The inspection ordered demolition in June 2025: Oruči continued to build even after the ban

Although the Urban Planning and Construction Inspection issued a decision last June to demolish an illegally constructed building on state land in the Utjeha - Kunje settlement in Bar and imposed a construction ban on three other locations within the same plot, the situation on the ground shows that the works continued even after that, until last month.

The editorial team is from the Ministry of Spatial Planning, Urbanism and State Property, headed by Slaven Radunović, said that the decision to demolish one building was made back in June 2025, answering questions about their actions in the case of illegal construction on state land in that part of Bar.

As "Vijesti" wrote last week, a citizen of Kosovo Naim Oruci (57) managed to build two buildings on state land in the Utjeha - Kunje settlement and clear the forest to the sea. He has managed to do this in the last three years, after the building he built on that state land was demolished, only this time he "seized" two state plots - 4107/23 and 4107/1 in the Cadastral Municipality of Kunje.

Without a construction report or documentation, on illegally occupied state land, extending to the seashore, he cleared the forest, partially leveled the terrain and demolished the rocky shore, creating cascades on the slope to the sea, approximately 600 meters long and 50 meters wide.

The police also said that they suspected that the suspect, by carrying out all the aforementioned works on state land without the appropriate permits and documentation, had gained an illegal material gain of around three million euros, to the detriment of the Montenegrin budget based on unpaid duties.

Radunović's ministry told "Vijesti" that during June 2025, an inspection was carried out of the facility that was being built on cadastral plot 4107/1 KO Kunje.

"During the inspection procedure, a decision was made to demolish the building in question, while the Police Directorate was promptly informed that the subject of the inspection was building a building on a state plot without legally required documentation, and that he had violated the official seal and continued building the building despite the construction ban imposed by the decision," the department said.

Also, in the process of conducting an inspection on state plot 4107/1 KO Kunje, after establishing the factual situation on the ground, as they announced, construction ban measures were also adopted for structures on three more locations within the given plot - wide excavation earthworks began at two locations, while construction work on the formwork of the foundation slab began at the third location.

"The administrative procedure will continue against the unknown person in accordance with the law. In the coming period, in accordance with the work dynamics and established priorities, the construction inspection will continue to control the construction of buildings in order to combat illegal construction," the ministry said when asked when the building will be demolished.

Although the inspection team visited the site last June and banned further construction, locals provided "Vijesti" with photos and videos showing that construction and work on state-owned land and in the coastal forest continued for almost a year after that.

The last video showing machines actively working in the state's coastal zone was recorded in March of this year. This raises the question of how it is possible that someone could have built megalomaniac structures on state land for three years, a year after state institutions banned it?

The fact that construction has been going on on state property for three years is made even more alarming by the fact that the suspect, a citizen of Kosovo, has done so before, on the same land.

In April 2024, the Ministry of Ecology, Spatial Planning and Urbanism acted on a decision to demolish the building on cadastral plot 4107/1 KO Kunje because it was built without a construction registration and documentation.

According to the Ministry's decision from March 2023, which "Vijesti" has access to, it states that Oruči built the ground floor of a residential building measuring approximately 550 square meters and that it was built after the urban planning and construction inspector banned his construction in December 2022.

The same decision shows that Oruçi then tried to legalize the facility he built on state property. This was one of the arguments his lawyer, Arben Hodzic, stated in an appeal he filed on behalf of a Kosovo citizen against the demolition decision from three years ago.

The Ministry's decision states that he initiated the legalization procedure, of which there is evidence in the case files, but that, as it says, this could not have influenced the decision-making of the acting inspector, "taking into account the specific circumstances of the administrative matter in question."

"The complainant (Oruči) carried out construction work on the building during the period of validity of the Law on Spatial Planning and Construction of Buildings, which means that the legal provisions on legalization, which apply to buildings whose construction has been completed, i.e. to constructed buildings, do not apply to the building in question," states the Ministry's decision in which the appeal against the demolition decision was received.

Lawyer Hodžić did not respond to a journalist's question about Oručija's current and previous projects, as well as how, among other things, he was able to begin and develop work on a plot of land where a building he financed was demolished just a few years ago.