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Commission launches proceedings vs Plenkovic, Petrov, Bandic
The Croatian Parliament's Conflict of Interest Commission decided on Friday to launch proceedings against Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic and opposition Most party leader Bozo Petrov, for not disclosing their activities during the drafting of the law on state-appointed administration at the Agrokor food and and retail group.
Commission deputy chair, Davorin Ivanjek, said proceedings would be launched against Plenkovic because he had failed to reveal to the public members of an informal >> Pročitaj celu vest na sajtu N1 televizija << group of experts tasked with drafting Lex Agrokor. In addition, he had nominated Ante Ramljak to take up the post of Agrokor emergency administrator, but failed to take action to prevent Ramljak from going on to hire the same people he had worked with on drafting Lex Agrokor as his advisors on the company's management board.
The persons the commission referred to were advisors working for private consulting firms, including Tomislav Matic of Texo Management, Branimir Bricelj and Marko Delic of Altera Savjetovanje, Tonci Korunic of InterCapital, attorney Boris Savoric, and Zoran Besak of the Ethical Financing Co-op (ZEF), Ivanjek said.
Plenkovic is accused of having violated the principles of public office because he was aware that these people and Ramljak had all taken part in the informal e-mail task force to draft the Lex Agrokor bill, and failed to inform the public that the law on Agrokor had been created by an informal group that had held meetings in government offices.
The Commission also launched proceedings against Most party leader Bozo Petrov because at the time - when his party was part of the ruling coalition - he was one of the initiators of the informal task force, and took part in a large number of the group's meetings, and proposed that Bricelj and Besak join the group, said Commission chair Natasa Novakovic.
At the time when Ramljak was appointed, Petrov was aware that Ramljak had been a member of the task force drafting Lex Agrokor and that persons appointed by him as his advisors had also been members of that task force - however, he did not inform the public about it, Novakovic said, adding that the public still does not know what was the exact role played by Most and Bozo Petrov in the process.
The Commission decided not to take action against Interior Minister and Plenkovic's former chief-of-staff Davor Bozinovic in this case, because the documents did not show that the Office of the Prime Minister had in its records the task force's meetings of February 19, 2017 and of March 3 and 16, 2017.
