Uskok amended the indictment in the Fimi media affair. If convicted, HDZ and Sanader will have to pay back almost 40m kunas
At the end of the process, USKOK specified the amounts in question
LAST CHANGE: JUL 7, 2020
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Only two days after the relative victory in the parliamentary elections, the Croatian Democratic Union, ie its representative, appeared before the Judicial Council to continue the outcome of the Fimi Media affair. The trial is nearing its end but has not been completed because USKOK decided to amend the indictment today.
In this affair, HDZ is accused of participating in the extraction of millions of kunas from public companies. Part of the money was allegedly taken by former Prime Minister and HDZ President Ivo Sanader , while part of the money, according to the indictment, was used to fill the party's black funds.
HOW MUCH MONEY DO THEY HAVE TO RETURN?
USKOK specified today that Sanader kept around HRK 15.3 million from the money extracted from public companies, while slightly less than HRK 24.3 million was forwarded to the Croatian Democratic Union. The prosecutor's office is now asking them to return so much money to the state, because it is an illegally obtained profit.
All defendants and former Prime Minister and HDZ chief Ivo Sanader and Mladen Barisic , former head of the Customs Administration and HDZ treasurer, and Ratko Macek , former HDZ spokesman, and Branka Pavosevic , who must from 2003 to 2009 she managed the client's accounting. Therefore, the trial is due to continue on July 17.
BARISIC: 'I WORKED FOR THE BENEFIT OF HDZ'
In his defense, Mladen Barišić admitted that public companies paid Fimi Media for marketing services that were not performed or that the bills were inflated. He claims that he agreed to all that because of Sanader, who was authoritative. Still, he believed he was working for the good of the party.
At the first trial, all the defendants in this affair, including the party itself, were found guilty. The reasoning of the verdict stated that "a system was created which was not only favored by the accused, but by all those who knew about it, but kept silent or turned their heads."
WILL THE PENALTIES BE STRICTER THAN THE FIRST?
The first verdict sentenced Sanader to a total of nine years in prison, Barisic to three years, Branka Pavosevic to a year and a half in prison, Fimi Media owner Nevenka Jurak , who died in the meantime, to two years in prison, while Ratko Macek was given a suspended sentence. a sentence of one year with a probation period of four years. The Croatian Democratic Union was fined five million kunas.
In October 2015, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Croatia quashed the entire verdict and remanded the case for retrial
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