After the investigation, USKOK, the Croatian Office for the Suppression of Corruption and Organised Crime, filed an indictment before the Rijeka County Court against three Croatian citizens (1990, 1976, 1980) for committing the criminal offenses of accepting bribes in economic operations, forging an official or business document and inciting to forge an official or business document.
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The indictment of the 1st and 2nd defendants are charged that together and consensually, in the period from 1 July 2022 to 23 February 2023 in Pula and Zagreb, after the 2nd defendant the director of one company offered the representative of another company the job of providing preventive atm tour services in Istria in the name and for the account of FINA Cash Services (FINA GS), in connection with which he ensured contact with the 1st defendant.
The director of the Technical Protection Department at FINA GS, and which job the other company performed during July and August 2022 on the basis of a cooperation agreement and performed for FINA GS, requested from the representatives of that company for obtaining this job, as well as for future business cooperation with FINA GS in the activities of additional insurance, especially related to the transport of money by special vehicles in Istria.
They asked him to pay a bill for the alleged catering service in the amount of 4,140.95 euros, which the previous third company had turned out to him via e-mail, in favor of the 2nd defendant, but the latter did not agree to pay.
Previously, at the beginning of September 2022, for this purpose, the 2nd defendant from 3rd defendant the responsible person in one company requested that, on behalf of his company, issue a fictitious invoice on the stated amount for the food preparation service and issue it to the company that cooperated with FINA GS, which is the 3rd defendant and did.
He then recorded the invoice in the Book of Sales Invoices, although he was aware that the invoiced service was not ordered or provided. ■