Due to fraud in business operations, the Municipal State Attorney’s Office in Split has, after conducting an investigation, filed an indictment against a Split entrepreneur who received money from three buyers for apartments that they could not register, but which were registered by new owners several years later.
The identity of the accused is not disclosed in the statement from the State Attorney’s Office, but unofficially it is learned that it concerns Željko Bilić (55), a former owner and director of the company PIS from Split.
He is charged with having, from May 2006 to the end of December 2008, as the founder and member of the management board of the company that was the investor and seller of a residential-commercial building, arranged the sale of apartments and parking spaces for a total price of 140 thousand euros and requested payment of the purchase price.
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When he received a total amount of 140 thousand euros from the buyers on May 4 and October 10, 2006, he falsely represented to them that upon completion of construction he would transfer the apartments and parking spaces to them in full ownership, having previously decided not to act accordingly and never issuing them tabular statements, thus preventing them from registering their ownership rights, the prosecution states.
However, after the change of ownership of the property, the new owners – a commercial company and an individual – registered as owners of the properties which they sold to three other buyers on August 6, 2013, and on September 26, 2014, and April 29, 2015, sold to a third person. The mentioned buyers registered in the land registry of the competent municipal court as owners of the respective properties, according to the indictment.
The prosecution charges Bilić with having thus harmed two buyers for an amount exceeding 837 thousand kuna and having obtained unjust enrichment for the commercial company in that amount.
