TUDJMAN SUBMITS STATEMENT ON PROPERTY & OWNERSHIP TO PARLIAMENT

( Editorial: --> 4035 ) ZAGREB, Sept 29 (Hina) - Croatian President Franjo Tudjman on Tuesday submitted to the Parliamentary President a statement on assets and ownership upon stepping into office. The statement was submitted in line with the Law on Rights and Obligations of State Officials. In order to truthfully and completely inform the public, the Croatian President's Office issued a statement saying that President Franjo Tudjman owns a family house in Zagreb of which he is the tenancy rights co-holder with his wife. He bought the home on May 29, 1992 according to the Law on the Purchase of Flats, like all other Croatian citizens. Even though the lawful owner of this real estate is solely President Tudjman, the house is a marital acquisition and therefore jointly- owned property. The property was bought with money from family savings and royalties from more than 70 works published in Croatia and abroad. In movable property, President Tudjman is the owner of a private collection of paintings and a private car purchased in 1950. The President's Office statement said that during his terms of office, Tudjman had received as gifts four cars, one of which was destroyed in an air raid on the parliament building, while the other three were given for use by the State Protocol service. President Tudjman is not the owner of any stocks or company shares. The members of the Tudjman family are, as interpreted by the previously mentioned Law, the President's wife, Ankica, and his daughter Nevenka. Mrs Ankica Tudjman is the owner of a private car and does not own any other movable property of significant value nor stock or company shares. Ms Nevenka Tudjman was the founder and co-owner of the Netel trading company, which was subsequently wound up and stopped existing. She is now the founder and owner of the TNT PLUS trading company and the Kornet production company, in which production was initiated through loans. Both are operating on rented premises and employ a staff of 14. At the time President Tudjman submitted the statement on his assets and ownership, Ms Tudjman was finishing a family house for her necessities with borrowed funds from a commercial bank, and loan payment insurance based on a mortgage on the family house. In order to truthfully and completely inform and refute false and ill-intentioned rumours in domestic and foreign media on the allegedly great wealth of the Tudjman family, the President's Office statement also published the property of the President's sons, Stjepan and Miroslav, even though there is no legal obligation for doing so. Stjepan Tudjman and family do not live with the President's household, even though they share the same house. Stjepan Tudjman is the 50 per cent owner of the Domovina Holding company, the total worth of which is about US$1,374,344, and is also a 5 per cent share owner in the Anterra company, which began operating recently. He is not the owner of any other real estate or movable property of significant value. Miroslav Tudjman is the owner of a country house on the island of Brac and a vine-dresser's hut in the northern Croatian region of Hrvatsko Zagorje. He is not the owner of any other real estate or movable property of significant value, nor stocks or ownership shares in companies, the statement from the President's Office concluded. (hina) ha jn/mbr 291750 MET sep 98