SPLIT'S MARJAN AFFAIR

The state ignored the expert's finding on the bills for the construction of the former Kerum pride: 12 million euros more than the actual value of the works shown VLADIMIR URUKALO WRITES September 27, 2020 - 11:29 12266638 Joško Ponoš / Illustration / Cropix Facebook Twitter Print The Split County State's Attorney's Office has launched investigations into the construction and financial skills requested, obtained and presented to creditors four years ago by Zoran Miletić, the then bankruptcy trustee of Adriatic, which until recently operated the Marjan Hotel. Back in June 2016, Slobodna Dalmacija wrote about the results of these reports, according to which the difference between the construction expert's estimate of the work done on the Marjan Hotel and the invoices issued was almost 12 million euros, or 90 million and 629 thousand kunas. - In relation to the inquiry of September 22, 2020, from the content of which it follows that you are requesting information on the actions of the County State's Attorney's Office in Split regarding the expertise conducted in the bankruptcy proceedings of "Adriatic" dd, I point out that the Split County State Attorney's Office -Dalmatian conducts surveys. The provision of Article 206, item f. The Criminal Procedure Code stipulates that conduct during the investigation is secret, and the body conducting the investigation may, when required by the public interest, inform the public about the course of the investigation in the manner prescribed by a special law - Rene Laura , spokeswoman for the County State's Attorney's Office , told us on Thursday . SUSPICIONS She could not answer us officially, of course, for secrecy, when these investigations were launched. However, we learn from reliable sources that the Deputy County State's Attorney, who was in charge of the case, ordered the police to conduct an investigation only after Slobodna Dalmacija asked, ie two days ago! So what was done for four years ?! It should be reminded that the then bankruptcy trustee Miletić ordered construction and financial expertise in July 2015, according to the decision of the Creditors' Assembly. Vladimir Krklec , a permanent court expert for bookkeeping and financial affairs, completed the work in February 2016 and, among other things, identified some "suspicious" conclusions concerning the Sapor company (then owned by Kerum's nephew Igor Sapunar ), which formerly called "Kerum Ing" and which was the main contractor for the hotel. 14756754 SPLIT SUKOB POD BOROVIMA Opara udario kontru Kerumu: jednim potpisom zabranio vožnju kroz Marjan prema Benama! Pročitaj više 14750348 SPLIT SKUPO GA KOŠTAO SMS Kerum nepravomoćno osuđen zbog prijetnje Ivoševiću, prepao se da možda neće moći na izbore. No presuda za prijetnju ipak ga neće spriječiti Pročitaj više The financial expert determined that "according to the findings of the construction expert and a comparison with the submitted and certified situations, the value of the performed works does not correspond to the value of the pledged rights to the real estate Hotel Marjan". According to the issued invoices recorded in the business books of "Sapor", the turnover with "Adriatic" was 262 million kuna, of which almost 48 million refers to VAT, and the value of the performed works is 28 million and 121 thousand euros, or 214 million and 284 thousand kuna. image Željko Kerum Jakov Prkić / Archive / Cropix However, according to the construction expert, the value of the performed works is 16 million and 227 thousand euros, or 123 million and 655 thousand kunas. Thus, the difference between the construction expert's assessment of the value of the work actually performed and the invoices issued is almost EUR 12 million, or HRK 90 million and 629 thousand, respectively. The said expertise was then attached to the file of the Commercial Court, but the State Attorney's Office of Split did not officially receive it then, in June, when the article was published in the SD. Namely, in this bankruptcy proceedings, the State Attorney's Office represented the state that is the creditor in the first payment order for HRK 3,531,856.51 (health and pension insurance liabilities) and in the general payment order for HRK 825,095.72 (VAT). The State Attorney's Office then replied that "the fact that the Commercial Court in Split issued a decision on the creditors' assembly for July 14, 2016, at which creditors will be informed of the findings and opinion of the construction and financial-accounting expert to be published on the court's e-bulletin board ". BANKRUPTCY Therefore, the state, ie the State Attorney's Office, was already acquainted with the expertise in July of that year, as one of the creditors, after the Assembly. And instead of urgently starting to check the validity of such conclusions and to determine whether the prices of works were really "inflated" and in that way millions of euros were extracted, the state decided to "hibernate" and not interfere in it on the principle "when the media is quiet noise, everything will be forgotten ". In the meantime, the company "Sapor" doo went bankrupt, and his claim, a loan from Kreditna banka Zagreb (HRK 50 million approved in 2009 to the company "Sapor" doo with the pledge of the hotel "Marjan", and the co-debtors were "Adriatic" (dd and Kerum and the guarantor Igor Sapunar), was taken over by the company "Adria Resort", owned by the "Adris Group". It was they who became the new owners of Kerum’s former pride. We should also mention that recently the media wrote that a group of workers of the bankrupt company "Adriatic" dd filed a criminal complaint with USKOK in May of the new year, in which, among other things, Miletić's