Mayor, are you a displaced person: Karić in three apartments and two municipalities, who is lying, Benjamina or the documents!?

By: Amina Čorbo-Zećo

SDP's candidate for the mayor of Novo Sarajevo, Benjamina Karić Londrc, supported by Narod i pravda and Naša stranka, has only formally changed her place of residence.

In fact, Karić is a temporarily displaced person because, for political motives and interests, she moved from the Centar municipality, where she actually intends to live, to Novo Sarajevo, which she wants to govern. From the available documentation, it is impossible to determine how she did this legally before May 2024. Because the documentation clearly states that she transferred her ownership share in the apartment at Topal Osman paše street 20 (Loris building) back in 2017.

Now she is returning everything to its original state, but the question remains on the basis of which document she changed her residence.

By changing her CIPS registration, Karić met the prerequisites to be a candidate for mayor of Trojka for Novo Sarajevo. However, there are many ambiguities regarding this issue, as the Election Law of BiH clearly specifies that RESIDENCE is the municipality, city, or district in which a citizen settles with the intention of living there permanently.
And where Karić actually intends to live has been proven by her purchase of an apartment in the strict city center. We remind you that the media reported that she was renovating the facade and roof of that apartment with budget funds!

However, to avoid ambiguities, although we possess a land registry extract stating that she transferred her gifted share from her mother Brankica Đinđić on 05/25/2017 to a person with the initials M. M., and the notary deed was done by Dževad Pazelja, we asked Mayor Karić to answer the questions:

Where does Benjamina Karić Londrc live, in Centar or in the municipality of Novo Sarajevo?

Is it true, as the land registry extract shows, that she transferred the apartment in Topal Osman paše street number 20 back in 2017?

What was the basis for registering at CIPS/Novo Sarajevo in the apartment on Topal Osman paše street and on what document?

Is it true that the mayor authorized lawyer Amela Dizdarević-Bulja to represent her before the Land Registry Office of the Municipal Court of Sarajevo for the deletion of the pre-registration of ownership rights to the property at Topal Osman paše street?

The answer arrived promptly, but according to the documentation provided, it turned out to be false.

„Mayor Benjamina Karić resides in Novo Sarajevo, in an apartment that her family bought when the building was first constructed, in the seventies. There was no property transfer in 2017, and the mayor is the owner of 2/3 of the apartment, based on which she has all legal rights,“ the response from the City of Sarajevo states.

And perhaps she would have had the legal right if everything had been done in accordance with the law, and the decision of the Municipal Court in Sarajevo dated September 6 shows that Karić lied both in her response to Patria and that she did not have registered ownership in the land registry on the day she changed her residence.

From the Court's decision, it is evident that she transferred the apartment in 2017 for which she was obliged to pay taxes, which she did not do, although she reported the notary contract to the land registry office to place a notation.

The Court's decision of September 6 proves that Karić was not telling the truth

The contract was signed in March 2017, and the contract was terminated in May 2017. It is obvious that she transferred it falsely, and after some time, she terminated the same contract, but still fearing problems, she did not report the termination to the land registry office of the Municipal Court in Sarajevo.

After her candidacy for mayor, in an attempt to deceive the public and the system, the process of implementing the contract in the land registry began. However, the question remains how she then registered her residence through the CIPS system without a land registry entry. According to the law, when registering residence, it is necessary to have proof of residence at the address where one is registering, which Karić could not have regularly.

The land registry shows that Karić did not have proof of apartment ownership at the time of registering her residence

It is also unclear why she bought an apartment in Titova street, claiming that her 50m2 apartment in Bolnička street was too small, if she had a 100 square meter apartment available in the Loris building.

It is obvious that Mayor Karić is trying to manipulate not only the citizens of Novo Sarajevo but also the city she leads because, according to the documentation, she is now the owner or co-owner of as many as three apartments.

The fact is that until May of this year, Karić did not live in Grbavica but in Bolnička street in the Centar municipality. After all this, she bought another apartment in the Centar municipality. Her work as mayor has largely been confined to tasks in the Centar municipality; isn't it clear then that Mayor Karić should have been a candidate for the Centar municipality, and not for Novo Sarajevo where she was imposed as an SDP candidate due to the miscalculations of her political mentors.

At the same time, we ask the SDP why, in the Sarajevo Canton where you are in power, your Law on Residence is not being implemented, which cost a large number of citizens in the Republika Srpska entity their right to vote. We have the answer, and we hope the citizens do too!