Residents fight for a unique Vilnius house in court: a neighbor is accused of kidnapping a tower that belongs to everyone

The house in Washington Square 1 is really unique, you won’t be able to find another one with that tower, at least in Vilnius. It was built in the post-war period for the Soviet scientific elite (similar arose in other capitals of the Soviet republics), which is why it is still called the House of Scientists. However, the tower, which adorns both the apartment building and the panorama of the capital, has become a source of disagreement among neighbors. And these disagreements have already reached court.

The technical room converted into housing.

How 15 minutes Olga Žiugždienė, who has lived in this house for many years, said, under the tower a so-called technical floor was installed with several rooms, small windows and a staircase to the tower. The privatization that began after 1990 brought changes, according to O. Žiugždienė, “those rooms were mysteriously converted into an apartment and were privatized with the blessing of the then-old Naujamiestis.”

It took place in 1992-1994 and was acquired by current owner Vidmantas Jackevičius, says the resident. At that time, part of the common corridor was in this apartment and the stairs to the tower. The apartment itself is under the tower.

Neighbors say they knew nothing about it. yes 15 minutes said Giedrius Baziulis, a lawyer who lives in this house, who found out about it due to a completely different story, which started in 2003 with a meeting of the house’s residents, who raised the idea of ​​selling the house’s shelters afterwards. having been repaired. All of this was done, but around 2010. G. Baziulis noted that in the attic he bought, repair defects began to appear, so he turned to the then president of the association, asking the builders to make claims, but said that he had accomplished nothing. However, this made him even more interested in home affairs.

The tower is in a state of emergency.

Perhaps this story would have been forgotten if, in 2016, the representatives of the house, as O. Žiugždienė says, had not heard from the president of the association that the state of the tower was emergency. Now remember that the representatives of the residents were never provided with any official document with the requirements to repair the tower due to its emergency condition, since they supposedly came from the municipality of the city of Vilnius and from the Department of Cultural Heritage. But then no one had any doubts about such statements.

“We believed that because Mr. Jackevičius came to every meeting with a pile of documents proving that the condition of the tower was really very bad, that he was repairing something there for his own money, we received bills, the president of the Asociation”. We unanimously agree that reparations are necessary so that we can raise more money than the law provides, “said O. Žiugždienė.

We unanimously agreed that repairs are needed, said O. Žiugždienė.

However, the decision to start the repair at that time was not made by the residents of the house, but the repair started and started. G.Baziulis says he tried to demand a decision, the existence of which was mentioned by the president of the home association, but failed even after going to court.

A few years later, in 2019, a new president of the association of owners of this house was chosen: Vidmantas Jackevičius. “It just came to our attention then. This requires at least the approval of the House delegates, but the delegates did not vote for it. However, in 2019. In the end there was an invoice for the work done. In writing, you were He asked the president of the association what had been done, but no answer was received. Then the desire was expressed to go see, we never looked at the tower where the money was spent, “says the lawyer.

Turns out, residents haven’t visited the tower in years. Olga admitted that she was the last one there a few decades ago. However, as they say, it does not give anyone the right to take over the tower.

When they go, they say they have received the police.

Last December, according to G.Bazulis, it was agreed to inspect the repair work, and several house commissioners were preparing to do so. But there were unforeseen problems here.

“When we went to see him, he wouldn’t let us in, he called the police,” said G. Basiulis. – Then we had doubts about what was happening here. We began to demand the documents that he had acquired as president of the community for the money of the community. But we didn’t get it, so we had to ask again at the Records Center. It was then that we saw that the entire tower is his. It turns out that he bought an apartment under the tower in 1992, the old technical room. 1994 legitimized it. “

Then the desire to go see was expressed, we never looked at the tower where the money was spent – says G. Baziulis.

According to O. Žiugždienė, at that time V. Jackevičius asked the president of the association for permission to buy the tower, prompting the entrance to it from his apartment. This became the reason after some decades of not allowing the neighbors to inspect the tower repairs, which were made for the money of the entire population.

The representatives of the residents told the police that they did not want to enter the neighbor’s apartment, only to inspect the terrace with a tower that belonged to everyone. “It never occurred to them that a long time ago everything was organized differently. V. Jackevičius told the police that strangers were entering his private property, although he had invited himself and asked him to present a list of those who had come early, ”said O.Žiugždienė.

G. Baziulis continues: “Then we realized that this tower is his. We started looking for documents and received confirmation from the Records Center that in 1994. This man was allowed to install these premises by decree of the old man. We thought about how it is here, then the former president of the community said that he also imagined that the tower is not this neighbor. Since a complaint was filed with the Seimas Ombudsman regarding this situation and he evaluated the material and indicated violations and forced the city of Vilnius. municipality and the Records Center to rectify the deficiencies. The municipality has revoked the decree of the old man, for which the then president of the association affirms without even doubting that everything is in order. “

However, it turned out that he was not registered in the Registration Center, neither after the instructions of the Seimas Ombudsman nor after the municipality revoked the old man’s decree. Accordingly, according to the lawyer, the tower as property is registered on the basis of invalid documents.

O. Žiugždienė claims that V. Jackevičius has never bought a part of the corridor or the premises on the roof: the terrace and the tower. Supposedly, to do so, he had to get the consent of absolutely everyone in the house, and no one had asked for it. And the old man once gave permission only to install workshops, not houses. And only then did the reconstruction and repair of the premises continue, which became the basis for registering the old common premises as their private property in the Records Center.

V.Jackevičius: this is a smear campaign

V. Jackevičius rejects all accusations or suspicions that he embezzled the tower and calls it a smear campaign. It is said that it started because, as president of the association, he demanded the return of 27 thousand LTL by said lawyer G. Baziulis. euro and to pay for central heating, from which the owners of several floors in the house were illegally disconnected.

I have lived here for 25 years, everything was fine all the time until I started to claim Basilio’s debts, – said G. Basiulis.

“As president of the community, I started to claim debts, so he started this whole story, this whole smear campaign. Another thing: you illegally disconnected from the central heating, you don’t pay for it. (…) I have lived here for 25 years, everything was fine all the time until I started to claim Basilio’s debts, “he said.

V.Jackevičius claims that his apartment in the tower, which belongs to him completely legally, will be proved in court. He himself appealed to the police, the Vilnius city municipality and other institutions regarding the disconnection of residents from the central heating system. Although he will not be able to serve as community president now, because a group of neighbors, he says, has “hijacked community facilities and documents,” those stories will not be left behind.

Now, the former president of the home community also raises the question of whether other residents have used the tower all those years to claim he has lost it. He has already heard allegations that his apartment has been repaired for the money of all the residents of the house, although he claims that he has not made the repairs in 15 years. According to V. Jackevičius, the neighbors intended to inspect their home, but they allegedly disagreed with the requirement to apologize in writing if they did not discover that the repairs had been carried out.

“You ask for any document that is a common area. A drawing, a plan, something. Then the slander collapses in the same second, “he assured.

Do you want to go back up the stairs, the terrace and the tower?

The residents filed a lawsuit “against the accused for the protection of the rights of the owners of auxiliary premises, stairs, terraces and buildings in the building tower, which were illegally occupied by the accused under the common partial property right” .

V. Jackevičius, the Records Center, the State Inspectorate for Territorial Planning and Construction, and the Department of Cultural Heritage are named as defendants in the claim.

There, among other things, it is also claimed that residents did not know that the tower was no longer owned by all of them until their visit on December 21 of last year.

The court is being asked to compel V. Jackevičius to release and not interfere with the owners to manage, use and dispose of several Washington a. 1 existing premises.

„21 21 2019 12 noon Co-owners of the building met to inspect the repairs made in 2016 and 2019 to the apartment building with funds raised by the owners of all the apartments and other locations. The defendant refused to inspect the repairs made to the house tower in 2016 and 2019, claiming that it was his private property (!). When the defendants asked the defendant to show documents justifying when and how the common areas, where, as mentioned above, repairs are carried out with funds accumulated by all the owners of the apartments and other premises (! ), The defendant falsely called the police to attack the premises. “, – It is written in the claim, which also establishes that the price of the works carried out since 2016 amounts to more than 73.2 thousand euros.

The court is asked to invalidate the legal act of the Records Center, an entry above the apartment with a roof terrace belonging to V. Jackevičius, and to compel V. Jackevičius himself to release and not interfere with the owners to manage, use and dispose of several Washington a. 1 room – room on floors 7 and 8, stairs to floors 8 and 9, roof terrace and tower.

The Registration Center rejected the request.

Records Center representatives, who were asked to comment on the situation, acknowledge receipt of the request to cancel the “rooftop terrace apartment, Washington 1-22, Vilnius, on record along with the acceptance of the building owned by the apartment owner for the deed of use, elder’s ordinance and for registering in the Real Estate Registry the decision of the Vilnius City Board “In the city of Vilnius Naujamiestis elder board ordinance no.140 and Decree No. 149 invalidation. ”However, he decided to reject it.

“After examining said request, the Territorial Registrar made the decision to reject this request on March 18, 2020, since the act of acceptance of the building for use on March 23, 1995 has not been declared invalid or revoked in accordance with the procedure established by law. As for the other part of the application, to enroll in the Real Estate Registry, decision of the Vilnius City Board no. 655V – The application was also rejected because the form of the document presented did not meet the legal requirements.

The applicants filed a complaint with the Central Registrar’s Dispute Resolution Commission, the decision of the Registration Center was put into effect by the Commission’s decision on June 1, 2020, ”confirms the Registration Center.

A similar request was rejected in May of this year, but it was still rejected by the territorial registrar because “no documents were presented confirming the origin of the rights to be discharged and / or in 1995. revocation / invalidity of the act of acceptance of the structure “.

The records center is named the same as the defendant in the residents’ lawsuit.