By order of USKOK, This morning, the police searched the home and office of the mayor of Oroslavje Viktor Šimunić and seized documentation, computers and mobile phones, and after that, Šimunić said in a post on Facebook that in Croatia it is obviously very dangerous to ask how public money is going.
In recent months, Šimunić has profiled himself as one of the loudest critics of the financial operations of sports federations, and his statements came in the midst of scandals in Croatian sports, including investigations into the disappearance of more than 30 million euros from the Croatian Ski Federation and actions in the Croatian Judo Federation.
In a post on social networks, Šimunić pointed out that “these are dangerous times if Uskok comes to your home to tell the truth.”
“THESE TIMES ARE DANGEROUS WHEN USKOP COMES HOME FOR SPEAKING THE TRUTH. Very, very dangerous. You all know very well what was discovered with the HOO and with the sports federations. A lot of strange transactions and a lot of questions about where the public money disappeared. But at the same time, very few answers. I was attacked publicly and I consider that the fact that the judicial bodies attacked me today at 6:00 a.m. was only part of the political pressure,” he wrote.
He added that during the search, electronic devices were taken from him on which, he claims, he had data on the work of sports associations that he planned to publish.
“Coincidence?” he asked.
“Obviously, it is very dangerous in Croatia to ask where public money goes. I think that the people who raided my parents’ house this morning are also aware of this, they are just doing their job, although they seem aware that it will be difficult to find something compromising. And while I don’t have access to my devices, I can see some papers on which I sketched announcements for, for example, the Croatian Sports Recreation Association. From the budget of 132,384.74 euros, 31,640 euros were taken at ATMs. A really strange situation, isn’t it, given that the investigators are at my place and not at theirs?” he added.
In the end, he expressed surprise that, as he says, no measures were imposed on him, but his data and devices were temporarily confiscated.
“The battle for Croatia, where true democracy rules, seems to have just begun,” he concluded.
