Photo: Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of BelgradeAlthough the court verdict states that the entire building at Knez Mihailova 33 is state property, the cadastre states that the owner of the two devices is "Jugoelektro", a failed company. Based on that, the Geodetic Institute made a decision in their favor. There is a danger that state property will be sold to powerful individuals, the Endowment says
Nikola Spasić's endowment is 101 years old, the oldest in our country, and there are quite clear indications that someone intends to sell a part of its building in Belgrade at Knez Mihailova 33, even though the building is state-owned.
Nikola Spasić, a great Serbian philanthropist, in his will from 1912 left property for his Endowment in the value of the Nobel Foundation's property at that time. Among the properties was a building at Knez Mihailova 33, where he lived for the rest of his life.
The property of the Endowment was nationalized in 1959 and given to the management of the municipality of Stari Grad, which gave the first and second floors at Knez Mihailova 33 for use and lease to "Jugoelektra".
The building is a cultural asset of great importance for the Republic of Serbia and, we will repeat, state property.
However, Vojin Đekić, manager of the Endowment, says for the "Vremena" portal, "On June 9, the Republic Geodetic Institute confiscated the state property of the Republic of Serbia in the building at Kneza Mihaila No. 33 (first and second floor) and transferred it to the private property of the company Jugoelektro".
Vojin Đekić emphasizes that "the document that Jugoelektro signed with the municipality of Stari Grad is also the only document that the company has regarding those two devices." It says that they have the right to use, not ownership."
And yet, when the entire space was returned to the Endowment through restitution, it was recorded in the cadastre that the owners of the first and second floors are the state and Jugoelektro.
"Of course, we immediately complained, but everything remained the same," says Vojin Đekić.
Thanks to that cadastre error, "2005. in 2007 and then in XNUMX, they tried to sell those two floors even though they don't own them, both times to pay off their debts."
The problem was solved in court.
"The final judgment of the First Municipal Court in 2007 in a lawsuit between the Republic of Serbia and the City Municipality of Stari Grad, whose property was threatened, against "Jugoelektro", established that the entire building at 33 Kneza Mihaila Street is state property of the Republic of Serbia."
The judgment also states that the land register and cadastre should record that "the right of ownership is in the state ownership of the entire subject building, and that the company Jugoelektro only has the right to use the first and second floors of the building, but not the right of ownership."
"But it wasn't like that," says Vojin Đekić. "Someone still does not want to enter the situation in the cadastre, which is determined by a final judgment, even though it is binding" and states that, based on such entry in the cadastre, "on June 9, the Republic Geodetic Institute issued a decision that the two floors are the private property of the company Jugoelektro ".
Đekić specifies that "it is about 2.092,46 m2 of business space, the market value of about 15.000.000 euros."
"The endowment has filed a lawsuit with the Administrative Court and requested that the final decision of the Republic Geodetic Institute be annulled," he says, adding that "there is a danger that the state property will be immediately sold to powerful individuals, without waiting for the completion of the process of the lawsuit with the Administrative Court."
"Jugoelektro" has one employee, and has been blocked for five years. The ATPR says that the owners of "Jugoelektra" are UTP Trgovina from Kruševac, owned by Human Art, and Euro KB from Belgrade.
Vojin Đekić says that the Cabinet of President Vučić, Prime Minister Ana Brnabić, the Directorate for Property, the Agency for Restitution and the Ministry of Culture wrote about everything, but no one spoke up.
Nikola Spasić, the founder of the Foundation, in his will expressly forbade any alienation or sale of the property he gave to the Foundation, and ordered that the real estate be leased at market conditions and that hospitals, other buildings and donations be made from that income.
Let's mention some facts about how the Endowment uses the property entrusted to it: it built the City Hospital in Belgrade, the Hospital in Kumanovo, in Krupnje, the Home for the Infirm in Knjaževac, the Spasić Pavilion at the Old Fair... Over the last 15 years, the Endowment has bought and donated medical equipment and devices to health institutions in the value of over 845.000 euros, for the last 28 years it has been awarding the best students of each year of study and graduated students of the Medical and of the Faculty of Agriculture with a plaque and a monetary award, which last year amounted to 40.000 dinars. A total of 305 students were awarded.
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