Crime Office: Investigation for Illegal House Sale

Andjelko Stanojevic is the chief of Vis’ centre for welfare, and is suspected of enabling an illegal sale of a building and land.

The head of Vis’ centre for welfare, Andjelko Stanojevic, is suspected of enabling the illegal sale of real estate, which was owned by a user of the welfare services. The sale was illegal in the sense that the piece of real estate was sold at a price six times lower than market value, according to USKOK.

Besides the 62 year old Stanojevic, there is also a 55 year old suspect who paid only 123,000 kuna for land and two houses on the island of Vis, which are worth nearly 700,000 kuna in market value.

An investigation against them has been requested from the County Court in Split for the abuse of position and powers, and prompting those criminal acts. USKOK (Office for the Prevention of Corruption and Organized Crime) has requested that Stanojevic be held in custody.

He is suspected of bringing an illegal decision in May 2001 that allowed the centre for social welfare for sell a house and land to the suspect for only 67,000 kuna, that was granted to a woman that was unable to work, when the estimated market value of the property was at least 293,000 kuna.

USKOK also claims that he did the same thing in June 2002 when he let a 55 year old buy another property and house from the same owner for only 56,000 kuna, when the market value was at least 400,000 kuna.

In this way the owner of the property (the woman) was denied 570,000 kuna, whilst the suspects saved that much.

The money from the sale of the real estate was held by one of the suspects, with the knowledge and approval of Stanojevic, even though the money should have been placed on the bank account of the woman. After the death of the welfare receiver, his wife allegedly gave Stanojevic, during January 2006 in Vis, 10 thousand euros and 9 thousand kuna.

He did not name a new welfare receiver, but placed her file in the archive in order to hide the misuse.