ZAGREB, Jan 28 (Hina) - Of the total of 20 members of Zlatko Matesa's government, 19 handed in their assets cards at the end of their mandate. The majority - 11 - did not report any changes to their assets compared to their status in
the summer of 1998. Former Tourism Minister Ivan Herak did not hand in his assets card because he was taken in by the police about 2pm Thursday, immediately upon being dismissed from his office as minister. The outgoing premier and his government members first completed their assets cards based on the Law on Obligations and Rights of State Officials, in June 1998 and were obliged to add any changes in the period since. Matesa reported a decrease in his bank balance amounting to 120,000 kunas. However, he reported the purchase of a new Audi A6, According to the card he completed in June 1998, Matesa had a bank balance of 525,400 kunas which he had deposited following the
ZAGREB, Jan 28 (Hina) - Of the total of 20 members of Zlatko Matesa's
government, 19 handed in their assets cards at the end of their
mandate. The majority - 11 - did not report any changes to their
assets compared to their status in the summer of 1998.
Former Tourism Minister Ivan Herak did not hand in his assets card
because he was taken in by the police about 2pm Thursday,
immediately upon being dismissed from his office as minister.
The outgoing premier and his government members first completed
their assets cards based on the Law on Obligations and Rights of
State Officials, in June 1998 and were obliged to add any changes in
the period since.
Matesa reported a decrease in his bank balance amounting to 120,000
kunas. However, he reported the purchase of a new Audi A6, According
to the card he completed in June 1998, Matesa had a bank balance of
525,400 kunas which he had deposited following the sale of his
apartment in 1996.
Registration of land inherited in the northern part of town
amounting to 1549 square metres was the only change to former
Finance Minister Borislav Skegro's assets.
Former Foreign Minister Mate Granic's card shows that until
September 1998 he lived in one house and then moved to a newly built
one. It is evident that the new 287 square metre house was built on
land inherited by his wife Jadranka.
The only change to his assets recorded are the acquisition of a
collection of some 60 modern Croatian painters and the purchase of a
new Opel Vectra car also owned by his wife.
One of the rare changes in assets was recorded by former European
Integration Minister Ljerka Mintas Hodak. Since the adoption of the
new law, Hodak recorded a salary of 23,139 kunas (in May 1998, her
salary was 6932 kunas). The remaining changes relate to her
husband's assets.
And the former Agricultural and Forestry Minister Ivan Djurkic
recorded changes to his assets with an increased salary from 6,062
kunas to 18,000 kunas. In addition he recorded renovations to his
home in Slakovci which was partially repaired within a
reconstruction programme for the Danube region and partially via a
loan.
At the end of his mandate, former Interior Minister Ivan Penic
recorded selling a Mercedes 250 and the purchase of a VW Passat, the
construction of a house on the sea on the island of Krk on land he has
owned since 1985, noting too that the house is not completed. He
also recorded the sale of some shares owned by his wife.
An apartment bought in Zagreb through a loan, was the only change in
assets recorded by former Economy Minister Nenad Porges while
former Health Minister Zeljko Reiner recorded an increase in salary
(to 17,461 kunas). He also recorded an increase in his wife's salary
and casual earnings amounting to about 7,500 kunas as well as the
sale of her car.
Amongst the 11 ministers who did not record any changes to their
assets are Jure Radic and Milan Kovac, Bozo Biskupic, Juraj Njavro,
Joso Skara and Marko Sirac. The most recently appointed ministers
who were appointed after October 1998, Pavao Miljavac, Zvonimir
Separovic, Ivan Pavlovic, Milena Zic Fuchs and Nansi Ivanisevic
also did not record any changes.
A review of assets cards indicates that the former ministers did not
own shares. In addition to their salaries, some ministers recorded
earnings from sitting on various committees, institutes and
funds.
These earnings amounted to Skegro's almost 20,000 kunas per month,
Kovac's 17,000 kunas, part of which he donated to humanitarian
organisations. Porges recorded more than 13,000 kunas per month
while Matesa recorded approximately 5,000 kunas earned sitting on
the Agency for Deposit Insurance and Bank Rehabilitation.
Honorariums for publishing activities amounting to 25,000 were
recorded by Zvonimir Separovic.
During their mandates, not many ministers changed their cars,
Porges ad Kovac still drive Mazdas, Biskupic owns a BMW, Reiner a
Mercedes and Skegro a Hyundai Pony. Miljavac however, owns two cars
- BMW 525 and a Toyota land rover. The majority of former ministers
are partial owners of holiday homes, some have sea vessels, Radic
for example owns a speed boat.
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