ZADAR BUSINESSMAN, FORMER 'GLUMINA BANK' EMPLOYEE SUSPECTED OF ABUSE OF OFFICE, FORGERY

ZADAR, Aug 1 (Hina) - The Zadar County police on Tuesday pressed charges with the Zadar County State Prosecutor's Office against Ante Jurjevic (aged 53), owner of the Zadarkomerc Group, Marko Marcinko (aged 50), former head of the Glumina Bank management board, and Josko Basic (aged 42), all suspected of having abused office and forged official documents. The suspects were arrested and taken before the Zadar County Court investigating judge this afternoon. Marcinko and Basic are suspected of having obtained an illegal gain of 25,874,484 kuna for Jurjevic by transferring his obligations towards the Glumina Bank d.d. worth DM 7,245,928 to other legal and physical entities by using fictitious contracts. In doing so, they intentionally failed to implement the valid models of securing the collection of the bank's claims. It has been established in an investigation that together with another three persons the two men committed a number of criminal acts including abuse of office, abuse of office in business operations and the forgery of an official document, causing damage to various companies from the Zadarakomerc Group worth 28,719,726 kuna. (hina) rml