BUSINESS OF THE COMPANY PAVGORD CG: Lawsuits, debts, property without permits, business connections with the accused of trafficking

When it comes to the wholesale of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels the company “Pavgord CG”, owned by BiH businessman Gordan Pavlović Goci, was the third in Montenegro with the revenue of 1.3 million Euro in 2019. This is confirmed by the Report on situation in the Energy Sector of Montenegro for 2019. It is a company that was founded in Podgorica on September 15, 2014. Gordan Pavlović was then registered as its founder and executive director. The operations of his company in Montenegro are permeated with lawsuits, tax debts, as well as with property without permits.

 

The company “Pavgord CG”, although operating successfully in Montenegro, has two lawsuits brought against it in Montenegrin courts, which still have not been registered in the cadastral register. Pavlović has not been paying taxes on time. Thus, the state of Montenegro and the Municipality of Kotor have registered encumbrances on his real estate in Sutivan area.

 

 

Registration of the conclusion on securing the tax claim from May 7, 2015 in favor of Montenegro, debt in the amount of 17.407 Euro - is written on the note entered in May 2015, which is today still active in the data of the Real Estate Administration. Almost three months later, encumbrance of the Municipality of Kotor was also registered on the same property over a debt of 22.380 Euro.

 

 

 

The company “Pavgord CG” acquired the property in Kotor by purchasing it from the company “Vuk & Petroleum” whose executive director and authorized representative, Duško Nikaljević, was indicted for cigarette smuggling, and in June of this year the High Court in Podgorica confirmed the indictment. According to the indictment, Nikaljević and Đoka Camaj had during 2018 organized a criminal group on the territory of Montenegro, Serbia, Italy and European countries for smuggling of cigarettes on the gray market of Serbia and Montenegro. There are no indications that the company “Pavgord CG”, i.e. that its owner had anything to do with these accusations of cigarette smuggling, just as similar suspicions had not been proven in Bosnia and Herzegovina years before.

 

Just to recall that the company “Pavgord” in Bosnia and Herzegovina, i.e. Gordan Pavlović, were associated with the smuggling of cigarettes and coffee in a very similar way. Back in 2008, the Montenegrin police arrested Rajko Vučević from Foča, who was illegally transporting cigarettes in Pavgord’s truck. The court in Pljevlja sentenced him to three months in prison.

 

Pavgorda’s driver Dragan Sarić, a citizen of Montenegro, received a significantly higher penalty. He was sentenced to four years in prison for smuggling about 25 tons of coffee. Pavgord’s truck was used, which was allegedly only rented to the Bileća-based company “Red Star Papić”, whose director Milan Papić was sentenced to five years in prison. It was assumed that more than 300 tons of coffee were transported in this way, and mostly to Montenegro. 

 

 

Gordan Pavlović was only a witness in both cases, and vainly did the defendants’ lawyers point out his responsibility. There was allegedly no evidence, except for the suspicion that Pavlović was in fact (co)organizer of the smuggling operation.

 

The same thing happens with business operations in Montenegro. Pavlović is always “somewhere”, never the main actor, but his name is somehow in the background of the story.

 

The Montenegrin Company “Vuk & Petrol” has been under investigation of the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica since the beginning of 2015 for doing business with Podgorica-based Company “Zetatrans” – after significant balance sheet errors related to the storage activities in “Zetatrans”, worth 1.037 million Euro, were reported.

 

 

“Pavgord CG” had bought five gas stations in Montenegro from “Vuk & Petroleum” in May of 2016, and then sold them at the beginning of February 2019. The buyer was Croatian “INA” for 10 million Euro. Negotiations between Pavlović and the Croats had been going on since the end of 2016, and the point of disagreement was the tax debt of three million Euro inherited from “Vuk & Petroleum”.

 

The executive director of “Pavgord CG”, Danijela Drašković, did not then want to answer the questions of the daily “Pobjeda” if the debt was paid and if the consent for the concentration of market participants was sought from the Agency for Protection of Competition during the purchase contract. Drašković said that these were the questions for “INA Montenegro”.

 

Some ten years ago, more accurately until May 2020, the director of “Pavgord CG” had the same function in now closed company “Euro Petrol”, which in 2011 was under investigation of the Basic State Prosecutor’s Office and the Police Administration of Montenegro for certain business malversations with regard to oil trade. The Customs Administration of Montenegro confirmed that the investigation procedure existed in 2011.

 

“The Customs Administration had, by an order of the Basic State Prosecutor and at the request of the Police Administration,  in July 2011 submitted customs documentation related to the company D.O.O. “Euro Petrol” from Podgorica, which is the subject of your interest,” said the PR Office of the Customs Administration.

 

We also asked the Prosecutor’s Office what happened to that case, but no answer had been given by the time this text was finished. We did not receive an answer from Danijela Drašković, who forwarded the questions about the company “Euro Petrol” to Nreka Gojčaj, the former authorized representative of now closed company.

 

“Euro Petrol operated in accordance with the law. No one from the prosecutor’s office or the police contacted us for any statements,” said Gojčaj.

 

The Central Registry of Business Entities (CRPS) records that the company “Euro Petrol” was shut down in February 2013.

 

Furthermore, the data of the Real Estate Administration reveal that the company “Pavgord CG” bought a three-story building with an attic in Kotor settlement of Škaljari, which does not have a certificate of occupancy. Encumbrance “no building permit for the attic” is registered on that property, together with the judicial proceeding before the Basic Court in Kotor on the action brought  May 2019 by Podgorica citizen, Darko Bušković.

 

 

Darko Bušković was the executive director of now closed Podgorica-based company “Montecement”, which was owned by the Swiss company “Capital Venture Adriatic GMBH”. The action brought by Bušković is registered as an encumbrance on the property of Pavlović’s company in Kotor, Budva and Bar.

 

There is no rational, economically substantiated explanation for the tens of millions that Pavlović has invested in Bosnia and Herzegovina in recent years for the purchase of numerous ownership and co-ownership shares in companies, the purchase of hotels and other real estate. It is evident that so far all of his ventures, since the very beginning of his business success, were supported by SNSD President Milorad Dodik. Gordan Pavlović has been for years now refusing to respond to media inquiries.

 

Gordan Pavlović and Milorad Dodik

 

There is a long list of companies and real estate that Pavlović had acquired under suspicions in the regularity. He bought the resort of the company Maglić in Igalo for million KM, for what the Ministry of the Interior submitted a criminal charge against the bankruptcy trustee of this company.

 

Section of the report of the RS Ministry of Interior

 

 

There are Tehnokom, Footwear Factory Foleda Miljevina, he constructed repair and technical inspection shops, construction and trading companies, dozens of business premises in Foča on the site of the former Socks Factory. In Novi Sad he bought Motins, factory for the production of parts for the automotive industry, for approximately 1.6 million Euro. He bought hotels in Višegrad, Foča, Gacko. He resold the hotel in Rudo to the Russian “businessman” Rashid Serdarov.

 

He also owns Srbinjeputevi, as well as the extremely profitable Miljevina Brown Coal Mine, which it bought from the RS Government for six million KM by direct agreement.

 

According to the APIF (Agency for Intermediary, IT and Financial Services) his company Pavgord alone generated a comprehensive profit of 65 million KM in the period 2010 - 2019!!

 

 Source: akta.ba

 

 

Over the past few years he has been buying multimillion corporate receivables from the banks. He had bought:

- claims of Bobar bank in bankruptcy on the company “Aqua city” for 4.2 million KM

- became the majority owner of Žitopromet Bijeljina on the basis of Pavgord’s claim of 4.8 million KM

-he had, together with Novi Sad company Galens, bought 44% of the shares of former Pavlović bank (now called Naša banka) for 7 million KM 

  - Pavlović bought 165 million KM claim of Lithuanian UKIO bank on the factory Birač Zvornik for 12 and a half million KM. 

 

Alumina Factory Birač Zvornik

 

 

Pavlović also bought 63% of “Sugar factory Bijeljina” creditors’ claims for 10 million marks. A few years back Bijeljina sugar factory was owned by businessman Zoran Ćopić, who is a convicted associate of the Montenegrin drug lord Darko Šarić. Pavlović started business operations in Montenegro same as he had started them in Bosnia and Herzegovina, building by building, just to suddenly invest tens of millions of KM in purchasing large, profitable companies that, by chance or not, are “pushed” into bankruptcy.

 

 

 

 

(zurnal.info)