Hedl investigates: Where did Penavi get the HRK 75,676.22 in cash that he returned to the state because he gave up his doctorate?
A telegram correspondent from Slavonia is investigating a new interesting case around a former HDZ member
LAST CHANGE: JUN 14, 2020
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Former HDZ mayor of Vukovar Ivan Penava (46) was supposed to return serious money to the state budget in November 2017, more than 75,000 kunas. However, in his property cards, which he filled out from November 16, 2016 to July 21, 2019 (the last card he filled out), there is no such information in the “obligations” section.
The "obligations" section is empty, so the new acquisition of Miroslav Škora 's Homeland Movement is one of the few officials without any loans or debts. The amount we mention, tens of thousands of euros, is not, however, a credit obligation to a bank or some kind of loan from a private person.
Penavi, as a postgraduate doctoral student, management at the Faculty of Economics in Osijek, Fund for Reconstruction and Development of the City of Vukovar, in 2010 and 2011 approved reimbursement of tuition fees in the total amount of 44,200 kuna, in accordance with the terms of the competition. At that time, Ivan Penava, a professor of physical education and health, was the director of the School of Economics in Vukovar, with a monthly salary of around HRK 8,750.
Hedl investigates: Penava returned 75,676.22 kunas in cash to the state because he gave up his studies. Where did his money come from?
HE DROPPED OUT OF HIS DOCTORATE
On the official website of the city of Vukovar from 2016, the mayor of Penava boasted in his resume that he was "motivated by the needs of the workplace and his own desire to expand knowledge, enrolled in doctoral studies at the Faculty of Economics in 2010", where he said doctoral thesis on the topic: Compliance of vocational education with the labor market ”.
He also boasted that he is the author of several published works in the field.
However, unlike his new political idol Miroslav Škora, who received his doctorate at the end of December 2017 at the Faculty of Economics in Osijek on the topic "Models of management and distribution of music industry revenues in the context of digitalization", Penava is at the same faculty, despite "his own wish" for the expansion of knowledge ”, as well as the statement that he“ only had to defend his final doctoral thesis ”, gave up that intention.
RETURNED THE FEE RECEIVED
At least that is what the answer we received from the Fund for the Reconstruction and Development of the City of Vukovar, which Penavi paid a total of 44,200 kunas in two years for tuition fees.
”According to Mr. Penava's contract, the deadline for fulfilling his obligations did not expire, but due to the performance of the duty of the Mayor of the City of Vukovar since 2014, and the impossibility of attending studies, Mr. Penava, at his request, returned the received fee in November 2017. interest to the Fund for Reconstruction and Development of the City of Vukovar, so the Fond-Penava contract has been fully complied with, ”reads the response that Telegram received from that institution last Friday.
Upon our additional inquiry about the interest rate, the President of the Fund, Dr. sc. Liljana Blažević explained that Penava had to pay interest in the amount of HRK 17,479.98 for the first amount of HRK 22,100, received in 2010, and HRK 13,861.64 for the same amount paid to him a year later. The total interest, therefore, amounted to HRK 31,341.62, which with a principal of HRK 44,200 makes those ten thousand euros, or more precisely HRK 75,541.62.
THE FUND SAID THAT THEY DID NOT HAVE PENAVA'S PAYMENT SLIP
The Fund for Reconstruction and Development of the City of Vukovar said that they did not have Penava's payment slip, which would show that he paid the mentioned amount to the state budget, because it should have been done by direct transfer to the state treasury, but that next week they will try to find a clue. that the money ended up there.
In the available archives of the Fund for Reconstruction and Development of the City of Vukovar, information can be found that Penava in 2010 was one of 52 people who received money for doctoral studies, but, among several others, belonged to the category of those with the highest approved amount.
The postgraduate year of study at the Faculty of Economics in Osijek amounted to 34,000 kuna, and the Fund approved 65 percent of the funds, so that Penavi was then allocated 22,100 kuna. By the way, the amounts paid by the Fund for postgraduate studies ranged from 3,700 kuna upwards, and it was Penava, as well as several other postgraduates, who received the highest amount.
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LATER, HOWEVER, THEY SENT IT TO US
It is an interesting fact that by being elected mayor of Vukovar (in July 2014), Penava became a member of the Management Board of the Fund for Reconstruction and Development of Vukovar on September 25, 2014, and is still in that position today.
We asked Ivan Penava to provide us with a payment slip which shows that in November 2017 he paid the amount he received from the Fund into the state budget, but he turned a deaf ear to our request, as he usually does when it comes to Telegram. However, on a non-working Saturday, June 13 at 2:11 pm, probably by Penava's order, a payment slip arrived from the Fund for Reconstruction and Development of the City of Vukovar, where he is a member of the management board. It can be seen from it that on November 6, 2017, Penava actually paid HRK 75,676.22 into the state budget, because on that day, with interest, that was exactly his debt.
PENAVA PAID 75 THOUSAND KUNA IN CASH
The submitted payment slip reveals one interesting thing. Penava paid the mentioned amount in cash at Addiko bank! According to the specification written on the payment slip by the cashier, Penava took 20 banknotes up to one thousand kuna, 50 from 500 kuna and 155 from 200 kuna from his pocket, ie a bundle of a total of 225 banknotes in the total amount of 76,000 kuna. Why he paid in cash and not from a bank account is unknown, but that pleasure cost him an additional $ 150 in postage.
Considering that none of Penava's property cards mentions the amount that should have been paid into the state budget in the "liabilities" section, Telegram turned to the Commission for the Prevention of Conflicts of Interest for interpretation. From there, they explained to us that, in accordance with Article 8, paragraph 7 of the Law on the Prevention of Conflicts of Interest, officials are obliged to state data on income and data on liabilities in the statement of assets.
JUSTIFICATION OF THE COMMISSION
"If the obligation arose before the mandate, the officials are obliged to state the information about it in the property card they submit on the occasion of taking office and to show the stated obligation in all subsequent cards until the obligation is settled. After the obligation is settled, the officials are obliged to submit a report on the assets at the end of the year in which the obligation was settled. With regard to one-off receipts, officials are obliged to state in the statement of assets the receipts paid to them during the performance of their duties, at the end of the year in which they received the receipts ", reads the response of the commission.
Regarding the specific case of Ivan Penava, they say that "it is not possible to give a general answer to the question of what information and when the official Ivan Penava should have stated in the submitted reports on property status, without a prior procedure of regular verification and establishing all relevant facts."
Given that Penava, as stated in the Fund for Reconstruction and Development of Vukovar, reimbursed the amount for the costs of studies and given that he gave up his doctorate, in his first property card that he filled out after November 2017, and it was On January 6, 2018, nowhere is that 75,541.62 mentioned.
AN INTERESTING DETAIL FROM THE PROPERTY CARD
However, it is interesting that in relation to Penava's property card, filled out on June 22, 2017, when he showed savings of 20,000 euros, it did not decrease by 10 thousand euros (which is the 75,676.22 kunas that he had to return to the state budget in November 2017) has already increased by 10,000 euros, so the property card from the beginning of 2018 states that Ivan Penava now has 30,000 euros in savings, acquired from "receipts earned from self-employment."
It would be interesting to hear Penava's explanation of how, in just one year, in 2017, he managed to return 75,676.22 kunas and save another 10,000 euros, when the mayor's salary was 17,835.53 kunas that year, while his wife, since 2002 According to the property card, an employee of the state - owned company Borovo earned HRK 3,900 a month.
As there is no other data from the income in the property card, the Penava family, which educates two children and pays for the maintenance of a total of three houses - two in Vukovar of 169 and 110 square meters and one on the island of Vis, 97 square meters, was obviously not easy.
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