Ilija Dević

I signed the contract with the City of Novi Sad for the construction of the new intercity bus station based on the General Urban Plan. I completed the investment, but the City of Novi Sad did not fulfill its contractual obligation.

Evidence: Contract with the City of Novi Sad, construction and occupancy permits.

Court decisions are expected:

In the lawsuit I have filed, I expect the court's decisions to be in line with the existing case law in this matter. Namely, the Supreme Court of Cassation has already ruled once that the City caused damage to ATP "Vojvodina" for one contractual period, resulting in four million euros being paid from the budget of Novi Sad.

The lawsuit awaiting a decision pertains to the remaining contractual period until 2021.

REVISION 1 before the Supreme Court of Cassation

REVISION 2 before the Supreme Court of Cassation

CONSTITUTIONAL APPEAL OF ILIJA DEVIĆ REGARDING THE ATP VOJVODINA INVESTMENT”

ATTACHMENT No.1 , ATTACHMENT No.2 , ATTACHMENT No.3 , ATTACHMENT No.4

I accumulated my capital over more than forty years in the former Yugoslavia. In that large country, where the rules of the game were known, I was among the top five entrepreneurs in small businesses. Later, I had small, medium, and then large enterprises. I did not bring my money from tax havens, nor did I acquire it through privileges or political connections. I have never been equated, even colloquially, with tycoons or war profiteers. Despite this, I have experienced the state, whose budget I have contributed to for decades, where I employed over six hundred people, and where I developed a business plan for an additional twelve hundred jobs, taking away my capital.

The ATP "Vojvodina" case is among the 24 disputed privatizations, being the only one where the investor, not the state of Serbia, is the injured party. The case is under the monitoring of the European Commission.

The Study of ATP ”Vojvodina” company

Study on the investigation in the case of ATP Vojvodina – Chronicle of the Stopped Investment

17.10.2024. Dević: The Supreme Court of Cassation promptly resolves commercial cases, but it "skipped" two revisions of ATP "Vojvodina."
Dević: What will prevail: the Reform Agenda or the interests of those who are taking my property?

Last week, the European Commission (EC) adopted the Reform Agenda of the Republic of Serbia, the fulfillment of which is a condition for withdrawing EUR 112 million out of the total of approximately 1.5 billion reserved for our country over the next few years. Of the four areas, the most serious is the rule of law, within which is the ATP "Vojvodina" case that is also under the EC monitoring.

VI believe this will encourage the Supreme Court of Cassation (SCC) to resolve the cases for compensation in REVISION 1 and REVISION 2 which first sat in a drawer at the Commercial Court in Novi Sad for more than two years and have now been with the SCC for eight months. I expect these cases to be resolved soon, not only because of the Reform Agenda but also because the SCC is quite prompt in commercial cases handled and reviewed by one panel. All cases from this year that arrived before and a large portion of those that came after the ATP "Vojvodina" case, in which I hold the status of an intervener, have already been resolved.

Why these two cases were skipped remains unclear, as the matter is not complicated and is documented in case law (The ruling that returned like a boomerang)).

What worries me somewhat are the pressures on the SCC, as well as the fact that a judge from Novi Sad was appointed to the court, a similar situation that has already been seen in some previous cases related to this matter (How judges helped in confiscation of my property). Nevertheless, I hope that the obligations Serbia has undertaken through the Reform Agenda, which is being closely monitored by the EU, particularly in the area of the rule of law, will prevail.

I also remind you that the ATP "Vojvodina" case has been under EC monitoring for years as the only one of 24 contentious privatizations in which the investor was harmed, not the state of Serbia.

Respectfully,

Ilija Dević, Investor in ATP "Vojvodina," Novi Sad

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