ZAGREB, 27 August, 2022 – The Croatian Finance Ministry stated on Saturday it had actively participated in an investigation right into a case involving abuse of belief in doing enterprise and cash laundering in gasoline buying and selling, which resulted within the arrest of a number of individuals on Saturday.

Investigators of the USKOK anti-corruption workplace earlier within the day arrested Damir Škugor, an govt within the INA oil firm, and his father. Additionally arrested have been homeowners of the OMS Upravljanje firm, businessman Goran Husić and Josip Šurjak, president of the Croatian Bar Affiliation.

Marija Ratkić, administration board chair on the Plinara istočne Slavonije gasoline firm, whose supervisory board consists of Damir Škugor, was arrested as effectively for alleged wrongdoing in gasoline buying and selling, which, in response to accessible data, has prompted harm to INA within the quantity of greater than HRK 100 million.

In an announcement issued on Saturday afternoon, the Finance Ministry stated that its companies – the Cash Laundering Prevention Workplace and the Tax Administration’s monetary investigations division – performed an energetic function within the case.