Duško Šarić left the hotel business

Hotel complex "Mediteran" is owned by the company "Spencer & Hill", former basketball player Nikola Peković...

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They got married in 2019: Peković and Šarić, Photo: Savo Prelević
They got married in 2019: Peković and Šarić, Photo: Savo Prelević
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Pljevljak Dusko Saric he formally left the hotel business after retiring in February of this year from the company "Spencer & Hill Team", which manages the "Mediteran" hotel complex in Vičići.

Duško is his own brother Darko Sarić, an alleged Balkan drug lord, and since September 2019 he became a partner of the best man - a former basketball player Nikola Peković, and the two of them each had half of the founding capital in that company.

Hotel Mediteran, in the background animations of the project they intended to work on
Hotel Mediteran, in the background animations of the project they intended to work onphoto: Vuk Lajović

That he left the business, "Vijesti" was convinced by looking at the Central Register of Business Entities, where again one hundred percent of the founding capital is owned by Peković, the current president of the Basketball Association of Montenegro, as he was when he founded the companies.

The hotel complex "Mediteran" is owned by the company "Spencer & Hill", which is owned by Peković.

In previous years, the godfathers successfully managed "Mediterranean" through the company, as evidenced by the income statements presented in the financial statements that were duly submitted to the Revenue and Customs Administration.

Already in the first year of joint business, the godfathers earned 737 thousand euros from the management of the "Mediteran" hotel in Vičići, in 2021 the company had a positive result of 309 thousand euros, while last year it was also in the plus of 525 thousand euros.

The company's assets amount to 4,3 million euros.

In 2017, Peković through his company "Spencer & Hill" bought "Mediteran" for eight and a half million euros. Previously, he became the owner of two of the most popular discotheques in Montenegro - Budva's "Top Hill" and Kotor's "Maximus", which, by his own admission, he bought after the bankruptcy of the companies that managed them.

Peković and Šarić had plans to reconstruct the "Mediterranean", but also to build a five-star hotel on the site of the aqua park and garage within the hotel complex.

Back in August 2019, Peković's company submitted a request and attached an amended conceptual solution, after the Office of the Chief Architect of Budva refused to issue approval for three towers of 11 and 15 floors each, which were supposed to rise along the Jadranska magistrala itself, between " Mediterranean" and "Splendid". The company reduced its capacity by a fifth, so the future hotel was supposed to have nine floors in two buildings.

And while they were waiting to get approval, and the Municipality, for its part, was silent about the fact that it approves the conceptual solution, the decision of the Government of Montenegro introduced a moratorium on the planning document, the Detailed Urban Plan "Bečići", which prohibited construction. After the moratorium was lifted last October, no decision was made on the request.

Given that it is a building larger than 3.000 square meters, the chief state architect now has the authority to grant consent.

The state temporarily seized the property of Darko Šarić

At the end of January, as "Vijesti" announced at the time, the property of members of Darko Šarić's family in Montenegro was temporarily confiscated, due to the suspicion that it was acquired through criminal activity.

This was done by the local judicial authorities at the request of colleagues from Serbia in the case against the alleged Balkan drug boss and his crew - for aggravated murder, creation of a criminal organization, drug smuggling, illegal possession of weapons, causing general danger, abuse of official position...

Judge Suzana Mugoša issued a decision on the temporary confiscation of property worth millions.

Saric was arrested in April last year in Belgrade, a few months after he was released to defend himself in a court case for cocaine smuggling.

He is also accused of organizing international drug smuggling, murders of associates and rivals from another clan, and intimidation of witnesses in the proceedings against him for money laundering and smuggling 5,7 tons of cocaine from the pre-trial prison, via the encrypted Sky phone application. from South America to Western Europe during 2008 and 2009.

Acting on the petition of colleagues from Serbia, the High Court, at the request of the Montenegrin Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT), passed a temporary measure prohibiting the disposal and use of real estate owned by his daughter Nikolina Šarić, brother Duško Šarić and sister Danijela Šarić.

This was done on the basis of the Law on Confiscation of Property Gains from Criminal Activity.

In the records of the Administration for Cadastre and State Property, a ban on the disposal and use of these immovable properties was entered on January 11.

Duško Šarić's decision on January 11 blocked a dozen business premises with an area of ​​about 700 square meters, the yard of a commercial building, a family residential building with an area of ​​61 square meters, a non-residential area with an area of ​​49 square meters, a studio apartment of the same area, two rooms...

The blockade was also placed on a yard with an area of ​​423 square meters, a barren plot of land with an area of ​​384 square meters, then also on a yard with an area of ​​136 square meters, a family building in which there are business and living spaces, a field of 422 square meters...

By the court's decision, the property registered to the company "Level ing" was blocked - a field of 481 square meters, a meadow of 4.495 square meters, barren land of 37 square meters, business buildings in the private sector of 478 square meters and an auxiliary building of 43 square meters, as well as a yard of 289 square meters.

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