Day: November 14, 2020

On 13 November, OCCRP reported that a Croatian court has sentenced the country’s former Prime Minister, Ivo Sanader, to 8 years in prison for syphoning state-owned assets through a private marketing company, keeping some of it for himself and putting the rest into his party’s secret slush fund while he was in office.  Besides Sanader, the court also sentenced his associates, the HDZ’ party’s former treasurer, Mladen Barišić, to 2 years and 10 months in jail, and the party’s former financial clerk, Branka Pavošević, to 16 months jail.

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/13396-croatia-s-ex-pm-sentenced-to-8-years-in-jail-for-embezzlement

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On 14 November, N1 reported that the UN Special Rapporteur on the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights in the Fight against Terrorism, warned in an interview with Voice of America that Serbian Ministry of Finance Anti-Money Laundering Administration’s request for insight into bank accounts of NGO, media and individuals is a form of pressure on the part of the public indicating corruption in government, political torture, or human rights violations.

http://rs.n1info.com/English/NEWS/a671935/UN-asks-Serbia-to-explain-Anti-Money-Laundering-Administration-s-move.html

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A news release from Europol on 14 November announced that an investigation that involved the Spanish National Police and other agencies, and supported by Europol, led to the dismantling of a large organised crime group involved arms trafficking and money laundering.  The criminal network, made up of Latvian, Spanish and Ukrainian members, illegally transported Russian weapons and explosives in commercial ships from Ukraine mainly to conflict zones in North Africa and the Middle East, subject to international embargoes.  The illegal shipments were concealed in cargo ship transporting legally sourced armaments and included weapons and heavy armament, including tanks, through the Mediterranean.

https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/traffickers-supplying-conflict-zones-weapons-and-explosives-disarmed-in-spain

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