, representatives of the Municipality and the police were in the Seoce settlement, and an official report should be submitted soon in order to initiate both criminal proceedings and the eviction of the apartments, bearing in mind that there are people found in them.
The letter mentions that at the time the apartments were taken over, eight years ago, they were in a state of "grey phase". Then there is the foreign company that owed the utilities and its executive director JK hired a local company that completed the furnishing of the apartments, but was never paid for the work. The firm has sued the foreign company and filed multiple criminal charges, as noted, and proceedings are ongoing. A foreign citizen has been renting out six municipal apartments, eight of them, for the past three years, and with the money from the rental, he partially pays the municipal debt to the Municipality.
The procedure for the usurpation of municipal apartments was initiated three years ago by the Secretariat for Property Protection, when he was in charge of it Đorđe Zenović. What the Municipality has in its possession will be known at the beginning of next year, by which time the property inventory should be completed by the municipal commission formed by the vice president of the Municipality at the beginning of July. Jasna Dokić.
"A Commission is being formed whose task is to collect, process and record all immovable property owned by the Municipality of Budva," reads the decision signed by Dokić.
In addition to Dokić, members of the Commission include the main administrator Nevenka Božović Jovović, chief city architect Jelena Lazic, Acting Secretary for Property Protection Vlado Ivanović, Acting Secretary for Communal Housing Affairs Srdjan Gregović, head of the Protection and Rescue Service Dragan Božović, Acting Secretary for Local Self-Government Darko Celebic, Acting Secretary for Investments Joko Popovic and certified surveyor of the Secretariat for Property Protection Miladin Čepić. The Secretary of the Commission is Milena Perović.
"The task of the members of the Commission is to, within their competences, personally and through the services they lead, take over all actions and activities related to the collection, processing and recording of data for the purpose of an accurate inventory of immovable property in the municipality of Budva, namely residential buildings and residential premises, commercial buildings and commercial premises , residential facilities, apartments for official purposes and other construction facilities used by authorities to perform their functions, land (urbanized, non-urbanized, agricultural, green areas), as well as other assets," the decision states.
The local administration dealt with the list of assets five years ago, when he was the then first vice president of the Municipality Vladimir Bulatović presented the first preliminary property card of the Municipality.
As Bulatović told "Vijesta" at the time, the Municipality of Budva is the owner or co-owner of 49,4 million square meters of land and 64.902 square meters of commercial and residential space in the territory from Jaz to Buljarica. The minimum estimated value of that property, as announced at the time, was about 270 million euros, if the square of land is counted at six euros, and residential and commercial space at 300 euros.
"Realistically, the value of the property is several times higher and exceeds one billion euros," Bulatović told "Vijesti" at the time.
There was a proposal to engage a law office specializing in property-legal relations, whose task was to solve all the problems that were identified. The proposal was also to form a municipal directorate for property, which would help the local administration to solve all accumulated problems related to property and make good records.
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