Representatives of Merlyn company from Split, Dajaković workshop, Bagarić tools and Zelić metalworking workshop from Makarska, as well as Iskopa secon from Tučepi, Tonix from Stobreč, and a concrete cutting and drilling workshop from Medak have contacted us again. They have been unable to collect their claims from Herus d.o.o. and the Agava workshop from Makarska for years.
The reason for the readers’ renewed contact is the attempts of the local judiciary in Makarska and Split to cover up the responsibility of the Agava workshop (which has considerable assets) and shift it onto Davor Balija, the (former) owner of the liquidated construction company Herus (which has no assets). Unsatisfied readers claim that neither Davor Balija nor the liquidated Herus d.o.o. benefited from the unpaid debts, but exclusively the Agava workshop.
Makarska ‘Judicial Network’ Readers first contacted us when we unsuspectingly published in 2011 in issue 307 of Lider that the Agava workshop owned by Maja Mihaljević from Makarska, according to data from Fina and HOK, was the most successful in Croatia based on profit achieved in 2010. Then, in issue 309 of Lider, after readers’ contact, we had to publish an article about the Agava workshop’s malversations.
To understand the ‘success’ of the Agava workshop in not paying obligations and consequently being declared the most successful, it is necessary to repeat the description from issue 309 of Lider ‘who is who’ in the Agava workshop and Makarska.
Maja Mihaljević, the owner of the Agava workshop, has a sister named Barbara. Maja Mihaljević’s maiden name is Begić, of course, just like her sister Barbara Menđeš, who is a judge at the Municipal Court in Makarska. The father of Barbara and Maja is Blago Begić, the former director of the Makarska Amfora. Amfora ended up in bankruptcy.
Blago Begić was declared manager of the year by Pepsi Cola as the director of Amfora Makarska before the bankruptcy. He was also a co-defendant in the trial against the so-called Gucić group in 2000, and that court case has never been concluded.
While investigating, we read in the daily newspapers about a news published several years ago: ‘Operatives of the Department of Economic Crime reported Blago Begić for fraud in business operations, and Maja Begić and Davor Balija were reported for favoring creditors as they settled creditors through assignments out of order.’
Only Davor Balija, who has no assets, faced charges and a final verdict after the investigation by the ‘Operatives of the Department of Economic Crime.’ In the case of the Agava workshop and Maja Mihaljević as well as Blago Begić, neither the DORH nor Uskok, nor the ‘operatives of the Department of Economic Crime,’ have had any success so far.
