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Combat Aircraft Overhaul Package: Technical Commission Favours Included

Price: at least EUR 10,000. Seller: one Ministry of Defence official. Condition: final conviction.

Sold2011–2016National

at least €10,000As stated in the source: najmanje 10.000,00 EUR-a

Already sold, in 2011–2016. Nothing on Lobay is for sale.

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Seller

Role: official of the Ministry of Defence and member of various technical commissions
Institution: Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Croatia
Country: Croatia

Item specifics

Condition	Final conviction, Supreme Court of Croatia, 15 Nov 2021
Location	Croatia
Seller	Official of the Ministry of Defence, member of various technical commissions. Name withheld.
Winning bidder	A foreign trading company, via its agent's representative. Name withheld.
Category	Defense
Sold	2011–2016
Payment method	Agreed money handed over on several occasions
Returns	No returns. Official's proceeds confiscated: 10,000 EUR (2021). Prison: 3 years (official), 1 year (agent's rep.)

Description

What the bribe bought

The bribes helped win an overhaul and purchase contract worth 13,998,827.94 EUR, which was fully performed. The favours on offer were favourable opinions and priority from technical commissions.

Return on bribe: Every €1 of bribes bought contracts worth about €1,400.Rough figure: the bribe is stated as “at least”, the gain as “exact”.

What happened

A Ministry of Defence official, who sat on various technical commissions, took bribes in a procurement for the overhaul of seven combat aircraft and the purchase of five more. The events ran from 2011 to 2016. A representative of a company acting as agent for a foreign trading company handed over the agreed money on several occasions. The Supreme Court found the official took at least EUR 10,000 and raised his sentence to 3 years in prison. The agent's representative received 1 year.

Read the article

Vrhovni sud potvrdio: načelnik MORH-a uzeo 10 tisuća eura mita · Telegram.hr · Article in Croatian

Official record

Vrhovni sud djelomično postrožio u odluci o kazni presudu za primanje mita · Vrhovni sud Republike Hrvatske (Supreme Court of the Republic of Croatia) · Article in Croatian

Shipping & returns

Authority	Kind	Amount	Year
Vrhovni sud Republike Hrvatske	prison sentence (official; increased on appeal from 1 year 8 months)	kaznu zatvora 3 (tri) godine	2021
Vrhovni sud Republike Hrvatske	confiscation of the official's proceeds	€10,000As stated in the source: imovinska korist (10.000,00 eura) oduzeta	2021
Vrhovni sud Republike Hrvatske	prison sentence (agent's representative; first-instance sentence confirmed)	kaznu zatvora 1 (jedna) godina	2021