The prime minister's nervousness is not difficult to understand. It is a month until the election, the investigation is getting deeper and deeper into the circle of his associates
The campaign is in full swing, and an investigation full of suspicions about painful, corrupt details has exploded in the public
Two years later, a month before the election, pressured by a corruption scandal involving a number of senior officials in his government, Plenković is once again miraculously creative.
When he is really pressed against the wall, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković has a habit of firing miraculous statements. Two years ago, in the midst of the Borg affair, which was eventually paid for by the resignation of his close associate, Economy Minister Martina Dalic , the Prime Minister literally wiped his sweat with a white handkerchief in front of a press release.
People who participated in the drafting of the law was restructured Agrokor to as consultants in the restructuring process earned millions in fees, has called it - to return the money! "Here I call on them, to make a gesture, to return the money to the company in addition to the costs and compensation received by Mr. Ramljak ," Plenković said as the public listened in disbelief, adding that this would be the end of the story of profiteering. "It is out of the question that I, politically, and even less the Government or HDZ, suffer damage or are responsible for it," said the Prime Minister. The money was not returned.
INVESTIGATION TO ORDER
Two years later, a month before the election, pressured by a corruption scandal involving a number of senior officials in his government, Plenković is once again miraculously creative. The first is literally - in a press release! - wished the DORH investigation against its main political opponents. "As for the activities that are alluded to, which are of a corrupt nature, I expect the bodies, both the police and the State Attorney's Office, to prosecute those related to the SDP as well," the prime minister said. European Capital of Culture in Rijeka. "I expect the same standards for everyone. And I don't see any spectacular actions ", the Prime Minister was angry that the State Attorney's Office had not yet met his expectations.
The Prime Minister was furious yesterday as well, when asked if he was worried about the leak of information from USKOK investigations, which is the reason for the sudden arrests in the wind farm affair. He concluded that a small circle of people, either from the DORH or the police, could have this information, and threatened: “Those who are responsible for this must find within their services who are the ones who practically compromise their actions. I think it's a disaster. " The Prime Minister is right here, in principle. But who are the ones who appointed leading people in the State Attorney's Office and the police in order to establish an efficient system, from which information is now leaking that, as Plenković said, "practically compromises actions"? The parliamentary majority led by the HDZ and the Government. Both the party and the government are led by Prime Minister Plenković.
THE ROLE OF TENA MISETIC
The nervousness radiating from Plenković is not difficult to understand. The campaign is in full swing, and an investigation full of suspicions about painful, corrupt details, and with a number of well-known names from the top of his government, has exploded in the public. As part of the investigation, his close associate Tena Misetic , the deputy head of the prime minister's office, will even be questioned . Namely, Mišetić also heads the Service for Public Policies and Support to the Prime Minister and from that function participates in sending regulations to public consultation.
So it obviously had a role in releasing into the public consultation procedure the Decree on the lease of forest land, around which hundreds of thousands of kunas in bribes were mentioned - while the investigators were listening. According to investigators, the plan of the circle around Josip Rimac was to release the Decree for public discussion, in which changes that bring great financial benefits to her associates would be proposed personally by the Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture.
With the strength of expert authority, they hoped, the Decree could - in the chaotic times of the election campaign and the technical Government - be adopted in exactly the form that suited them. "Ružica contacted Tena to release the Decree in public consultation with all the shortcomings", is the famous sentence that, according to investigators, Josipa Rimac uttered to entrepreneur Ante Sladić on May 14 , while the nation was getting used to the beginning of a "new normal" after the epidemic coronavirus.
FAT COMMISSIONS AND KEY ANSWERS
The day after, on Friday, the Decree was in public consultation. Parliament was dissolved on Monday. Nine days later, Rimac discovered a bug in her car, launching dramatic arrests in the middle of the election campaign.
Tena Mišetić will, therefore, have to answer several very important questions for investigators - but also for the public. Why did she give the green light to let the Regulation into public consultation even though she knew that in a few days the Government would become technical? Did she know about its "shortcomings" that Rimac talked about and was she aware of the plan to "correct" these shortcomings and adopt the Decree in a form that would bring profit to entrepreneurs and all those involved in "lobbying" before the formation of the new government? fat commissions? After these answers, it will be clearer whether the investigation will go deeper into the circle of close associates of the Prime Minister. And is Plenković nervous only because of the awkward date of unraveling this painful corruption story.
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