Money for illegal facilities in Krimovica<\/strong><\/p>\nIn mid-2017, through its programme of support to agricultural holdings, IPARD Like 2.2, the Ministry of Agriculture accepted to participate with 50 % of the funds in one of Carevi\u0107’s investments in the farm complex in Krimovica. At that time, Carevi\u0107 was promised around \u20ac52.000 as state participation for the construction of a mini-slaughterhouse and the purchase of equipment. According to the orders of the Paying Agency under the Ministry of Agriculture, obtained by the MANS Investigative Centre, Carinvest sent a request for payment of \u20ac 51.062,04 in early February, which was signed by the executive director of the company and the son of Budva Mayor, Milan Carevi\u0107. Finally, a payment was made to Carinvest’s account from the Paying Agency’s account in mid-June last year.<\/p>\n
In addition to this direct assistance for the construction of facilities in Krimovica, the Ministry of Agriculture continuously assisted the illegal agricultural holding of Carevi\u0107 from 2017 to 2019. This is confirmed by the analytical cards of the Ministry of Agriculture for the aforementioned period, where apart from the money for the mini-slaughterhouse, it can be seen that Carevi\u0107 was assisted with another \u20ac50 thousand in direct subsidies for production.<\/p>\n
MANS previously stated that Carevi\u0107 had registered his holding back in 2016 by reporting to the Ministry of Agriculture his own plots where no production is taking place today, while the entire farm complex was built on occupied state land.<\/p>\n
Last week, the Ministry of Agriculture rejected Carevi\u0107’s request to lease the land on which he built the farms, thus further confirming that the entire business in Krimovica was illegal. However, this was not an obstacle for this state body to support the Budva Mayor financially throughout the occupation.<\/p>\n
IDF loans<\/strong><\/p>\nIt is not just the Ministry of Agriculture that has assisted Carevi\u0107’s businesses, despite the fact that it has occupied the state property. While building the illegal agricultural complex in Krimovica on the state land, Marko Carevi\u0107 provided more loans from the Investment Development Fund (IDF) in support of his company Carinvest. First, in 2015, IDF approved \u20ac 1.2 million in support for refinancing loans, then received additional \u20ac 500.000 of direct loan the following year. IDF\u2019s support to Carevi\u0107 continued in 2018 when he was granted a loan of an additional \u20ac 500,000 for the acquisition of concrete pumps and asphalt machines.<\/p>\n
The Ministry of Finance and the cadastre knew about the occupation and remained silent.<\/p>\n
Data obtained by MANS show that for more than a year before MANS published the story, the state authorities in charge of managing and recording state property knew that Carevi\u0107 occupied half a million square meters in Krimovica and built over 6000m2<\/sup> of facilities without a building permit.<\/p>\nAt the end of November 2018, Carevi\u0107 addressed the Kotor cadastre with a request to register 11 illegally constructed facilities on the state land, with a total area of over 6000 m2<\/sup>. The Protector of Property and Legal Interests of Montenegro appealed against the decision of the cadastre, but the Ministry of Finance rejected the appeal and registered Carevi\u0107\u2019s illegal facilities on the state land.<\/p>\nAt the end of September 2019, Carevi\u0107 again addressed the Kotor cadastre, requesting that two smaller facilities, which he had built in the meantime, be registered on the state land \u2013 auxiliary facility and a power substation. The Protector appealed against this decision as well, but the Ministry of Finance also rejected that appeal and allowed Carevi\u0107 to register on state land.<\/p>\n
At the end of 2019, Carevi\u0107 addressed the Property Administration with a request to buy close to 300.000 m2<\/sup> of the state land in Krimovica, which was only part of what he had previously occupied. In early December 2019, the Property Administration addressed the Real Estate Administration with a request for estimation of the land value, but it is not known whether the Real Estate Administration has ever made that estimation.<\/p>\nIn the meantime, the Ministry of Agriculture answered and confirmed that the land lease would not happen, and that it was giving up its plan to announce a call for a lease of the Krimovica site.<\/p>\n
It is interesting that back in mid-2018, when he submitted an official request for legalization to the Kotor Secretariat for Urban Planning, Carevi\u0107 stated that he had a contract with the state to lease land on which illegal facilities are located.<\/p>\n
From all of the above it can be concluded that the Ministries of Agriculture and Finance, the Property Administration, the Real Estate Directorate and the Protector of Property and Legal Interests had full information on what was happening in Krimovica, while none of them notified the police or the State Prosecutor\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
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Dejan Milovac<\/p>\n
Investigative Centre<\/p>\n
MANS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the past two years, the Ministry of Agriculture has paid nearly \u20ac 100.000 to Carinvest, owned by the President of the Municipality of Budva, for subsidies for agricultural production and procurement of equipment, even though it is a farm built entirely on occupied state land and without a building permit. This is shown by<\/p>\n
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