Photo: InstagramThe state did not use its right of pre-emption and bought the Genex tower for 835 million dinars - it was bought by Aleksandar Kajmaković for 2,4 billion dinars. However, this does not mean that the state will not decide to buy the Tower from him, of course at this higher price
"Something very interesting has happened, and it's not over yet," Božidar Stavrić, president of the Genex Tower Tenants' Assembly, commented on the result of today's auction of a part of the Genex Tower in Belgrade, for the "Vremena" portal.
He explains his assessment by the fact that the Tower was sold for a higher price than the initial price, and to this day the highest price at the first auction, as well as the fact that the state has not yet announced whether it will exercise the right of first refusal and buy back the part of the Tower that was just sold from Alexander Kajmaković, that is, from his company Eureka bar, which auctioned the highest price today.
Let us explain.
The third auction of part of the Genex tower was held today. It took place very violently, with the displeasure of those present, the most prominent of whom was MP and environmental activist Aleksandar Jovanović Ćuta, but in the end it was successfully completed. Successful, in the sense that the auction was completed, that the Tower was sold.
Seven buyers bid, and the winner was the aforementioned Aleksandar Kajmaković, who offered 2,4 billion dinars, i.e. slightly more than 20 million euros.
Unofficially, other interested buyers were NR Development, Singidunum University, Zvonko Gobeljić, Tardycon Holding Limited, Summers, and Exeone.
Today's starting price was 834,6 million dinars. 28 business premises with an area of 14.943 square meters are offered for sale, while the areas between the 27th and 37th floors have an area of more than 1.450 square meters. The sales unit also includes a garage with a total area of 9.023 square meters, as well as ten garages with an area of 6.445 square meters.
Starting price on the second offer, advertised in July, was 1,46 billion dinars, while in May the price was two billion dinars. Both bids were unsuccessful because no one was interested in buying the Tower at the offered prices. "Today, however, it was not too much for Alerksandr Kajmaković to pay a higher price than the price that was set for the first auction," points out Božidar Stavrić.
Božidar Stavrić says that the first offered amount below this was about 900 million dinars.
The state, which has the right of pre-emption, did not bid today "which does not mean that it will not later invoke its right to buy Genex from Kajmaković", Stavrić expects, "of course at the price he bid today". He assumes that the state has a justification for not using the opportunity to spend only as much as was requested at the initial price.
He adds that the state has never responded to the calls of the Tenants' Assembly, so it is not known how they evaluate their proposals to Turn Genex into a student dormitory or a cultural and scientific space.
Kajmaković's company Eureka bar was founded in 2011 and deals with the preparation and serving of drinks. He is the 2020% owner, and the legal representative is Marko Milovanović. At the end of 70, the company, for which the last available financial report was published at APR, had 49 employees and a net profit of XNUMX million dinars.
The media remind that Aleksandar Kajmaković is the owner of numerous well-known restaurants in Belgrade - Bottega, Temperament, La Fayette nightclub, he is the owner of the Casino hotel, the Port raft, then the Caffe Theater, formerly Kod Konja, in Skadarlija he owns the restaurants Three Hats, Dva Goluba and Zlatni Bakal , the media say that he is the owner of exclusive apartments and luxury cars.
Kajmaković became known to the public six years ago when Željko Rutović shot and wounded Predrag Ranković Peconi in the Prague hotel. As Nova.rs writes, the reason for the shooting was the purchase of the restaurant "Venecija" in Zemun. Pecconi wanted to take Venice, and the purchase was supposed to go through Kajmaković.
In February 2022, he was also arrested for collaborating with Veljko Belivuk. He told the police about his business relations with Belivuk, his acquaintance with Slaviš Kokez, as well as the communication he had with Dijana Hrkalović, the former state secretary in the MUP. In 2002, a bomb was planted in his Mercedes in Budva, but he survived.
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