Family Sadzakovic are natives of the Milosevo village near Obilic/Obiliq and own three valuable parcels in this place, but they cannot enter the property. –A Serb female offers a “deal” with Albanian businessman.
Lazar Sadzakovic (50), economic technician from Belgrade, is the owner of a parcel of 62 acres, by which a few years ago was built a highway Merdare – Vernica. Precisely, Lazar’s father Svetozar, a native of Milosevo near Obilic/Obiliq in Kosovo, has three valuable parcels in this place, but he cannot enter into possession of his property.
Sadzakovic family lived for more than two centuries in this region, says Lazar.
– My father is the owner of three parcels with a total area of two and a half acres in the village Miloševo, cadastral municipality Obilic/Obiliq. Three or four years ago, we received notification that the parcels were officially registered on his father’s name, in the new Kosovo cadastre, namely the Kosovo Cadastral Agency. Otherwise, all documentation is coming through the office of the Kosovo Property Agency, in the Visegradska Street.
Shortly thereafter, from the Kosovo Ministry of Infrastructure, arrives new notification for Sadzakovics – through their country will go the route of the new highway, and that for this purpose they are going to take part or the whole parcel, and will provide them fair compensation .
– Since then, we are trying to find out what is going on, bearing in mind that our other parcel, which is located a few hundred meters away, also comes out to the highway. We took satellite Google images where you can see containers with UNHCR labels located on our plots. My brother Zlatko visited Miloševo about a year and a half ago, and saw an empty, paved lot, with electricity and water. Traces of the containers remained, which were removed in the meantime – says Lazar.
They wrote to all relevant institutions in Pristina, and then followed a call of a Serbian woman, who they did not know.
– She introduced herself, she said that she used to be a judge in Pristina, and offered services saying that she can help us to make a deal with the man who now owns the rights to all our parcels. As it turned out, it is a certain Albanian, a businessman who settled there who knows when. Anyway, my father did not know of him or his family – says Sadzakovic.
After a while, they came into direct contact with the businessman, who said he does not want just one plot of their land, the one by the highway, which, according to Sadzakovic, the businessman was using for years without authorization and was renting it to UNHCR.
– He told us that he wants to buy our land, for a total of 170,000 euros. We felt that this is blackmail, because only the small parcel next to the highway is worth at least twice, and the aforementioned 170,000 he already earned by renting our land. He also appropriated and 20,000 euros, which the Ministry of Infrastructure of Kosovo gave as compensation for the six acres of land, seized for the construction of the highway. He stated that we can only sell the parcels to him, and that no one else will come in their possession – says our interlocutor.
The Ministry of Infrastructure of Kosovo informed them that, after the construction of the highway, this lot is no longer in their jurisdiction and sent them to the Kosovo Property Agency. They did not receive any reply so far.
– We are looking the rental contract between this businessmen and UNHCR. We approached a few months ago and the office “Diadikasia” in Belgrade, an international organization that provides legal assistance to refugees. Through them, we sent letters to a number of relevant institutions, both in Kosovo and abroad, but we received no reply so far. We cannot fight alone – says Sadzakovic…
