The National Bureau of Investigation (NPU) has charged three natural persons and one legal entity for abuse of position or trust in economic activity and one natural person for forgery of documents, the police recently announced.
The names are being withheld from the public because this is required by the law on the protection of privacy, but it is quite clear that the proceedings have only been initiated against small fish, which do not include Finance Minister Klemen Boštjančič, who, together with the government, arranged the money for the overpriced purchase, bypassing the law and getting the money from the budget reserves just before the New Year, and at the request of former Minister of Justice Dominika Švarc Pipan, who led the purchase process and is not among those indicted. The top of the National Bureau of Investigation was appointed by Prime Minister Robert Golob, who has also carried out repeated purges in the entire police force to ensure that the ‘wrong people’ would not be investigated and framed.
The police are withholding information about the names of those who have been denounced from the public, but it seems that they have denounced the former Secretary-General of the Ministry of Justice, Uroš Gojkovič, the former head of the Real Estate and Investment Department at the Ministry, Simon Starček, the entrepreneur Sebastjan Vežnaver and his company, Rezidenca Rajski vrt (Paradise Garden Residence), and the appraiser, Breda Zorko, who gave two different valuations for the value of this building, and in the past, for the very low valuation of the former property of Janez Janša in Trenta. The last high valuation for the building on Litijska Street was given by Anton Rigler, who later admitted that Zorko was the actual author of the said valuation.
The police summarised the proceedings as follows: two of the persons mentioned above are suspected of abuse of position in the purchase and sale procedure for the purchase of a building for the needs of the judicial authorities, which, as a result of their coordinated actions and the coordinated actions of the seller, was purchased at a substantially inflated price, as the seller had been unsuccessfully selling it at a lower price since June 2020. The two suspects arranged and adapted the text of the public invitation for non-binding tenders to ensure that the building at 51 Litijska Street, Ljubljana, was the most suitable for the conditions. The suspected person assisted in the commission of the offence by providing a forged report on the valuation of real estate rights and an energy performance certificate which did not reflect the actual situation or did not demonstrate adequate energy efficiency, all with the intention of obtaining an unlawful pecuniary advantage for his company in the amount of the difference between the advertised value of the building and the actual sale price, i.e. 2.9 million euros.
Investigators of the National Bureau of Investigation have filed criminal charges with the Specialised Public Prosecutor’s Office against three natural persons on the grounds of reasonable suspicion that they have committed the offence of abuse of position or trust in economic activity pursuant to paragraph I. and II. from Article 240, in conjunction with Article 20 and Article 38 of the Criminal Code (KZ-1), and against one person on the grounds of reasonable suspicion of having committed the offence of falsification of documents pursuant to paragraph I. of Article 251 of the Criminal Code.
A company from the territory of the Republic of Slovenia is also criminally liable for the offence pursuant to Article 42 of the Criminal Code (KZ-1), in conjunction with the 3rd paragraph of Article 4 and Article 10 of the Law on the Liability of Legal Persons for Criminal Offences (ZOPOKD), and in conjunction with the 9th paragraph of Article 25 of the same law, as there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that the offence was committed in its name and for its benefit, and that the company is also the recipient of an unlawful financial gain of 2.9 million euros in the purchase and sale procedure.
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