Kosovo’s Privatisation Agency, PAK, has for a second time asked Montenegro’s Real Estate Administration to halt a contract signed between Serbia’s Liquidation and Bankruptcy Unit and a Bosnian citizen, Andjela Sekulovic, for the sale of six properties that belonged to a socially owned Kosovo enterprise.

The enterprise was also registered under the real estate administration in Podgorica.

According to PAK, the socially owned enterprise “Kosova Export-Butcher”, based in Fushe Kosovo/Kosovo Polje, was informed on April 5 that the Transport and Production Enterprise DD “Klanica”, based in Kraljevo, Serbia, and Serbia’s Liquidation and Bankruptcy Unit, had signed an agreement for the sale of Klanica’s assets to Sekulovic on March 4.

In its complaint, the PAK said that it is unlawful for Serbia’s Liquidation and Bankruptcy Unit to act on behalf of a Kosovo enterprise.

“‘Klanica’ is a fictitious enterprise registered in 1998 as a joint-stock company by its Serbian management during Serbia’s repressive rule [in Kosovo]. Legally, its only owner is the Kosovo Privatization Company,” the PAK told BIRN.

But PAK officials say they are facing legal challenges because of a lack of documents, due to the decade of Serbian repressive rule over Kosovo, after it abolished Kosovo’s autonomy and subsequently changed the status of many Kosovo socially-owned enterprises.