The owner of the historic building burned a few days ago is a company that has its headquarters in a block of flats in Łódź. In the apartment where the family lives with the child. The president was to be the late 94-year-old, and a prosecutor two years younger. The bailiff has not been in contact with anyone for several years, nobody wanted to buy a bid. Firefighters initially determined that the cause of the fire was arson. The prosecutor's office has already dealt with the matter.
Fire in the building of the former boarding school at 3 Kuperwińska Street In Zgierz it was noticed on Friday (February 28) around 17:25. The firefighting action was difficult, 47 firefighters worked on the spot. Even then, the reaction of the city's residents gave a lot to think about, because no one believed in accident. Zgierz councilor Przemysław Jagielski published photos and a film from a drone in social media, which shows that the fire appeared in three completely different places.
Flames appeared in three different placesPrzemysław Jagielski
A fire of the building under the former boarding school in Zgierz Przemysław Jagielski
On -site police, prosecutor and expert
We went to Kuropatwińska Street in Zgierz two days after the fire. Police tapes were stretched on one of the entrance gates to the building of the former boarding school. Several men walked around the area – they were policemen and ran to firefighting appointed by the prosecutor's office in Zgierz. Already on Saturday (March 1), the head of the local prosecutor's office reported that the proceedings would be initiated. – The prosecutor's office will conduct proceedings regarding the causing of a large size property. On -site examination will be carried out with the participation of a fire expert – told tvn24.pl head of the District Prosecutor's Office in Zgierz, prosecutor Janusz Tomczak. On Saturday, firefighters informed about the preliminary causes of the fire. – The presumed cause of the fire was arson – said on Saturday in an interview with tvn24.pl, spokesman for the State Fire Service in Zgierz Dominik Wilk.
On Monday (March 3), the police and expert worked in the former boarding school in Zgierz Tvn24
The financial problems of the owner
The facility at Kuropatwińska Street in Zgierz is a boarding school, built in 1921-1927 according to the design of Ludwik Ola in a national style, referring to the baroque-classic tradition. The plot has an area of nearly one and a half hectare. In 2016, the facility was sold by the Marshal's Office in Łódź to a private person. This, in turn, sold it for about five million zlotys to Aurum Medica sp. Zoo, which took a multi -million loan for the revitalization of the building. A social welfare home was planned for one hundred people. Part of the money was indeed invested in the object, because, for example, almost all windows were replaced. There is still foil on some of them.
The building after the former boarding school in Zgierz Tvn24
However, the work ceased, and on February 27, 2019, the place was called to the place Municipal Policewho got information that smoke is coming out of the basement of the building. The officers – as TVN24.pl says – commandant Dariusz Bereżewski found a man burning cables and waste in the basement. – It was the likely owner of the company. He told us then, “it was over that he was counting financially.” Since then, we have not had contact with him – he said. The procedure of taking over the object by the bailiff began. After a few years, in mid -February last year, the building was finally auctioned, it was valued at over six million zlotys. It failed.
The case is also dealt with by city guards from ZgierzTvn24
Three potential reasons that the investment failed
We managed to reach a former member of the management board of Aurum Medica. He confirmed that a social welfare home was to be built there for a hundred people. He also told us what has happened over the last few years. – We bought it in 2016 from a private person for about five million zlotys – it was a really symbolic amount for such a palace. Earlier, no one wanted to buy it, and this lady for some reason put it for sale – a former co -owner of the company who wants to be anonymous told us. – We took an investment loan in the amount of PLN 17 million in one of the large banks for the revitalization of the building and two million rotary loans for VAT. For the first two years it was diamond, we had a brilliant general contractor who really did a lot. The so -called “mining foundations” – because they were sought. They were strengthened, powerful work. The facade was supplemented, new windows and the entire roof sheathing were made. We led two wings from three to a closed raw state and you could already start finishing work – a former member of the board said. He added that he had already planned future employment in a nursing home, equipment and how the institution is to function in the future. However, in 2017 “there was a disaster”. – One of the three potential reasons is to stop us due to the VAT refund – two million as part of the inspection, which lasted a year. The second reason was the delay of construction works in relation to the schedule adopted with the bank for several months, because during the mining of the foundations, ground waters struck and flooded everything, the entire basement. We had to build drainage – wells. The third reason is the takeover of the bank that gave us a loan by another institution. Then we lost contact with our credit guardian, he did not speak, he did not answer the phone. The treasury returned us after a year, when there was nothing to collect from the loan – he described the reasons. He also informed that until the loan was suspended in the building “nine million zlotys were inserted” from 17 million. It all happened in mid-2018, before the explosion of the Covid-19 pandemic. All in all, as the former member of the management board tells us, there were six owners (partners) of the company. – At some point you had to put the company in a state of bankruptcy, a conversation with partners took place and some were very opposite. There was no place for me anymore, it was in mid -2019 and I still don't know what happened with this place and company – summed up a member of the board of Aurum Medica.
The effects of the fire of the former boarding school in ZgierzCity Guard in Zgierz
The effects of the fire of the former boarding school in ZgierzCity Guard in Zgierz
Unsecured building, subsequent interventions
In recent months, the guards again appeared in the building at Kuropatwińska in connection with the unsecured area. The management of the Primary School, which is next to it, asked for interventions. – Anyone can enter here, such a building attracts children and it is dangerous, which is why we decided to take care of it – informs the commander of the Zgierz formation Dariusz Bereżewski. The guards decided to reach the company or the person who owns the building and the area where he stands. And here a lot of “interesting” information appeared. – We got to the company, this is the company's ZOO president and other people – we are already sure – these are the so -called poles. The president is already dead, she was 94 years old, the second person who is a proxy is also very age and is 92 years old – says Bereżewski. The guards have repeatedly tried to contact the company's owners, but to no avail. – To this day, nobody received correspondence, she was coming back to us, the city guard from Łódź also helped us, unfortunately also to no avail – argues the head of Zgierz Guardians.
The building of the former boarding school with Zgierz Tvn24
The company's headquarters in the block
As we have determined, the seat of Aurum Medica is registered in Łódź in an apartment in a block of flats at social street. A young woman opened the door to us. Asked if she is the owner of Aurum Medica, she firmly replied that “no”. She added, however, that there is no day that letters from various institutions addressed to the company do not come to her. – When we bought this apartment, the land and mortgage register was checked, all entries and nothing bad there was. We bought this apartment from a private person, not from the company, she was an older woman. But we get the letters all the time since we moved here – the owner of the apartment noted in an interview with our journalist.
The headquarters of the company, which owns the building in Zgierz, is registered in a block of flats at social street in ŁódźTvn24
We also agreed the address of the second woman, whom the commander of the Zgierz City Guard previously spoke – the company's 92 -year -old proxy. The woman lives in the Rzgów in Łódź. The property is tightly surrounded by a fence, you can see it very much. Despite a few attempts to call the intercom, nobody left.
The company's proxy is to live in Rzgów near ŁódźTvn24
Bailiff without contact with the owner
The building is still the owner of Aurum Medica, but the debt creditor is now a private company that took it from the bank. The enforcement application from the bank, which claimed its receivables, received the bailiff during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
A year later, the bailiff at the District Court in Zgierz entered the property with an expert to value it.
But the bailiff Jakub Paś has not been in contact with the owners for several years. – I can not tell you much, only what results from the land and mortgage registers, i.e. – I conduct proceedings, the property is busy and that's all – said Paś. He asked for a possible “contact path to company owners” if they could contact them. – Fortunately, I had contact with these owners earlier, thanks to which this execution is formally acceptable. This contact definitely ended without any response years ago – said the bailiff in a further conversation. Paś added that the building last year was priced at over six million 400 thousand zlotys, but nobody wanted to buy it. The new auction has not been planned. “In the current situation, I don't think it is ever planned,” he said.
The building of the former boarding school in Zgierz Tvn24
Conservator of monuments: I will not allow demolition
We ask the Łódź Provincial Conservator of Monuments about the building at Kuropatwińska in Zgierz. – This is a complex of buildings, which is in the municipal and provincial register of monuments, so these are forms that do not give us a very large maneuver of action. However, we will definitely determine what the scope of damage is, what really happened there, what was the cause of this fire, I know that the fire appeared in three places, so there should be no doubt about it – said the voivodship conservator of monuments dr. Anna Michalak. – We also have examples of such investors from Łódź who are buying monuments and there is such a practice that a loan is taken to renovate the historic building. This is a bit of a carousel as in Vata that you take a loan under the mortgage of the monument to buy another monument and take another loan under that mortgage. Was it in this case, I don't know? I must say that this is another example that our law is not keeping up with the creativity of people who use the gaps and benefit from it, unfortunately – she said.
The building of the former boarding school in Zgierz Tvn24
– If someone thought to undress this building, I can say that we would not agree to it – assured Dr. Anna Michalak.
Source of the main photo: Przemysław Jagielski