Former journalist of the Necenzurirano (“Uncensored”) web portal, Vesna Vuković, who took over the ruling party the Freedom Movement’s public relations and promotions department in August, has still not explained the money transfers made by the Gen-I energy company to her former company SEE M. & C., which happened during the period when the energy company in question was headed by the current Prime Minister and Vuković’s current boss, Robert Golob. She told the N1 web portal on the 9th of August that she would clarify the circumstances of the transfers in about two weeks’ time when she would have made all the necessary arrangements for her transfer, but to date, she has still not done so. However, we have learned from reliable sources that Vesna Vuković recently bought an apartment in Krtina near Domžale that is worth 240 thousand euros, so perhaps her explanation is not even necessary anymore?!
If the public has so far been wondering and asking for an explanation of the circumstances of the financing of the SEE M. & C. company for business consultancy, founded (in 2017) and headed by Vesna Vuković until May 2021 by the Gen-I energy company, which was, at the time, still under the leadership of the current Prime Minister Robert Golob, the following information may be more than enough for the public to form its own explanation. Every loyalty is dearly rewarded, and according to reliable information, Vuković has now earned enough to afford a 240-thousand-euro apartment in Krtina near Domžale in exchange for her loyalty to Golob. We have also asked her about it directly but have not yet received a reply.
It is still unclear why the former company of now-ex journalist of the Necenzurirano web portal, Vesna Vuković, who took over the public relations and promotion department of the current ruling party, the Freedom Movement (Gibanje Svoboda) in August, received funding from the Gen-I energy company in 2013, during the time the latter was headed by Robert Golob. According to unofficial information from the Siol web portal, the Gen-I energy company had transferred 103 thousand euros to Vuković’s former company since its establishment in 2017, and the most recent transfer, in the amount of 3,660 euros, happened in January of 2022, when Vuković was no longer associated with the company. In addition, Vuković’s company was also on the payroll of the Gorenje company, which, unofficially, transferred 60 thousand euros to the former journalist’s company, which also received transfers from the consultancy centre Brio, which is owned by the current Minister of Finance, Klemen Boštjančič. The latter transferred 34 thousand euros to the company SEE M. & C.
Given that a modern villa apartment complex was only recently built in Krtina near Domžale, it is possible that Vuković purchased one of the apartments in the building in question. There were ten apartments available (which are all of the apartments in the villa in question), and all of them have already been sold. The prices of the apartments in the new building are around 2,992 euros per square metre, which means that for 240 thousand euros, Vuković could have easily afforded an apartment that is just over 80 square meters big.
And just as the alleged “cash rewards” are not surprising, neither is her move to politics, to the party of Robert Golob. The web portal Necenzurirano, which is owned by the media tycoon Martin Odlazek, has been carrying out contract killings for three years, bypassing all journalistic standards, and now it is time to repay the media – Vuković got her “payment” in the form of employment with the Freedom Movement party, where she now handles public relations and promotion of the party ahead of the upcoming local and presidential elections. The importance of her well-deserved role in the party was made clear by the news published on the N1 web portal, which wrote that on the day before Marta Kos dropped out of the presidential race, she was reportedly called by the party’s head of public relations and marketing, who told Kos that the Freedom Movement party expects her to withdraw. Among the reasons for this decision, she allegedly cited the low support in opinion polls and, in particular, the documents about her alleged past that had been circulating in the public domain.
Let us remind you that the web portal Necenzurirano, or the Providentia d.o.o. company, owes the Financial Administration of the Republic of Slovenia, meaning the taxpayers, exactly 290,293.00 euros. It is also alleged that it has had all its transaction accounts in the country blocked for quite some time now and that the Financial Administration has already issued a decision to block all the movable assets of the company. The ingenuity of the Necenzurirano web portal and its journalists has also been reported on in the past by the journalist Luka Perš who, after a year since the establishment of the company Providentia d.o.o., upon checking the company’s profit and loss account, found that the company, which employs no one, had generated a total income of 164,472.45 euros.
At that time, aggressive tax planning was already suspected due to the roughly equal amount of expenditure and the highly unusual tax payments. The facts that came to light were not surprising, just as the fact that the former journalists of the Necenzurirano web portal had saved enough to buy their own properties is not surprising. They are also private friends of the current Prime Minister, having been seen on several occasions at Golob’s home. Corruption has now gone a step further with Vuković in Golob’s party office and could be the subject of a new commission of inquiry in the National Assembly.
Tanja Brkić
