ZAGREB, May 27 (Hina) - The Croatian parliament will on Tuesday discuss a report by the State Audit Office on completed privatisation audits in the first 100 companies.
ZAGREB, May 27 (Hina) - The Croatian parliament will on Tuesday
discuss a report by the State Audit Office on completed
privatisation audits in the first 100 companies. #L#
The parliament has been suggested by the government not to adopt the
audit report, but request that it be amended.
The government believes that the report is not balanced and that it
does not contain the names of persons responsible for crime in the
privatisation process.
The government has also noted in its report to the parliament that a
number of irregularities and illegal acts were committed in the
transformation and privatisation process which caused
considerable damage.
It has therefore announced strict measures for the punishment of
crime and people who committed criminal acts in the transformation
and privatisation process.
Along with the government's conclusions about the audit report,
Reconstruction Minister Radimir Cacic has attracted great public
attention by stating that there are traces of organised crime in the
privatisation process.
Cacic claims that privatisation crime was a policy devised by the
former state leadership, which was given a legal basis by the HDZ-
led parliamentary majority in the past decade.
The HDZ has dismissed these claims, saying they were part of an
electoral campaign.
By auditing transformation and privatisation in the first 100
companies, the State Audit Office has completed only a small part of
the job, given the fact that it should audit almost 2,000 business
subjects.
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