More than 15 workers did not pay their salaries contributions

Criminologists of the Criminal Police Department of the Police Directorate (PU

Freedom was arrested by a suspected 62-year-old citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The pre -trial procedure began on the basis of a Furs application, which performed tax control in one of the companies involved and identified irregularities.

Following an analysis in house investigations seized documentation and inspection of secured electronic data, a criminal complaint was filed at the competent district prosecutor’s office in Krško in April for a reasonable suspicion that a 62-year-old suspect and his immediate family members and two legal entities (two had already been deleted) fraudulent or unfaithful operations, several criminal offenses of violations of the fundamental rights of workers and the crime of abuse of office or trust in economic activity.

In investigating crimes, they found that the suspects have been suspected since spring 2022, despite their company going into liquidity problems, concluded fraudulent contracts to divert the flow of money from a blocked bank account of their company, thus damaging the company’s creditors. In parallel, they founded a new company and continued their business through it until the story repeated itself as a previous company.

They also founded a third company, which also went into liquidity problems, and during the investigation the suspects were operating through the fourth company. Most of the debt was contributions from the paid salaries for employees, which were not deliberately paid by the company or on its behalf by the suspected suspect, so the tax authority conducted enforcement proceedings against the company, while not paying more than 15 workers.

Two suspects are also accused of abuse of office in a criminal complaint, withdrawing cash from the business bank account of a company for direct payments with a business card for things and services for personal purposes, spending more than 130,000 euros in the company.

Through these actions, the suspects were damaged mainly by the FURS or the budget of the Republic of Slovenia in the amount of more than € 300,000. Also, in the three companies involved, contributions were paid out of paid salaries totaling more than € 135,000.

A criminal offense of damaging creditors with fraud or bride’s operations is threatened with one to eight years in prison, a crime of abuse of office or trust in economic activity prescribes a sentence of imprisonment of one to eight years and a crime of violations of fundamental rights of workers up to three years and a fine.