"In such proceedings, companies have been ruined intentionally or through mismanagement and as a result they have been liquidated and workers have ended up without jobs," Labour Party leader Dragutin Lesar told a press conference in the Parliament building.
Lesar said that as many as 89 bankruptcy proceedings had been conducted for more than 10 years, 166 for more than five years, and 287 for more than three years, even though they should have been completed within no more than a year and a half. He said that 1,400 bankruptcy proceedings were under way.
Lesar said it was unacceptable that the government did not have records of bankruptcy proceedings and that manipulations with daughter companies were still possible. He said that with its motion his party wanted to force the government to ensure free legal aid for creditor workers in bankruptcy proceedings and to begin a forced collection of payments in order to reform and rescue the healthy part of a company.
"We want to prevent illegality, theft and crime before the opening of bankruptcy proceedings," Labour Party MP Zlatko Tusak said.