Sales of Ljubljana’s land to a Serbian businessman under the Police Lapse

Police are checking the possible existence of reasons for suspected criminal offense in the sale of bad hectares of land purchased last year by the City of Ljubljana by a Serbian businessman Nikola Petrovicreports the portal N1. It belongs to the narrowest circle of the Serbian president and, according to N1, also has contacts with people from organized criminal organizations.

At the General Police Directorate, they confirmed that police on the basis of announcements on N1 It checks the possible existence of reasons for suspicion of committing a crime whose perpetrator is prosecuted ex officio. « If this suspicion is confirmed, the necessary measures in the pre -trial proceedings will be taken, » they explained N1.

Recently, the portal reported how Serbian businessman Nikola Petrovic, who belongs to the narrowest circle of Serbian president Aleksandra Vucic and with which the mayor of Ljubljana occasionally meets Zoran Jankoviclast year, through its Ljubljana company NG Project, from the City of Ljubljana, as the only bidder at the auction, bought almost a hectare of land in the Trnovo suburb.

Petrovic’s NG Project was entered in the court register two weeks before the municipality of Ljubljana publicly announced that it would irritate three parcels in the Trnovo suburb, a total of 9243 square meters. The NG project was the only bidder at auction and bought the land at a starting price of € 2.68 million, which raised EUR 3.3 million together with VAT.

Whether the founding of the NG project was a coincidence just before publishing auction or whether the buyer knew in advance that these municipal land was auctioned, according to reporting N1 It is unknown.

However, the municipality of Ljubljana also sold these same plots in 2021 and 2022, but at that time the cost of just under € 4.2 million was the starting price. Last year, when Petrovic bought them as the only bidder, the starting price was based on a value estimate of almost one and a half euros lower. Ljubljana Mayor Zoran Jankovic also confirmed that this is true at one of his press conferences. Why Petrovic was the only bidder at the auction, however, should be asked by others, Jankovic said.

Nikola Petrovic belongs to the narrowest circle of Serbian President Vucic and has reported N1 Also, private and business contacts with people from organized criminal organizations and with people very close to these associations. Jankovic also knows Petrovic personally, according to reporting N1 have met at least four times during the current term, each time outside the premises of the City of Ljubljana.