Vlahusic is charged with violating the Dubrovnik City Statute because in April 2010 he granted, without the approval of the City Council, a HRK 2 million (EUR 267,000) loan from the city budget to Vican whose hotel company Dubrovacko Primorje had found itself in financial trouble.
The national anti-corruption office USKOK issued the indictment in July 2011 and the Split County Court upheld it in November,