ZAGREB, Oct 17 (Hina) - Following a two-week deferral, the trial of Miroslav Kutle and 12 other persons charged with abuse of office in the case of Croatia's largest press distributor 'Tisak', started at the Zagreb Municipal Court on
Tuesday. The first hearing had been postponed due to the failure of Krunoslav Marcinko, fifth on the indictment, to appear for trial as he had not been served with the subpoena timely. Kutle is charged with having incited former members of Tisak's management and his business partners to abuse their office in business operations and forge documents. The prosecution maintains that although he was not the majority owner of Tisak, Kutle had instructed the former management and business partners to give loans to other companies, which, in turn, through various clearance contracts forwarded the money to the companies from Kutle's 'Globus Holding' company. This way, the prosecution claims, 47 million kuna (about US
ZAGREB, Oct 17 (Hina) - Following a two-week deferral, the trial of
Miroslav Kutle and 12 other persons charged with abuse of office in
the case of Croatia's largest press distributor 'Tisak', started at
the Zagreb Municipal Court on Tuesday.
The first hearing had been postponed due to the failure of Krunoslav
Marcinko, fifth on the indictment, to appear for trial as he had not
been served with the subpoena timely.
Kutle is charged with having incited former members of Tisak's
management and his business partners to abuse their office in
business operations and forge documents. The prosecution maintains
that although he was not the majority owner of Tisak, Kutle had
instructed the former management and business partners to give
loans to other companies, which, in turn, through various clearance
contracts forwarded the money to the companies from Kutle's 'Globus
Holding' company. This way, the prosecution claims, 47 million kuna
(about US$5.465 million), was drained from Tisak.
(hina) rml