• Former minister Božidar Kalmeta rejected the charges in the retrial of the HAC-Remorker case, stating the indictment has nothing to do with him.
  • The state attorney’s office amended the indictment, now accusing Kalmeta of embezzling just over €220,000, down from the earlier half a million euros.
  • Co-defendants Zdravko Livaković and Milivoj Mikulić also denied the charges, claiming no evidence of criminal acts exists.
  • The retrial follows the Supreme Court’s 2022 annulment of Kalmeta’s acquittal.
  • In the Remorker affair, three ‘repentants’ confessed and reached plea deals with the prosecution.