ZAGREB, Dec 8 (Hina) - CEO Tomislav Dragicevic said on Monday the oil company INA had requested the State Prosecutor's Office to investigate media articles about an unusually high commission paid for the import of Libyan oil and ask
the police for help.
ZAGREB, Dec 8 (Hina) - CEO Tomislav Dragicevic said on Monday the
oil company INA had requested the State Prosecutor's Office to
investigate media articles about an unusually high commission paid
for the import of Libyan oil and ask the police for help. #L#
This has been INA's most successful year ever, when net profits are
expected to go up about 25 percent, to US$150 million, Dragicevic
said.
The State Prosecutor's Office should do its part of the job and
investigate what is going on, he told reporters at the opening of a
filling station in Zagreb when asked for a comment on media articles
on the import of Libyan oil.
The scandal involving INA and said import began last week when
Jutarnji list daily wrote that the company was buying Libyan oil
with the mediation of the Austrian company Leina Petroleum
Corporation, paying an unusually high commission. The article said
commission for one barrel of Libyan oil was 15 cents and that INA
should pay $240,000 in total for oil imported this year.
The Austrian company's director, Junuz Colovic, has told Croatian
media INA has not paid him anything yet for mediation in the import
of oil from Libya. Dragicevic said three days ago that INA was
neither obliged nor would pay any mediator for the import of Libyan
oil because there was no annexe which could prove that a mediator
can be remunerated.
(hina) ha sb