Posts Tagged ‘Croatia’
December 10th, 2010
Robert Ježić, majority owner of the Croatian daily Novi List, was arrested in Zagreb yesterday. His arrest is thought to be connected with the flight of former PM Ivo Sanader, who exited Croatia yesterday morning, hours before the parliament lifted his immunity from prosecution, thus opening pending corruption inquiries against him. Ježić, who is also the owner of the petrol-chemistry company Dioki, managed to pay considerably less for energy consumption thanks to Sanader, the anti-crime bureau USKOK revealed. Both Sanader and Ježić are alleged to be involved in the
Hypo Alpe Adria Bank affair.
November 9th, 2010
Journalists on Croatia’s
Glas Istre (Voice of Istria) newspaper have entered their third day of strike action. They are protesting against wages and work places cuts. The ownership of Glas Istre, until recently one of the few independent newspapers in Croatia, became increasingly doubtful throughout the past years.
Croatia’s Journalist Union and
IFJ back the strike.
This is the biggest uprising of print journalists in Croatia since
Slobodna Dalmacija’s case in 1993, when the newspaper was privatised through a series of dubious administrative decisions. Since then, similar privatisation patterns were applied to many other Croatian media outlets.
November 2nd, 2009
Investigations conducted in Croatia and Serbia have led to the indictment on 26 October of eight individuals accused of murdering Ivo Pukanić, the owner of political weekly Nacional. Sreten Jocić, a wealthy Serbian businessman indicted for two other murders, is the most prominent individual to be named. Pukanić, along with colleague Niko Franić, was
killed by a car bomb in Zagreb on 23 October 2008.
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June 2nd, 2009
A key suspect in the murder of the prominent editor
Ivo Pukanic and his colleague Niko Franic who were killed in Croatia last year, has been arrested in Belgrade. Read more
here
October 24th, 2008
The assassination of Ivo Pukanic and Niko Franjic reveals the dangers of reporting on Croatia’s complex organised crime world, writes Goran Milakovic
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October 24th, 2008
Journalist Ivo Pukanic and marketing executive Niko Franjic have been killed in a car-bomb attack in the Croatian capital, Zagreb.
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