PM satisfied with Tax Administration's report on property in Sisak

Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic is satisfied with information which the Tax Administration presented regarding the purchase of a property in the central town of Sisak for an emergency medical care institute and for which the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office suspects Sisak-Moslavina County Perfect Marina Lovric Merzel that she overpaid for it.

The explanation that I have seen proves that the Tax Administration is doing it job, Milanovic said at the government session on Thursday.

When it comes to supervising the system, I as prime minister and the finance minister have done everything, he added.

"We do not and cannot have any further influence. Now let the judiciary do its job," he concluded.

At the government session last week, Milanovic asked Finance Minister Slavko Linic to make an analysis as quickly as possible which will show if there were omissions in the appraisal of a property for an emergency medical care institute in Sisak-Moslavina County which the state prosecutor's office contends was overpaid for, accusing prefect Lovric Merzel.

Later that day, Deputy Finance Minister Boris Lalovac and Croatian Tax Administration head Nada Cavlovic Smiljanec said that the tax administration in Sisak had conducted the appraisal of a building that later housed an emergency clinic in Sisak-Moslavina County pursuant to regulations and that the results of its appraisal were confirmed by subsequent audits on two occasions.

The two officials explained that estimating the value of real estate was regulated by rules adopted in 2011, which were applicable on the whole territory of Croatia. Lalovac and Cavlovic Smiljanec said that the appraisal had been conducted in accordance with the rules and procedure.

The anti-corruption office USKOK suspects Lovric Merzel of overpaying for the building. She signed a HRK 9.8 million contract for the property with a company owned by Bernard Popec on 30 May 2012, whereby he made at least HRK 4.2 million in illegal gain, USKOK claims.

At its session today, the government sent to parliament the final bill on family and a bill on civil society associations.

(Hina)



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