ZAGREB, Sept 11 (Hina) - Guards of "Tigar-Cikatic" security agency scuffled with employees and unionists of the "Komercijalna Banka" shortly after ten o'clock on Saturday morning when female workers tried to enter the bank's offices
in Zagreb. Only two workers, the Zagreb commissioner of the Association of Independent Trade Unions (SSSH) Mario Ivekovic, and a member of the Liberal Party (LS), Mladen Vilfan, managed to come into the facilities of this bank. In the fight, a few workers sustained light injuries, and one of them needed medical aid as she suffered from shock. Twelve (12) "Tigar-Cikatic" security guards entered Komercijalna Banka before six o'clock on Saturday morning. Then, they changed the lock at the entrance and closed the entry to the courtyard, the bank's worker said. They did it without any valid reason and only at a request of the trustee in bankruptcy of Komercijalna
ZAGREB, Sept 11 (Hina) - Guards of "Tigar-Cikatic" security agency
scuffled with employees and unionists of the "Komercijalna Banka"
shortly after ten o'clock on Saturday morning when female workers
tried to enter the bank's offices in Zagreb.
Only two workers, the Zagreb commissioner of the Association of
Independent Trade Unions (SSSH) Mario Ivekovic, and a member of the
Liberal Party (LS), Mladen Vilfan, managed to come into the
facilities of this bank. In the fight, a few workers sustained light
injuries, and one of them needed medical aid as she suffered from
shock.
Twelve (12) "Tigar-Cikatic" security guards entered Komercijalna
Banka before six o'clock on Saturday morning. Then, they changed
the lock at the entrance and closed the entry to the courtyard, the
bank's worker said.
They did it without any valid reason and only at a request of the
trustee in bankruptcy of Komercijalna Banka, Pero Hrkac, the
employees claimed.
A few policemen who were standing in front of the bank's building
failed to intervene in the scuffle between guards and workers.
There are still about 40 female workers in the offices of
Komercijalna Banka, who have been keeping a vigil around the clock
for over a month to prevent the trustee in bankruptcy to enter the
bank and take documents that can allegedly discredit the former
management and some politicians from the ruling party as it reveals
their involvement in malfeasance in the work of the bank.
This morning, other employees tried to bring food and drinks to
vigilantes, but security guards did not allow them.
Mladen Vilfan of the LS described Hrkac's act of employing security
guards as "impudence of a criminal who should appear this Tuesday in
court to answer for charges of white-collar crimes." The State
Attorney's Office in the town of Nova Gradiska has issued an
indictment against Hrkac accusing him of economic crime.
Mario Ivekovic told reporters that Hrkac would have come with
ordinary police and an injunction, rather than security guards (of
a private company), in Komercijalna Banka, had everything been
clear around the bank. Ivekovic also claimed that Hrkac had come on
Saturday to take discrediting documents "at an order of secret
services" and in turn he would be awarded by favourable court
decision in his case (in Nova Gradiska).
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