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  NewsReader

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  A serious crime has been uncovered in the Croatian Privatization Fund (HFP).
  Three of four HFP vice-presidents were arrested on Saturday morning for bribe taking and corruption.
  A total of six persons were arrested in the Maestro Operation that has been conducted for a year by the State Attorney’s Office, USKOK (Office for the Suppression of Corruption and Organized Crime) and the police.
  One suspect is still at large.
  The HFP officials are suspected of a number of embezzlements with the state property and real estates.
  Over the past year alone, they took from the undercover police agents more than EUR one million as bribe.

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  Mesic

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  Centre of corruption:
  President Stjepan Mesic was the first to suggest at a press conference held on Saturday morning that crime was uncovered in the Croatian Privatization Fund. Speaking at a conference in the Journalists’ Centre about transition in the Southeast European countries, the President said that transition was another word for robbery, injustice and fraud. He added that those who had committed robberies in the presence of the government should be criminally prosecuted.

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  Sanader

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  HFP to be closed

  Prime Minister Ivo Sanader announced possible dissolution of the Croatian Privatization Fund and establishment of a new institution.
  He commended the Maestro Operation on behalf of the Government and his own. He would not give names of the arrested HFP officials saying that this would be done by competent bodies, which are expected to carry out a thorough inspection of all business deals made by the suspects, and to check even the earlier closed privatization deals.
  If they establish irregularities, which they probably will, we expect that this illegally purchased property be returned to the Republic of Croatia, Sanader said. An unofficial government source informed that all members of the National Security Council had known about the operation since last September, and that the fight against corruption would not stop with the HFP.
  Similar operations can be expected in other institutions as well.

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  SunFun

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  Mario

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  Srsen

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  Yesterday’s arrests of the high officials of the Croatian Privatization Fund have shaken the very foundations of citizens? trust in state institutions. Three of four vice-presidents of the Croatian Privatization Fund were arrested, Josip Matanovic, Ivan Gotovac and Robert Pesa. Unofficially, Josip Matanovic was the mastermind of the corruption scandal. He was in charge of legal matters and was the eldest Fund official. Ivan Gotovac was in charge of the sales department, and Robert Pesa was in charge of the real estates department.

  The Maestro Operation, which was conducted b the State Attorney?s Office, the USKOK /The Office for the Suppression of Corruption and Organized Crime/, and the police, resulted in the arrest of six persons, while the seventh is still at large. The arrested persons and their abettors are suspected of taking bribe in various misappropriations of funds and state property from undercover police agents over the past year in the amount of over EUR one million.

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  CoolDude

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  The Istrian Democratic Party (IDS) holds that the Maestro Operation, which resulted in the uncovering of a corruption scandal in the Croatian Privatization Fund, is a good way to carry out a revision of the transformation and privatization and to return at least part of the misappropriated property back to the state portfolio.

  “This is also a great satisfaction for the IDS, as we have been warning for a long time of the problems in the Fund”, vice-president of the Party and parliamentary deputy Damir Kajin said to a press conference in Pula.

  The IDS leaders feel that all governments should be held accountable for this corruption scandal and the situation in the Croatian Privatization Fund, and not just the actual ministers and members of the HFP Management Board, Kajin said.
  He hailed the statement given by the Croatian President Stjepan Mesic in which he said that all privatization completed since the establishment of the Fund should be reviewed. 

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  TravelGirl

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