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The Council for the Coordination of the Work of the Secret Services should inform the top authorities about corruption Questions are open as to whether USKOK is adjusting the "timing" of arrests to the schedule of political stars, whether it is protecting the secret guests of Kovacevic's club? Andrej Plenković Andrej Plenković Bruno Konjevic / Cropix Posted: September 24, 2020 3:24 pm Facebook Twitter Messenger E-mail Every time things roll awkwardly, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković pulls a tested shield out of his defense arsenal. The one with the capital letters - "I didn't know". This is confirmed again in the Janaf affair. Just behind that shield, he took refuge in October 2017, when Mara Tomašević , the wife of the powerful HDZ Požega-Slavonia County Prefect Alojz Tomašević, reported her violent husband to the police. She then told the media that her husband had been mentally and physically abusing her for years, as well as that she had written in detail about it to party chief Andrej Plenković a few months earlier, but he did not deserve an answer. After the affair broke out, Plenković claimed that her letter "was not brought to his attention". Half a year later, in May 2018, emails from the Borg group leaked to the public in one of the most embarrassing scandals of the first Plenković Government, known as the hotmail scandal. The Prime Minister claimed that he did not know of any secret group that wrote the Agrokor lex in March 2017, nor of the fact that its members later concluded multimillion-dollar advisory contracts with Agrokor’s interim administration. However, documents leaked in the hotmail showed that Plenković met with members of the Borg group at least three times before and during the writing of the lex Agrokor and that they clearly presented to him at one of the initial meetings that he would work for the Government free of charge. Agrokora. And now in the affair, Janaf Plenković re-assessed that the claim "I didn't know" is the strongest barrier against unpleasant questions and even more unpleasant speculations. And the questions are almost eye-popping - how on earth is it possible that in February this year the government will head Janaf, a strategic state-owned company, proposing a man who has been secretly monitored and supervised by USKOK police for half a year and has been a reasonable suspect for three months. receiving an envelope with two million kunas in bribes. Or, does USKOK adjust the "timing" of arrests to the schedule of political stars, does it protect the secret guests of Kovačević's club ...? RELATED NEWS Arrest of those arrested in the Janaf operation THE JANAF CASE Opposition launches parliamentary inquiry commission on DORH work: 'This affair goes to the very top of power' JANAF AFFAIR We find out new details: Why Petek and Kovačević were not arrested immediately at the handover of bribes in the 'Club' This time, Plenković went a step further, stating that he, as Prime Minister, not only does not know but does not want to know what the police and the State Attorney's Office are doing, because that guarantees the independence of their work. The Prime Minister seems to be trying to tell us that in his eyes there is a well-founded suspicion that he is the director of Janaf - a state-owned company that owns oil pipelines, oil depots, terminals, ie the entire oil pipeline system that supplies refineries in Croatia and five other Central and Southeast European countries. - severely corrupt, a matter of the same rank as, for example, the suspicion that the head of accounting of the municipality of Podcrkavlje is trying to "stir up" some municipal money to his private account. The Prime Minister is therefore trying to convince us that corruption in Janaf is a matter exclusively for the police and the State Attorney's Office, while keeping silent that it is also a first-class issue of national security that the Prime Minister must know about. And about which, as soon as a well-founded suspicion arose, Minister of the Interior Božinović had to inform him (and probably did) . He had to be informed about it by the intelligence services because the protection of national security is their basic job. Already in November 2019, when the entrepreneur Krešo Petek went to Kovačević's "club" with that envelope worth two million kuna, Janaf had to be the topic of the Council for the Coordination of the Work of the Secret Services. The council includes the Minister of Defense and the Minister of the Interior, ie the Prime Minister's close associates and heads of all secret services. They meet at least once a month. If necessary, they invite the Chief State Attorney, the head of USKOK or the director of the police to the meetings in order to assess whether some of the crimes that the State Attorney's Office is investigating also threaten national security. So, Prime Minister, get serious. Claims that you don’t know sound more transparent than Borg himself.