OSIJEK, June 16 (Hina) - The head of the office of the Croatian national police director, Krunoslav Borovec, on Tuesday said that the police had established that there was no organised prostitution ring in the Osijek-based
correctional home for underage girls, and that the alleged sex scandal had broken out after the father of one of girls in the home wanted to set his former wife and some local politicians up.
OSIJEK, June 16 (Hina) - The head of the office of the Croatian
national police director, Krunoslav Borovec, on Tuesday said that the police
had established that there was no organised prostitution ring in the
Osijek-based correctional home for underage girls, and that the alleged sex
scandal had broken out after the father of one of girls in the home wanted to
set his former wife and some local politicians up. Borovec told a
news conference in Osijek that the alleged scandal about which the media had
reported over recent days was actually the consequence of a plan of the
54-year-old father, who has criminal records for domestic violence and for
acquainting children with pornography, to discredit the institution in which
his daughter is accommodated as well as to discredit his former wife and some
members of the Osijek public life with whom he had conflicted.
The 54-year-old man gave money to some of the girls in the home to
write letters about organised prostitution in the institution. He dictated the
letters which appeared in the media, according to Borovec.
Borovec also refuted media speculations that a police officers had been
removed from the investigation in the case in a bid by the police to hush up
the scandal.