Ruling Coalition MP Indicted for Bribery of Journalist

ZAGREB, March 10, 2018 –  The Office for the Suppression of Corruption and Organised Crime (USKOK) on Friday issued an indictment against Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) lawmaker Franjo Lučić for offering a bribe to freelance reporter Drago Hedl  in a bid to persuade the reporter to stop writing about his companies.

According to the indictment, on 26 July 2017 Lučić offered a monetary reward to Hedl in return for scrapping the planned article on business and financial transactions of his companies.

Hedl said Lučić had offered him a reward three times as high as the amount of money he was normally paid by his media organisation if he stopped writing about the financial transactions of Lučić’s companies because they harmed his reputation.

Lučić denied any wrongdoing and said he and his family had been subjected to smear campaigns for years.

USKOK launched the investigation after the parliamentary credentials and privileges commission stripped Lučić of immunity from criminal persecution following the accusations made by Hedl.

 

Subscribe to our newsletter

the fields marked with * are required

Email: *
First name:
Last name:
Gender:	Male Female
Country:
Birthday:	[DD] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 [MM] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 [YYYY] 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

Please don't insert text in the box below!