The Financial Administration of the Republic of Slovenia has denied the allegations of sending data to persons without legal treatment and as part of “special arrangements”, but MP Mojca Šetinc Pašek pointed out that they are lying in her recent statements to the press. She admitted that the Financial Administration had sent the commission of inquiry that she used to head a large amount of documentation that went beyond the investigation act, which could have been a potential misuse of data.
Sending extensive documentation and allowing access to confidential data and documents – this is the alleged serious abuse that was exposed on the Požareport web portal in recent days. As expected, the Financial Administration of the Republic of Slovenia is denying everything, but it was exposed as lying by MP Mojca Šetinc Pašek at a recent press conference. The Financial Administration was sending extensive documentation that went beyond the investigation act to the commission of inquiry that MP Šetinc Pašek used to head. The documents could not be “returned” and could be accessed by unauthorised persons up to a certain time.
“The Financial Administration of the Republic of Slovenia only forwards data to rightful claimants and to the extent provided for by the rules. We, therefore, reject any suggestion that we are sending data to persons without a legal basis or to an extent different from what is required by law. We also reject the recent claims that certain individuals have “special arrangements” with the General Financial Office of the Financial Administration (GD FURS),” the Financial Administration responded to investigative journalist Bojan Požar‘s recent allegations on the social media X. Their response was expected, but MP Šetinc Pašek indirectly refuted this statement in her response.
The Financial Administration sent materials that went beyond the investigation act
At a press conference on Monday, MP Šetinc Pašek highlighted the possibility of possible abuses based on the case of the Commission of Inquiry for determining the political responsibility of holders of public office with regard to the alleged illegal financing of political parties and party political propaganda in the media before and during the 2022 elections to the National Assembly with financial resources from state-owned enterprises, state institutions and foreign entities, which she herself chaired until last November. She admitted that it was from the Financial Administration that the aforementioned commission had received “a wealth of information and a wealth of material relating to one of the companies which, although not purely the subjects of the investigation of the commission of inquiry, had found themselves under investigation, and information which actually went beyond both the framework and the very act of the commission of inquiry.” When she found out what it was about, she suggested that the documentation in question be returned to the Financial Administration but found that the copies would remain in the National Assembly in any case. She pointed to the possibility of misuse of the data. The Financial Administration’s claims are more than obviously not true, which is why we have addressed press questions on the matter to them, and we will publish their answers when we receive them.
As we reported, the Požareport web portal recently published a high-profile story entitled “The Watergate of Golob’s Freedom Movement. When Mojca Šetinc Pašek confirms: Vesna Vuković accesses classified Financial Administration data. Who are the people involved?” in which the author wrote that MP Mojca Šetinc Pašek had said that the Secretary-General of the Freedom Movement party (Gibanje Svoboda), Vesna Vuković, had illegally accessed, through the commission of inquiry on party financing, a whole range of secret or confidential information from the Financial Administration about specific people and companies. This is the first time that rumours of abuse have been officially confirmed. Vuković allegedly not only looked through the Financial Administration’s data, but also that of the police and the Office for Money Laundering Prevention. The web portal also reported that the commission of inquiry in question obtained information from the Financial Administration in agreement with its director, Peter Grum (a Freedom Movement party cadre), and they obtained data from several years ago, which constitutes a serious abuse of the investigative commission of the National Assembly.
And through the Office for Money Laundering Prevention, Vuković allegedly managed to obtain, within hours of the transaction, secret information that the seller of the infamous court building on Litijska Street, Sebastjan Vežnaver, had returned part of the purchase price as “loan repayment”. This is strictly confidential information, which, according to other sources, is practically impossible to obtain legally, and all of this was published by her “former” investigative web portal Necenzurirano (Uncensored).
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