Wednesday, 27. May 2009
Action against Prof.Christer Bengs
dieter vogt, 17:07h
Christer Bengs,TKK Helsinki.
You probably know that your colleague Prof. Christer Bengs owns properties in Estonia, you may not know how badly he treats those who do business with him. My Estonian company, Balti Domus OÜ (trading as Primavera Restaurant) made the mistake of renting one of his properties in Pärnu.
At the 4th.of January 2008 I signed a contract to lease from Mr Bengs, for a period of 5 years, restaurant premises in central Pärnu. As soon as I had the keys and started preparations to open the restaurant we found that the premises, as handed over, were absolutely not as promised in the contract and Mr Bengs was therefore in breach of the contract. I was required to spend a lot of money ( about one million Estonian Kroons ) making the repairs and replacements needed to make the building suitable for the contracted purpose and open my restaurant.
Mr Bengs would not discuss the issues.
He has, however, done his best to make my life hell. He tried to have one court order made for repossession, a second application was intended to disconnect me from the water supply and then he made a third in an attempt to force me to pay for required fire security works which are his responsibility as the owner.
Justice was done and all 3 applications failed.
The Restaurant has been closed since the first of November 2008 and I have lost my business because the licence has been revoked from the Pärnu Fire Department due to dangerous stoves, which he has refused to replace, but he still sends me Monthly Invoices for the rent. I travelled to Espoo again at the 21st May, to meet him, but he neither answered the phone nor talked to me. After my friend called from his phone, Mr.Bengs' wife called back after 1 hour but then she pushes the phone down as well.
The court has made it clear that they expect us to negotiate a compromise, but since the first day of rental, Mr Bengs has avoided any discussion of the matter. He prefers to leave the court to spend their valuable time in producing a solution. I even took 2 times the trouble to visit Finland hoping to find him to negotiate an agreement for the court to ratify while he was not to be found, his complaint resulted in a request for me to be interviewed by Mr Knutti of Espoo Police Violent Crimes Division for threats.
Having explained the true situation to the Police I have heard nothing more.
He and his Lawyer also has not appeared in 2 Court appointments on 15th February and 15 April. Next court case is in early July, I hope that if he does not appear this time as well, the court is making decision in my favour without him.
Since first having problems I have met the restaurants proprietor from 2007, and his predecessor who had the premises for several years before that. They both confirm that the stoves were dangerous, the kitchen equipment was defective and the maintenance of the building was neglected by Mr Bengs. They both lost their livelihoods as a result, and both found, just like I did, that Mr Bengs would not discuss the issues or take any action to fulfil his responsibilities.
This shows that he has repeated the same deceitful trick on all of us, over a period of at least 8 years.
You may agree that your colleague’s behaviour is a disgrace.
You probably know that your colleague Prof. Christer Bengs owns properties in Estonia, you may not know how badly he treats those who do business with him. My Estonian company, Balti Domus OÜ (trading as Primavera Restaurant) made the mistake of renting one of his properties in Pärnu.
At the 4th.of January 2008 I signed a contract to lease from Mr Bengs, for a period of 5 years, restaurant premises in central Pärnu. As soon as I had the keys and started preparations to open the restaurant we found that the premises, as handed over, were absolutely not as promised in the contract and Mr Bengs was therefore in breach of the contract. I was required to spend a lot of money ( about one million Estonian Kroons ) making the repairs and replacements needed to make the building suitable for the contracted purpose and open my restaurant.
Mr Bengs would not discuss the issues.
He has, however, done his best to make my life hell. He tried to have one court order made for repossession, a second application was intended to disconnect me from the water supply and then he made a third in an attempt to force me to pay for required fire security works which are his responsibility as the owner.
Justice was done and all 3 applications failed.
The Restaurant has been closed since the first of November 2008 and I have lost my business because the licence has been revoked from the Pärnu Fire Department due to dangerous stoves, which he has refused to replace, but he still sends me Monthly Invoices for the rent. I travelled to Espoo again at the 21st May, to meet him, but he neither answered the phone nor talked to me. After my friend called from his phone, Mr.Bengs' wife called back after 1 hour but then she pushes the phone down as well.
The court has made it clear that they expect us to negotiate a compromise, but since the first day of rental, Mr Bengs has avoided any discussion of the matter. He prefers to leave the court to spend their valuable time in producing a solution. I even took 2 times the trouble to visit Finland hoping to find him to negotiate an agreement for the court to ratify while he was not to be found, his complaint resulted in a request for me to be interviewed by Mr Knutti of Espoo Police Violent Crimes Division for threats.
Having explained the true situation to the Police I have heard nothing more.
He and his Lawyer also has not appeared in 2 Court appointments on 15th February and 15 April. Next court case is in early July, I hope that if he does not appear this time as well, the court is making decision in my favour without him.
Since first having problems I have met the restaurants proprietor from 2007, and his predecessor who had the premises for several years before that. They both confirm that the stoves were dangerous, the kitchen equipment was defective and the maintenance of the building was neglected by Mr Bengs. They both lost their livelihoods as a result, and both found, just like I did, that Mr Bengs would not discuss the issues or take any action to fulfil his responsibilities.
This shows that he has repeated the same deceitful trick on all of us, over a period of at least 8 years.
You may agree that your colleague’s behaviour is a disgrace.
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