Under the government of Robert Golob, virtually all state systems have been degraded. The anonymous message from an employee reveals a series of irregularities. These include Interior Minister Poklukar’s rapprochement with his Chief of Staff, as well as the fact that his office reportedly paid an official visit to his neighbours solely for the reason that the Security and Protection Centre (CVZ) could then drive his wife to the airport in Italy as a kind of Minister’s personal “Uber”. What is more, some of the personnel changes in the police force are said to be linked to the wiretaps the Minister was caught on.
“It is horrible when police officers have to turn around and seek help anonymously because the system is so screwed up and the vendettas so strong that you are just waiting to be replaced,” writes a resigned police officer in an anonymous letter.
First, he recalls how the specialised public prosecutor Mateja Gončin sought justice and demanded professional work from the authorities that should have protected her because of the dangerous nature of her work. Let us recall that Gončin is prosecuting notorious members of the so-called Kavač clan. Despite her complaints and public disclosures, “the authorities, the parties, her colleagues, the police and Nika Kovač“ have remained silent.
Of course, Prime Minister Robert Golob, all the parties of the coalition, the President of the Republic, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Speaker of the National Assembly all stayed silent, too, and who, according to the frustrated policeman, are tacitly supporting the abuses with their silence.
The Interior Minister is “making a fool” of the citizens, Golob is watching it all
As the anonymous policeman writes, at the centre of all these people is Minister Poklukar, whose actions are “making a fool” of the citizens. “Golob watches all this helplessly, while Damir Črnčec wags his finger at him and tells him to leave “his staff” alone. Meaning – Boštjan Poklukar. Slovenia needs a Prime Minister that would take this seriously and put an end to harmful practices. Slovenia needs a Prime Minister, and it needs one now. A minister cannot also “make a fool” of the Prime Minister, saying that he knows the man who is above him and that no one can do anything to him. In the car, it makes you sick to your stomach… but what are you going to do, you carry on,” writes the policeman.
In the letter, he then lists a series of serious mistakes that have gone, or apparently will go, unpunished – from direct political interference in the work of the police in events related to the Security and Protection Centre, when he allegedly cheerfully explained to the security guards in the car that “what they wanted, I gave them… ha… ha… they will remember who Poklukar is”. He also cites irregularities in the purchase of a new police helicopter, the unreasonable and damagingly expensive purchase of guard houses, and interesting details regarding the latest scandal at the Ministry of the Interior related to human trafficking, allegedly involving Aleš Hvala, the Minister’s former classmate and brother of his chief of staff, Nataša Hvala Ivančič. The police officer accuses the Minister of failing to act immediately when he became aware of the exploitation or even trafficking of Filipino workers, thus preventing further abuses.
Has the Minister become closer to his Chief of Staff?
The anonymous policeman then goes so far as to write: “The fact that the Minister and Hvala Ivančič are having an affair personally was already problematised by the then former Director-General Bobnar when they took office, and the Minister also took Hvala Ivančič to receptions where only the Minister and the then-Director-General Bobnar were supposed to be present. Hvala was jealous, and terribly so. It is quite strange that the Minister takes his Chief of Staff to almost all events and abroad, when the purpose of the Chief of Staff is to run the Minister’s office. Who is checking this non-transparent use of the ministry’s resources? One can see why he is so defensive of her.”
The office is also supposedly checking whether any office member, and especially the Minister, has been caught in wiretappings (audio recordings) and “actions”, as the frustrated policeman writes. The fact that the Minister and members of his office have indeed been caught in wiretappings is said to be indicated by one of the latest police reshuffles.
“It should be mentioned that at this very moment, there was a change – BUT WHY? – of the head of the special tasks sector, Domen Fajfer, who put his brother-in-law, Boštjan Pipan in direct charge of the measures (including these measures where Hvala and the minister got caught),” the policeman writes, adding that the latter allegedly did not meet the basic conditions for the post. “Oh, Fajfer’s brother is a security detail at the Security and Protection Centre, and he works directly with Minister Poklukar, and he is also talking incompetently and betraying what I am writing down now,” he adds.
The Minister’s Philippine “uber” – another affair that should have led to the Minister’s resignation
The anonymous police officer then reveals another affair “ripe for political accountability and resignation”. The Minister supposedly officially announced his visit to Italy, including the request for a vehicle and a permit to bring in weapons. The visit was to be arranged by his office. However, according to the letter, this was not an official state visit at all, but rather a transfer of the Minister’s wife to the airport in Italy.
“On the 1st of June 2025, the Minister drove his partner to the airport in his X5 in the morning and immediately returned to Bled and went merrily out on his bicycle. In the car, he said: “We saved money on parking and petrol.” The security details and the new head of physical security at the Security and Protection Centre are disgusted, but they don’t dare do anything… if she is loud, she will be replaced. Now, she has crossed over to the Freedom Movement (Gibanje Svoboda), and if you want a job, you will be quiet. But we security details feel like Minister Security and Protection Centre’s Philippine Uber,” he concludes.
We are checking with the ministry to verify the allegations in the letter.
Sara Kovač
