The municipal police of Tivat, in collaboration with the Security Service of the Luštica Bay company, successfully identified the individual responsible for a shocking environmental incident involving the discharge of several tons of fecal waste near Cape Kočište.

According to the Head of the Municipal Police Sector at the Secretariat for Inspection and Communal Supervision, Gvozden Balšić, this identification was made possible through surveillance footage from the Luštica Bay tourist resort, particularly on the access road to Almara Beach in Oblatno, as well as other supporting evidence.

“On March 27, in partnership with Luštica Bay personnel, we secured video evidence and corroborated that on March 14 at 18:23:52, a sewage disposal vehicle with the license plate PG HR 28, belonging to ‘Vigrad Montenegro’ DOO Podgorica, traversed the road leading to Cape Kočište and continued towards Dobra Luka Bay. We subsequently summoned representatives of the company verbally to the Municipal Police on March 2, 2000. They complied and were provided with the surveillance records and misdemeanor warrants amounting to a total of 2,000 euros,” stated Balšić.

Recently, a tourist from Croatia, visiting Boka Kotorska in mid-March, reached out to “Vijesti” after witnessing an alarming scene of blatant environmental negligence near Cape Kočište in Trašte Bay. Amidst pristine nature, near a viewpoint overlooking Cape Kočište and the sea beyond, he discovered a significant amount of feces dumped by an operator of an autofecal cistern involved in septic tank emptying services in Boka Kotorska.

The site of the septic tank discharge lies within an area long-term leased to the Egyptian-Swiss consortium Orascom Development, which is undertaking a project valued at over one billion euros to construct a luxury tourist destination, Luštica Bay, on approximately seven million square meters of state-owned land on the Luštica peninsula. The region surrounding Cape Kočište has been marked as the most exclusive section of the entire Luštica Bay, designated for ultra-luxury private villas, with plans to prohibit public access once development is complete.

The designated legal site for emptying septic tanks in Tivat is the Tivat and Kotor wastewater treatment facility in Klačina in Krtoli, located less than 10 kilometers from where the waste was illegally disposed of. The joint venture managing the plant provides services to septic tank operators in Boka who hold contracts with them, charging nominal fees of just a few euros per tank.

Following the publication of the Croatian tourist’s account and the video footage of the waste spill by “Vijesti,” the Luštica Bay security service proactively began reviewing all surveillance recordings from their system in the vicinity where the sewage tanker passed en route to the illegal dumping site, with the Tivat Municipal Police joining the investigation immediately thereafter.

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