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

29.07.2024. lija Dević: Financial Supporters of the Ruling Party Continue to Direct the Process of Seizing My Property.
BAS and "Lasta" will Face the Same Fate as ATP "Vojvodina".

These days will mark 20 years since I purchased ATP "Vojvodina" at a public auction. It was supposed to be a successful privatization, as I fulfilled the investment plan in the first year, employed 200 new workers, expanded the business portfolio, and embarked on ambitious investments.

Specifically, I made an, agreement with the City of Novi Sad based on the General Urban Plan (GUP) , to build intercity and international bus stations. I financed the project with my own funds and loans, but the City of Novi Sad failed to fulfill its obligation. As a result, the station could not operate, and two years later, ATP "Vojvodina" as the investor went bankrupt.

I regularly informed the public about the lawlessness in this process onI regularly informed the public about the lawlessness in this process on www.ilijadevic.rs.

At this moment, the decision from the Supreme Court of Cassation (VKS) is awaited regarding my compensation claims. I do not expect surprises, as there is already an established court practice where the City of Novi Sad paid four million euros for damages caused by breach of contract in one period. I should underline that I was not satisfied with the VKS decision at that time (2013), as it was made under political pressure, with the main executors being prosecutor Djordje Ostojić and the current president of the Constitutional Court, Snežana Marković.

Evidence: Chronology of VKS ruling in the ATP”Vojvodina” case under political pressure

The compensation claims currently before the VKS cover the remaining period stipulated in the contract.

Despite this legally clear situation, the receivership administration of ATP "Vojvodina" did not have the "patience" to wait for the outcome and hastily organized the sale of the assets for a pittance. The bankruptcy court in Novi Sad, led by bankruptcy judges Slobodanka Komšić and Vladislav Kurtek, assisted by archiving the compensation claims instead of sending them to the Supreme Cassation Court for its decision.

The purpose of archiving the compensation claims was to ensure they would not be decided upon, to close the bankruptcy estate, and render them meaningless.

This scenario by the bankruptcy administration and bankruptcy judges in the Novi Sad Commercial Court, Slobodanka Komšić and Vladislav Kurtek, also caused problems in the cadaster – secured creditors and the Tax Administration were not compensated due to the unrealistically low sale price of the assets. Therefore, the mortgage on the properties could not be lifted, and the fictitious buyers still cannot register as owners.

Naturally, the financial founders and supporters of the ruling party are behind the entire ATP "Vojvodina" bankruptcy course and the seizure of my property. They are now preparing to seize the Belgrade Bus Station (BAS) and the transport company LASTA using a similar model.

In the next announcement: on the financial involvement of the City of Novi Sad in the ATP "Vojvodina" bus station investment compared to the costs of the City of Belgrade in relocating BAS for the "Belgrade Waterfront" project, noting that both cases involve privatized companies.

Respectfully,

Ilija Dević, investor of ATP "Vojvodina"

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