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A quality betwixt Croatia and the European Union implicit who should analyse a high-profile corruption lawsuit involving a erstwhile curate deepened connected Thursday aft the bloc’s main authoritative said Zagreb had problems upholding the regularisation of law.
The enactment erupted aft Croatian authorities ordered the arrest of ex-Health Minister Vili Beros connected suspicion of corruption past week – and past the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) said it had been moving its ain wider probe into the lawsuit and had been astir to bid searches.
Beros denies immoderate wrongdoing. He was fired and detained for 1 month, pending the investigations.
Both sides said they had not been informed of the different investigation. The EU said it should instrumentality over. But Croatia’s State Attorney General, Ivan Turudic, ruled this week that his country’s Office for the Suppression of Corruption and Organised Crime (USKOK) would prosecute the case.
The EU main authoritative said they handed implicit their files connected Thursday to Croatia – pursuing EU rules – but issued a connection saying they powerfully disagreed with the decision.
They said they had written to the European Commission “underlining Croatia’s systemic challenges successful upholding the regularisation of law,” without going into greater detail.
They said the State Attorney General had based “his determination solely connected USKOK’s interpretation, without giving the EPPO the accidental to explicit its position, and frankincense undermining the impartiality of the struggle resolution”. It was not instantly wide if the EU prosecutors were readying to instrumentality much factual enactment to reclaim the case.
The EPPO has said 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.
Turudic said his bureau was acting based connected the applicable Croatian law, and the lawsuit was not related to EU funds.
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