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PEOPLE FROM THE SECRET NETWORK There were as many as 31 people in Josip Rimac's corrupt octopus, more and more officials are mentioned USKOK has now covered a number of cases of rigging the state professional exam through Rimac By: Željko PetrušićPosted: August 28, 2020 7:39 am Josipa Rimac (middle) Josipa Rimac (middle) Hanza Media Facebook Twitter Messenger E-mail RELATED NEWS Josipa Rimac and Gabrijela Žalac EXTENDED INVESTIGATION Josipa Rimac presented her defense, Žalac without comment on the accusations that she was arranging the state exam for her brother NEW DETAILS In expanding the investigation against Josip Rimac, Uskok also mentions Ćorić's assistant as a defendant The latest USKOK expansion of the investigation against the former state secretary in the Ministry of Administration and former Knin mayor Josip Rimac did not bring new spectacular accusations, but it included many very resounding names of former and current state officials and heads of individual institutions and public companies. Thus, among others, although USKOK investigated her because of the Mercedes affair and the possible rigging of tenders in the Ministry of Regional Development and EU Funds, former Minister Gabrijela Žalac eventually "fell", according to unofficial information, for encouraging Josip Rimac to ensure her brother passed state professional exam whether or not he deserved it. Rimac reportedly made an effort to do her that favor. USKOK has included a number of other such cases of rigging the state professional exam through Josip Rimac. An investigation has also been launched against the state secretary in the Ministry of Veterans' Affairs, Ivan Vukić , who is charged, Jutarnji list has learned, that he arranged for the exam to be taken by the driver of Minister Tomislav Medved . In addition to him, USKOK has launched an investigation against Nevenka Benic , also a state secretary in the same ministry. Kinship Arranging the exam through Josip Rimac and her current connections in the Ministry of Administration - at least one employee of that ministry is co-accused - is also charged against the former director of the Police Academy, now retired Dubravko Novak , director of the Customs Administration Hrvoje Covic , head of the Ministry of Health Velibor Drakulic. , advisors to the Minister of Agriculture Anita Validžić and the Deputy Mayor of Gvozd Marija Idžan , as well as to the famous Zagreb goldsmith Paško Dodić . Several unknown persons who took the state professional exam through this connection were also co-accused. After criminal prosecution was launched against HEP Board member Saša Dujmić at the end of June for illegally hiring sister Josip Rimac into the HEP system, USKOK has now extended the charge to HEP-ODS Director Nikola Šulentić . Finally, the expansion of the investigation includes the current Assistant Minister of Environmental Protection and Energy Domagoj Validžić, otherwise the husband of the already mentioned Anita Validžić, who is related to Rimac. Validzic was relieved of his duties by the government yesterday. USKOK accuses him of trying to obtain favorable decisions for CEMP regarding the higher purchase price of electricity at the request and in agreement with Josip Rimac, urging the owners of the wind farm first in HROTE, and then, when they did not meet it, through the ministry. to which he worked. In its statement, USKOK stated that, in fact, the arrest of Josip Rimac prevented the Ministry from making a decision that would favor CEMP. Josipa Rimac, who has been in the Remetinec remand prison since the end of May, was brought to the USKOK premises in Vlaška Street yesterday due to a new expansion of the investigation. As her lawyer Lidija Horvat stated after the interrogation , Rimac stated that she did not feel guilty and presented her defense, but did not want to answer the prosecution's questions. Influence on witnesses Lawyer Horvat complained about USKOK's actions, pointing out that the decision to expand the investigation was made again two days before the court hearing on the extension of the pre-trial detention, as was done at the end of June. Josipi Rimac's pre-trial detention was extended in June due to possible influence on witnesses by two months, so it expires tomorrow. The competent investigating judge of the Zagreb County Court should decide today whether there is a danger that Rimac will influence the newly proposed witnesses, "resulting" from the last expansion of the investigation. It depends on whether he will extend the remand prison again or let her defend herself from freedom. By the way, this affair now covers a total of 32 people. The biggest and most serious charges against Josip Rimac were "opened" in the basic investigation, launched in late May. One count of the indictment relates to favoring the bosses of CEMP, still unavailable to Milenko Bašić and Dragan Stipić, in connection with the issuance of various permits and approvals for their Krš - Pađena wind farm. She is accused of influencing the co- suspected heads of Croatian Forests Krunoslav Jakupčić and Ivan Melvan to withdraw previously issued negative opinions from the technical inspections for the wind farm, and of promising them all the necessary help from the Ministry of State Property, which she did not receive. According to USKOK, it also influenced the President of the Management Board of HERA, Tomislav Jureković, to ensure the adoption of appropriate acts, which enabled Bašić's company to acquire the status of a privileged producer of electricity. Bribe € 45,000 For these services, she agreed with the heads of CEMP on a bribe of 45,000 euros, which was to be paid to her through her sister, from a brokerage commission for concluding an insurance policy for the wind farm. There is also a point related to "lobbying" services for entrepreneurs Josip Ravlić and Ante Sladić who are engaged in cattle breeding and they emphasized that through the adoption of amendments to the Decree on the lease of forest land owned by the Republic of Croatia increase incentives. They also wanted to lease agricultural land in the Gračac municipality through Rimac. According to the indictment, Josipa Rimac made considerable efforts to benefit them, agreeing with them to pay bribes, both for herself and for other people who needed their help. According to the agreement, she was to receive two plots of land in the Rogoznica area with a total size of about 10,000 square meters and a certain amount of money in cash. She handed over 10,000 euros to Ružica Njavro , chief of staff of the Minister of Agriculture and a member of the Management Board of the Agency for Payments in Agriculture, and agreed to receive another half a million kuna from these entrepreneurs after making decisions in their favor. The mayor of Gračac, Nataša Turbić, also forwarded 10,000 euros from the same entrepreneurs for arranging the land lease. Josip Rimac is also charged with asking the assistant minister of economy, co-defendant Ana Mandac , to take all necessary measures to grant aid to the crafts of her friends and relatives in Knin in the process of awarding grants from that ministry. In return, one of them decorated her house in Vodice at prices much lower than the market. Officials involved in the affair are waiting for a quick dismissal A number of government officials are involved in a new phase of the investigation into former State Secretary Josip Rimac, and are mostly suspected of asking the former Knin mayor for help in securing passage for state professional exams for several people. They can all expect dismissals, which was announced yesterday by Prime Minister Andrej Plenković. - According to what we could understand, the investigation is talking about an additional 18 defendants. We support the work of DORH, USKOK, PNUSKOK, all independent institutions and we expect further procedures to be carried out thoroughly, within a reasonable time - he said, adding that those who are determined to be responsible and accountable, and announced that The government, if it is about some people who have certain political duties, should withdraw political moves from that side. Minister of Justice and Administration Ivan Malenica announced that he would ask the State Attorney's Office for a list of people covered by the new branch of the investigation in order to be able to act in accordance with regulations related to officials, who cannot be removed politically. The government unofficially says that they will make these decisions quickly. - At first glance, it seems that these are acts that were done at a lower level, about which the ministers are not and have no knowledge. We condemn any such form of corruption and we will resolutely fight against it - they say from the Banski dvori. Along with Domagoj Validžić, who was relieved of his duties as Assistant Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development Tomislav Ćorić at a closed session of the Government yesterday at his own request, the investigation also included his wife Anita Validžić , an adviser in the cabinet of Agriculture Minister Marija Vučković . There is also the former Minister of Regional Development and EU Funds, Gabrijela Žalac, who asked for an exam for her brother, and according to the suspicions of illegal employment, the director of HEP ODS, Nikola Šulentić, is suspected. The list also includes two state secretaries in the Ministry of Croatian Veterans, Ivan Vukić , who allegedly asked for the driver's exam for Minister Tomo Medved , and a longtime official in that Ministry, State Secretary Nevenka Benić. By the way, the day before yesterday, the bear was seen in front of the Government entering the official car and driving himself, without a driver. Assistant Minister of Finance Zdravko Marić and Director of the Customs Administration Hrvoje Čović are also suspected, who also, it is suspected, asked Rimac to arrange the state professional exam. The Secretary General of the Ministry of Health, Velibor Drakulić, is also suspected of the same act, as is Dubravko Novak , who retired on June 16 after 27 years of work in the Ministry of the Interior as the head of the Police Academy. The investigation also includes Marija Idžan , HDZ's deputy mayor of Gvozd, and the well-known Zagreb goldsmith Paško Dodić . ( Goran Penic )