Dajla parish case

High Administrative Court quashes justice ministry's decision about Dajla

07.04.2013 u 20:00

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The High Administrative Court has quashed the decision of former Justice Minister Drazen Bosnjakovic, dated August 2011, to return the property of the Dajla parish in Istria County to the Republic of Croatia - from the parish, the Golf Istra Magica company reported on Sunday adding that the final ruling resolved the Dajla case and removed the obstacle to the continuation of the Biska Golf Istra project

The Golf Istra Magica company from Buje, which earlier on bought part of the property in question to build golf courses, villas and a smaller hotel, the investment worth some EUR 115 million.

The High Administrative Court handed down its ruling on 21 March.

On 9 August 2011, the justice ministry declared null and void decisions issued between 1997 and 2002 by the Buje branch of the Property Rights Affairs Office which, under the law on compensation for property seized under the Yugoslav communist rule, gave some 400 hectares of land, seized from a Benedictine monastery as part of the agrarian reform, to the Dajla parish as the monastery's legal successor.