The Secretariat for Property Protection of the Municipality of Budva sent an urgent message to the new Minister of Spatial Planning, Urbanism and State Property Janko Odović asking to inform the local administration whether that government department intends to act on the decision of the Urban and Construction Inspection and demolish the illegally built buildings on the island of Sveti Nikola (Školj), owned by the company "Global TS Montenegro" of the former Thai prime minister, naturalized Montenegrin and billionaire Taksin Shinawatra.
Secretary for Asset Protection Đorđe Zenović, in the letter that "Vijesti" had access to, reminds Odović that he sent an identical letter to the former minister back in April Ani Novaković Đurović, but that she did not answer them.
In April, Zenović sent a letter to Novaković Đurović at a time when that government department was ordered to remove all wild objects, and then the demolition of two illegal houses in Nikšić's Kočani settlement of the former state president was announced. Milo Đukanović. Now the letter has been forwarded to Odović, at the time when the demolition of the building in Podgorica is announced.
Last year, the urban planning and construction inspection issued a decision on the demolition of stone buildings in Školje.
"First of all, on behalf of the Secretariat for Property Protection of the Municipality of Budva, I would like to offer absolute support to you personally and to the Ministry you manage in order to oppose the illegal construction and removal from the area of all illegal buildings for which the legal procedure has been carried out and which have a decision on demolition. I am sending an urgent request to act on our letter that we sent back in April to your predecessor, Minister Ana Novaković Đurović," said Zenović.
As he stated, it is a request that the line ministry inform the Secretariat for Property Protection about the status and circumstances related to the demolition of illegal buildings on the island of Sveti Nikola.
"According to the information that is available to us, the Urban Planning and Building Inspection issued a decision on the demolition of the mentioned buildings in 2022, but to this day we do not know whether anything related to their demolition has already been undertaken, and if not, whether you intend to act according to solution and to deprive this tourist and natural attraction of wild buildings", asked Zenović.
Shinawatra is currently serving an eight-year prison sentence for abuse of power and conflict of interest after returning to Thailand in August from a XNUMX-year self-imposed exile.
Already last year in June, "Global TS Montenegro" submitted, for the third time in a row, a request for legalization of illegal buildings to the Secretariat for Urban Planning. It is about illegal building number one under construction, ground floor and first floor gross building area of 726 square meters and building number two under construction, ground floor and two floors of gross building area of 133 square meters.
After the Secretariat for Urbanism and Sustainable Development in February of last year rejected the request for the legalization of about 350 square meters of wildly built building at, as the locals call it, the School, the company Global TS Montenegro submitted new requests in mid-March of last year in which it stated the existence of two buildings - one of 726 square meters gross area and 133 square meters long.
The departmental secretariat asked to supplement the request, and left a deadline of 30 days for them to submit the missing documents. After that deadline expired, the company was given a new extension to submit a report with the gross surface areas of the buildings by floor, photos of all the facades of the illegal building, proof of the registration of the existing building in the cadastral records...
The company of the richest Montenegrin, whose wealth according to Forbes is estimated at more than one billion euros, in April 2017 concluded a sales contract with the Podgorica company "San investments", which is behind the controversial Serbian businessman. Stanko Subotic Cane, thus becoming the owner of 37 square meters of land on the island of Sveti Nikola, on which stone single-story buildings had already been built without permission. Šinavatra paid 24 million euros for that valuable piece of the largest Montenegrin island.
The spatial plan for a special purpose on the entire island envisages the urbanization of the island - the construction of hotel facilities with a total of 500 beds, as well as a marina with 50 berths, precisely on the part owned by "Global TS Montenegro".
Shinawatra's company, which owns a quarter of the island, has been insisting and submitting requests to the relevant ministry for years to carry out detailed planning of the area on the island. That company wants to comply with the plans and laws of Montenegro in order to realize its project.
Wild objects were built by Đorđević
The wild buildings on the island were not built by Šinavatra, but by the previous owner, a Belgrade businessman, former JUL politician. Nenad Djordjevic, who sold an attractive part of the island to Subotica in 2007.
He explained the sale by the obstruction of state authorities, which did not allow him to realize his ambitious plans. Đorđević, who was the owner of as many as three attractive properties in Budva, the Hotel "Admiral" on the boulevard, the old building of the "Yugoslavian River Shipping" near the Old Town, and the southeastern part of the island, started construction on Školje, as the locals call it, without permission. This was thwarted by the state, and in the summer of 2002, an inspection accompanied by the police demolished part of the building with dynamite. This revolted Đorđević, who had already wildly built a large beach, connected Školj with Školjić, a small island, thereby cutting off the waterway and sea currents (two years ago the waterway was breached again), built a large pontoon, and several ground stone houses. He even populated the island with deer and other game, trying to turn it into a nature reserve and luxury tourist resort. In 2007, Đorđević sold the island to Subotic's company for 20 million euros. Cane took a loan from Prva banka for the purchase. In 2009, Šinavatra received a Montenegrin passport through a summary procedure, although at that time he was being prosecuted in his native country for corruption.
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