Basic State Prosecution Office in Kotor (BSPO) is investigating whether the company “Carinvest” owned by the family of the mayor of Budva, Marko Carević, illegally built a facility of 600-square-meter in the base on a plot in Krimovica.
“Based on the report of the Urban and Construction Inspectorate, a case was opened in the Basic State Prosecutor’s Office in Kotor against the legal entity ‘C.’ LLC from Kotor and the responsible person in the legal entity for the crime of building without application and documentation for construction under Article 326a of the Criminal Code of Montenegro. The case is in the inquest phase and after the decision is made, the public will be informed about it in a timely manner”, BSPO Kotor told “Vijesti”.
Facility of 30×20 meters in the base photo: MANS
On September 24 last year, Urban and Construction Inspectorate filed a criminal complaint against BSPO Kotor against the company “Carinvest” and the responsible person in that company, Milan Carević, after they were informed about illegal construction by the Network for Affirmation of NGO Sector (MANS) at the end of July 2021.
The Director of the MANS Investigative Centre, Dejan Milovac, told “Vijesti” that “the reaction of the competent inspectorate, although correct, was entirely overdue”.
”…Because Carević was allowed to usurp the land first, and then to build on it. Such behaviour is a direct consequence of the continuous policy of criminality, the benefits of which Carević has enjoyed for years and which enable him to get rich unhinderedly at the expense of the public interest”, Milovac said.
The inspection states in the decision that the company ‘Carinvest’ is prohibited from building the facility of AS construction, with three above-ground floors, the dimensions approx. 30 times 20 meters at the base… because it is being built without building application and/or documentation from Article 91 of the Law on Spatial Planning and Construction of Structures”.
“The facility was found in the grey phase of works, there was construction material on the construction site, while no construction works were performed at the time of inspection. Mr. Milan Carević, Executive Director of the company ‘Carinvest’, was on the spot, who stated that it was an auxiliary facility, i.e. a facility of general interest for rural development, and that the local self-government is responsible for it… The subject of supervision is given a deadline to make a statement regarding the facts determined by the minutes in the premises of the Ministry of Ecology and Spatial Planning, i.e. to submit documentation in order to prove his claim that it is a facility of local general interest”, the decision of the inspectorate reads.
The inspectorate also states that Milan Carević submitted the documentation, which “the acting inspector took into account”.
”…But his position is that the facility in question, given that there is no decision of the Municipal Assembly that would determine the location as a location for local facilities of general interest, is under the jurisdiction of the Urban and Development Inspectorate, and that it is necessary to submit a construction application along with documentation pursuant to Article 91 of the Law on Spatial Planning and Construction of Structures. According to Article 67 of the Law, the construction of facilities implies performing of works (preparatory works, works on the construction of building structures, civil engineering works…)”, it is explained in the decision, which prohibited the construction of facilities and filed criminal charges to the BSPO Kotor.
Milovac points out that “the case of Carević’s usurpation of state property and illegal construction has been in the public spotlight for several years, and it is devastating that the competent inspections decided to react only upon the initiative of MANS, and not independently and ex officio, as required by the law.”
“Unfortunately, this is a clear indication that the disastrous practice of the previous regime has never left the state institutions, and that a formal change of government has not brought about the much-needed reforms in this area. This continues to send a message to the public that, although the actors have changed, the ‘rules of the game’ have remained the same, and the president of the Municipality of Budva, Marko Carević, obviously knows how to secure allies in every government”, Milovac concluded.
It is devastating that the new government managed to “normalize” the existence of so-called tycoons close to the authorities and continues to derogate any efforts to recover this society from nepotism, clientelism and severe corruption. “The example of Marko Carević and his greed alone is enough to conclude that we have received ‘replacements, not changes’ in this area”, Dejan Milovac (MANS) says.
Source: Vijesti
