Robert Golob has become the owner of the energy company Star Solar, which has so far received 2.14 million euros, most of it from the state-owned electricity market operator company Borzen. Golob’s ownership is evident from the latest publications on the website of the Commission for the Prevention of Corruption (KPK). Namely, Golob has declared several changes in his assets recently, allegedly due to his amicable divorce from Jana Nemec Golob. What is most odd in this whole situation is that his daughter, Luna Golob, a 19-year-old high school graduate, was appointed as a director of Golob’s company as early as the 12th of July, 2023. Robert Golob has not informed the public, which he should have done as Prime Minister, of the changes in his assets.
The company Star Solar, an electricity generation company located at Delpinova Street 18 in Nova Gorica, was founded in March 2012, and until the 20th of October 2023, it was officially owned by Jana Nemec Golob, after which a change of ownership was recorded in the database of the Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Public Legal Records and Related Services on the 20th of October last year, and it turned out that the actual owner of the company was Prime Minister Robert Golob. The latter reportedly did not want to clarify the details of the change of ownership; however, the Prime Minister’s cabinet explained to the Delo newspaper that Golob had registered the change of ownership due to an amicable divorce and the related division of assets with his ex-wife Jana Nemec Golob. According to the Delo newspaper, Golob also declared the disposal of more than ten plots of land with a total area of more than 10 thousand square metres, the acquisition of immovable property, the disposal of cash, the acquisition of a business share and the acquisition of liabilities, each worth more than 10 thousand euros.
According to the media outlet Spletni časopis (Online Journal), Golob bought the company by converting a loan of 200,000 euros into an equity stake – and in addition, he had previously already invested 7,500 euros in the said company, according to court documents. According to the Erar application for the portrayal of the use of public money in Slovenia, the company Star Solar, d.o.o. has so far received 2.14 million euros, most of it from the state-owned company Borzen, the organiser of the electricity market.
What do we know about Luna Golob?
What is interesting about all this is that Golob put his daughter, Luna Golob, in the position of Director of this company, which has been receiving most of its money from the state electricity market operator company Borzen for the last few years. Star Solar is still based at Delpinova Street 18 in Nova Gorica, while both Golob and his daughter still have their permanent addresses registered in Kromberk, Pod Škrabrijelom, in Nova Gorica, the same as before last year’s elections.
Golob’s daughter Luna graduated from high school and came of age last year, and is expected to be a student at a university this school year. The public got to know (of) her after she posted a photo on her Instagram profile last year, where she was stretching her middle finger towards a poster – or rather the candidate on the poster – Janez Cigler Kralj (New Slovenia party – Nova Slovenija, NSi) before the presidential elections.
Why didn’t Golob give the director’s post to his partner, Tina?
Journalist Bojan Požar highlighted this question and listed several related and interesting facts. He pointed out that the state company Borzen has already transferred more than 14 thousand euros to Star Solar, after Golob’s formal takeover of the company (the 19th of November, 2023), which means that the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia and the President of the Freedom Movement party (Gibanje Svoboda) is now doing business with state companies. He also highlighted the fact that Golob did not give the directorship of Star Solar to Tina Gaber (but to his daughter Luna), which actually says a lot about the Gaber-Golob love. In addition, Požar also wrote that Mojca Kert, Golob’s director at Borzen, is the ex-wife of lawyer Milan Kos, brother of the more famous Drago Kos and the equally famous Marta Kos.
Požar also added that if the President of the largest opposition party (Slovenian Democratic Party – SDS) and former Prime Minister Janez Janša were to do what Golob is currently doing, the mainstream media would have crucified him by now…
Požar also raised a number of other issues of importance to the public and to the Commission for the Prevention of Corruption, related to Golob’s ownership of Star Solar, namely:
– Did Golob violate moral and ethical principles and also the law, because he was, at all times, more than obviously, the hidden owner of Star Solar d.o.o., a company that generates the vast majority of its revenues from electricity trading/production with state-owned companies?
– Or can the Prime Minister at the same time privately do business with state-owned companies, in an unlikely triangle where he is the owner of a private company, the formal director is his daughter Luna, who is barely of age, and the key “business partner” is, quite by chance, Mojca Kert, director of the state-owned company Borzen, but otherwise a former employee of the Gen-I energy company – where she was Golob’s employee – and also a parliamentary candidate of the Freedom Movement, whom Golob, after she was not elected as a member of parliament, made director of Borzen?!
L. K.
