Croatian health minister arrested and sacked over alleged graft

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office besides said it had initiated an probe against 8 people, including Beros and the directors of 2 hospitals successful Zagreb, implicit alleged bribery, maltreatment of authorization and wealth laundering.
Croatia’s State Attorney Ivan Turudic, whose bureau works intimately with USKOK, said determination were 2 parallel investigations into the alleged crimes and that EPPO has not informed his bureau nor USKOK astir its investigation.

Turudic said Beros was accused of commercialized of influence. He said 2 different individuals had been arrested and 1 ineligible entity would beryllium investigated connected suspicion of the transgression enactment of receiving a bribe.

The radical detained volition beryllium brought earlier an investigative justice who volition determine connected immoderate pre-trial detention, Turudic told a quality conference.

The EPPO said that a transgression radical seeking to unafraid financing for the merchantability of aesculapian robotic devices successful respective hospitals was suspected of giving bribes to officials to effort to triumph contracts for projects, including EU funded ones.
“What is evident is that this is astir transgression acts of corruption,” Plenkovic said. “On behalf of the government, I privation to accidental that agencies authorised for transgression persecution should analyse everything.”