No Tolerance For Small or Big Fish In Court

HDZ member Ana Lovrin stated that anticorruption in Croatia is achieving better results, even high functionaries are trialed for corruption.

Today at a press conference held at the party’s headquarters, HDZ (Croatian Democratic Union) member Ana Lovrin, referring to the European Commission’s latest report, stressed that the reform of the judiciary is in full spreading and that in the last two years it has showed evident results.

- The number of unsolved issues in courts ishalved, and the number of unsolved land-registry issues is reduced by 60% - Lovrin said. She continued stressing that the digitalization of land registers has been carried out and through the internet it is possible to make an inspection in whatever cadastral plot.

Through the Judiciary Academy, there has been an improvement of judges and state attorneys and a right to free legal help regardless of the social status has been provided.

Doctors, judges and high representatives are trialed for corruption.

As regards corruption, Lovrin said that the space for the equal information system of the public administration has been reduced and national programs for the fight against corruption are being carried out.

- public exams within the education system are encrypted, property cards for judges are introduced, a law on financing political parties has been passed, as well as a law on the direct election of mayors and heads which will reduce the corruption of counselors – the member of HDZ stressed.

Lovring also referred to the report of Transparency International, according to which the anticorruption programmes in Croatian have the best results this year compared to the year 1999.

When told that the European Commission’s report however states that in Croatia not one high representative is being trialed for suspicion of corruption, Lovrin refused these staements showing that at the moment 44 cases are being carried out, among which doctors, judges and representatives are being trialed.

- We do not tolerate any corruption, any kind of it is harmful, and before the court there are no differences between small and big fish – Lovrin concluded.