The Dubrovnik Commercial Court rejected the requests of the Sarajevo hospital for the exemption of three plots of land from the bankruptcy estate of the Cavtat hospital which the claimant asserts to be in its ownership.
The request is turned down as the KSUC has not proved that it owns the said plots, Dubrovnik Commercial Court judge Srdjan Gavranic told Hina on Tuesday.
The KSUC also claims that a court in Split made an unlawful decision to strip Bosnia-Herzegovina of its ownership of the said hospital and its premises in 1993 because this was decided in wartime when ownership rights should be held in abeyance.
The chairman of Bosnia-Herzegovina's Council of Ministers, Adnan Terzic, recently asked his Croatian counterpart Ivo Sanader to take measures so as to prevent the sale of the Cavtat hospital, and proposed that the issue be added to topics of negotiations on a Bosnian-Croatian agreement on property-related issues.
Two years ago, employees in the Cavtat hospital launched bankruptcy proceedings in order to receive their salaries in arrears. After that the Dubrovnik Commercial Court appointed the official receiver and recently accepted an offer of the local company called Konel for the purchase of a part of the hospital complex.