The first part of the official lawsuit No: KR-DO-1412/2916 sent to the State Attorney’s Office of the Republic of Croatia.

December 13, 2018

The first part of the official lawsuit No: KR-DO-1412/2916 sent to the State Attorney’s Office of the Republic of Croatia.
Through several detailed documented chapters, we explained the causes of excessive logging with the basic goal of reselling timber, favoring private entrepreneurs in acquiring undue funds, and links to corrupt, high-ranking representatives of political centers of power.

  • Excessive logging (inspection finding from 2014) 
  • Biomass cogeneration (possible effect on the need for excessive deforestation, consumption, Croatian Energy Market Operator – HROTE) 
  • Croatian Forests Ltd, Forest Management Plan: email as evidence of non – compliance with the approval procedure 
  • Business plans of Croatian Forests Ltd. for 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 
  • Doubt in the systematization of jobs in Croatian Forests Ltd
  • Minutes from the Experts’ Meeting in 2017. 
  • Unnecessary costs related to the lawsuit of the former director of Croatian Forests Ltd Ivan Pavelić for the payment of a disproportionately large bonus 
  • Decisions on the establishment of right-of-use of forest land – wind farms Senj – Lučko 
  • Suspicion of illegal employment in the Administration of the Ministry of Agriculture without a public tender, the signatory of the decision is the Minister of Agriculture Tomislav Tolušić 
  • “Forest Biomass”, suspicious appointment of the director of a company in the process of bankruptcy

On 18th of December 2018, the State Attorney’s Office officially submitted the lawsuit to the Zagreb County State’s Attorney’s Office for further competent proceedings.

“… as an indication of corruption, a petition of the Veterans’ Association VIDRA – Veterans and a social action alleging possible irregularities in the operations of Hrvatske šume d.o.o.. The responsible persons of the Croatian Chamber of Forestry and Wood Technology Engineers, the Faculty of Forestry in Zagreb, Hrvatske šume d.o.o., and the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Energy were also involved…“.

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