Insight view

10 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE - INSIGHT VIEW
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In 1989, Salina was recognized as an internationally Important Bird Area (IBA)
With such an decision, the Council for Privatization plans to verify one of the largest robberies of
public property in the history of Montenegro. Decisions of the Constitutional Court, Line Ministry and
Council for Privatization show up to the extent public institutions are subjected to private interests.
Development of the plan document itself is the conflict of interests. Namely, through the Ministry,
the government confessed development of PPPN OP to the consortium of companies, including the
private company Republic Bureau for Urbanism and Projecting (RZUP), owned by Aco Đukanović.
If the protection of Ulcinj Salina is the primary goal of the Government, which has constantly been indicated
to the public, the question is: why does the draft of PPPN OP envisage probable development
of the touristic capacities of almost 1,500 beds on 70 hectares, and where this space is and why unanimous
standpoints and conclusions of Municipality Ulcinj have not been adopted for such a long time?
On lack of harmonization and disagreements within the Draft PPPN OP indicated recommendations
given in the document, Strategic Assessments of Impact: “Our recommendation is that these two localities
(Tivat Salina and Ulcinj Salina) should be excluded from urbanization projects because of
their specific habitat and specific diversity…”
The extent of criminal activities best describes information that the highest credit, or 3 million euros,
guaranteed by the public property was not even paid to “Bajo Sekulić” company, but was directly transferred
to the account of the company “Flash” in Podgorica, which owned part of the shares in Salina.
This credit was approved by Prva banka, which was represented in that job by Jelica Petričević, former
Deputy General Director and on behalf of “Flash,” the contract was signed by one of its founders Bećir
Perazić. “Flash” was founded by the company “Absolute” from Bar, jointly with the Prime Minister’s friend
Veselin Barović, Bojša Šotra, and Zijad Blekić. Beside Perazić, this company was founded by Vlatko
Aprcović, and Cayman offshore company “Balkan Investment Management Limited,” whose ownership
is unknown. According to data from the Centra Registry of Busines Entities, “Flash“ and “Absolute“ were
deleted, which makes the destiny of the land of Salina that is under mortgage even more uncertain.
Bearing in mind that this is related to 15 million square meters of national property at one of the most
attractive locations on the coast, there is so little space to doubt that Mićo Orlandić, former Director of
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