Executors come for a fee! Citizens have large debts, see what you have to pay ASAP

Almost a million old enforcement cases will be transferred successively to public enforcement agents in the next two years, and some of them are older than 15 or even 20 years. The transfer is ongoing, and among them are the most unpaid utilities, where interest rates have accumulated over the years and decades.

Thus, citizens, instead of p. Eg 1,000 dinars of now forgotten debt, with predetermined interest and procedural costs, they have to pay 20,000-30,000 dinars.

BV from Belgrade, 50, had her phone stolen in the summer of 2008.

“In a very short time they made me an account of 91,490 dinars, because I couldn’t block it right away. I contacted my mobile operator, but they never accepted my complaint. I found out that I was sued for the first time about a month ago, when, after 12 years, the executors handed me the execution decision! With interest and processing costs, the debt exceeded 260,000 dinars. I immediately filed an objection and will initiate proceedings for violating the right to a trial within a reasonable time, ”says this Belgrade citizen.

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Of the various executors, they have an announcement that in the next two years they will receive one hundred cases per month per person only from the First Court of First Instance in Belgrade. In this court, by the way, each enforcement judge has 6,500 old cases at work.

Those for whom the motion for execution has been withdrawn, the judges suspend, while the others are referred to the executors. Creditors are usually “Infostan”, “Parking Service”, “Vodovod”, “Belgrade Power Plants”, RTS Public Service (for TV subscription), as well as a bankrupt bank.

“So far, 4,573 cases have been referred to public executors on the basis of an executive document and 22,266 cases on the basis of a credible document (public service claims),” Bojana Stankovic, spokesperson for the First Basic Court of Belgrade, which is the most active court in executive matters.

In 2020, out of a total of 7,523 cases based on an executive document, 2,022 were still pending and a further 174,487 based on an authentic document.

Since utility claims become obsolete within a year, in order not to become obsolete, creditors submitted a new foreclosure proposal to the court every year, but the cases were still in the drawers.

Following the adoption of the latest reforms to the Law on Enforcement and Security, in order to relieve the courts, these cases were transferred to law enforcement officials. As they say, “they got hot potatoes”, because now they would need people who have been in debt to park for 15 years and do not remember charging tens of thousands of dinars in interest. And all that for just a quarter of the tariff, as prescribed by law when it comes to vintage items.

“The state could at least dismiss the interest of the people and not let the reluctance of the courts fall on their shoulders.” Some foreclosure debtors did not even pay us the mandatory statutory advance, so we immediately suspend those cases, “says an enforcement agent.

Before judges refer cases for execution, they must first conduct triage, which is suspended by law. For example, the settlement of communal debts in which the execution has not started yet, and the principal does not exceed 2,000 dinars, or if the debtor’s account has been blocked for more than three years and the creditor has not proposed a change in the means and object of execution.