The capital municipality began to demolish the illegal constructions of the company “Bio mining” of Rumen Gaitanski, known as the Wolf, near the Iskar dam. The demolition of the buildings, which also include a hunting hotel, will cost the Sofia taxpayers about BGN 2.4 million and will last between 3 and 6 months.
After the complete demolition of the hunting hotel, the workshop and the room for the wild boar, the municipality will claim the amount spent to Gaitanski’s company.
Mayor Vasil Terziev announced the demolition of the buildings in a Facebook post, after the municipality did not answer Mediapool’s questions for weeks about what will happen to the constructions declared illegal by the court.
As the law dictates
“From the very beginning of my mandate, I stated that we will have no tolerance for non-compliance with the law and rules and that there will be political will so that this does not remain just words. Today, the removal of illegal constructions owned by the company “Bio Mining” in State Hunting farm “Iskar”, which are located near the eastern shore of the “Iskar” dam. One mandate and political will did not reach the previous city administration to do what the law dictates”wrote Vasil Terziev.
The illegal buildings were built on the territory of the State Hunting Farm “Iskar” under a contract between the state structure and the private company for joint activity. “Bio mining” has a 15-year contract for joint hunting activities with the farm, concluded on June 23, 2016. The procedure for conducting a competition is in accordance with the law on hunting, and for this purpose an order was issued on 14.11.2013 to the Minister of Agriculture in the “Oresharski” cabinet Dimitar Grekov, who never denied media publications that he is from the DPS quota.
In recent months, in a series of cases, the Supreme Administrative Court ruled definitively that the buildings on the grounds of the hunting farm must be demolished. The cases were conducted because of the orders of the chief architect of Sofia Zdravko Zdravkov from 2021 and 2022, by which “Bio mining” was ordered to remove the buildings voluntarily.
The final decision on the demolition of the largest building – the so-called hunting hotel, opened in April 2023. Months later, the Metropolitan Municipality and the state hunting farm explained that they currently do not have the funds to demolish the building. The municipality stated that they would look for money, but the buildings of “Bio Mining” were not on the list of illegal properties to be removed, and the priority was dangerous buildings in the city. In addition, there was a need for a decision by the municipal council to allocate the funds.
Now the demolition is done without the voting procedure in the Metropolitan Municipal Council.
For BGN 2.4 million
“After the deadline for voluntary implementation expired, today the municipal company, which was entrusted with the enforcement of the orders, proceeded to remove them. According to a preliminary assessment, the removal of the buildings will take between 3 and 6 months and will cost the municipality up to BGN 2.4 million. The amount that the Metropolitan Municipality will pay to the municipal enterprise will be presented by court order to the company after the demolition and removal of the construction waste have been completed.”writes Vasil Terziev.
He adds that the waste from the demolition will be collected separately and recycled.
This is the first significant and significant illegal construction that the Metropolitan Municipality has removed in years.
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