The Administration of Local Public Revenues of the Municipality of Budva has blocked an unfinished five-story building in the Gospoština neighborhood, owned by the former leader of the Budva DPS and the former head of parliament Bor Lazović, due to the accumulated tax debt of 35 thousand euros.
This is also confirmed by the property sheet that "Vijesti" had access to.
"Mortgage in the total amount of EUR 35.155,17 in favor of the Municipality of Budva - decision on the securing of the tax claim of the Administration of Local Public Revenues", it is written in the cadastral records.
It is about a building next to the Adriatic highway at the exit from Budva, which is mortgaged by the current president of the Basketball Association of Montenegro, a former basketball player Nikola Pekovic. Best man and business partner Duško Sarić In 2017, he registered a mortgage on around 2.000 square meters of unfinished commercial and residential space, in the amount of two and a half million euros.
According to the cadastral records of the Real Estate Administration, Peković registered a mortgage in April 2017 on a business space in the basement of 325 square meters, and apartments from the first to the fifth floor.
"Mortgage of the first order in the amount of 2.500.000 euros in favor of Nikola Peković from Podgorica as the mortgage creditor, the property of Bor Lazović with a ban on the alienation and encumbrance of the immovable property that is the subject of the mortgage without the written consent of the mortgage creditor and with a record of express consent to execution without delay after maturity receivables", it is still written as a burden on Lazović's real estate.
Lazović previously told "Vijesti" that it was a joint business of building a building in Gospoština.
Peković, in the same year that he blocked Lazović's property, bought the luxury hotel "Mediteran" in Vičići, which until then was owned by the Budva company "Maestraltours", a businessman Blaž Dedić.
Lazović apparently built the building without a permit, because two and a half years ago he submitted a request for its legalization
In the request, the former key man of the local DPS stated that it is about two buildings, one of 2.818 square meters of gross area, with a ground floor and five floors, and the other of 1.405 square meters.
The buildings are roughly finished and, as it says, he does not pay real estate tax for them. Upon inspection of the real estate deed, it is noted that the building was built without a building permit, and that Lazović occupied 15 square meters of the adjacent plot, owned by the Municipality of Budva.
For years, the local revenue administration provides half of Budva's budget, almost 20 million euros from tax collection, of which real estate tax is the city's most important income.
For those who fail to pay, the Administration blocks the account through the Central Bank, which applies to the collection of debt from legal entities, while the tax debt of citizens is collected by entering a mortgage on real estate in the cadastral records of the Administration for Cadastre and State Property, which insures the Municipality that the obligation will be settled.
"Vijesti" has repeatedly announced that the Administration of Local Public Revenue has been blocking the property of all those who do not pay their debts for years without any selection, so large land complexes in the hinterland of Kamenovo, the Adriatic Fair in Budva, the land above Mogren Beach, and hotel complexes, such as "Asa" in Perazića Dol. Mortgages were also registered on the real estate of people who are at the head of drug clans, who are tax debtors.
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