ZAGREB, Dec 3 (Hina) - Outgoing Prime Minister Ivica Racan could call on his ministers on Thursday to end their terms by presenting declarations on assets so that one could see whether they have profited or incurred losses during the
past four years, a government source said on Wednesday.
ZAGREB, Dec 3 (Hina) - Outgoing Prime Minister Ivica Racan could
call on his ministers on Thursday to end their terms by presenting
declarations on assets so that one could see whether they have
profited or incurred losses during the past four years, a
government source said on Wednesday. #L#
Whether Racan will do that will be known after a meeting of the inner
cabinet, scheduled for the morning, before a closed government
session.
The government source says current provisions do not bind ministers
to declare their assets, and there is actually no body which would
ask them to do so and collect the declarations.
The decision to go public with their assets at the end of the four-
year terms would therefore be an act of their good will and not of
compliance with the law, the source adds.
The declarations ministers compiled at the start of their terms
showed that they mostly lived off their salaries, that few had
additional income, that a good many had shares, and that most owned
real estate.
Upon stepping into office Racan owned shares in a tourist company, a
flat in Zagreb, and co-owned country houses on the island of Brac
and by the Kupa river.
After Economy Minister Goranko Fizulic left Racan's cabinet, the
richest among the remaining appears to have been Public Works and
Reconstruction Minister Radimir Cacic. He reported owning shares
in a dozen companies, a flat in Zagreb and one in Dubrovnik, another
one in Slovenia's Kranjska Gora, and part-ownership in an
agricultural estate.
Deputy PM Slavko Linic and War Veterans' Affairs Minister Ivica
Pancic were the least rich.
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