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Court Fraud: Debt Repayment Shifted to Debtor Without Assets

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.

Shameful Verdict Mladen Bajić, the Chief State Attorney, is well aware of the ‘character and deeds’ of Blago Begić. It should also be noted that the entire Croatian public has become aware of the state of the judiciary in Makarska and Split after Marijan Primorac, testifying in the trial against Ivo Sanader, stated that he bought an armored BMW for Sanader for 300 thousand euros at a time when his son was being tried for killing two high school girls on the sidewalk in Makarska in 2002 while speeding in a BMW. Let us recall, Primorac’s son received a disgracefully lenient sentence with the justification that he comes from a ‘respectable family’ (which gifts armored BMWs).
Affected readers have unsuccessfully sought the recusal of the court in Makarska and Split. Davor Balija also sought the recusal of Judge Dinko Mešina from the Municipal Court in Split, claiming that this judge had prejudged him before the trial.
It seems that Branko Hrvatin, the President of the Supreme Court, and Mladen Bajić, the Chief State Attorney, based on their authorities, should finally jointly investigate the work of the local judiciary in Makarska and Split.

Fast and Slow Verdicts

Davor Balija, the (former) owner of the liquidated d.o.o. Herus, has also sued the Agava workshop for unpaid claims exceeding 2.3 million kuna.
Unlike the non-final verdict in which Balija was quickly ‘declared guilty of seven criminal offenses,’ there is still no court decision in the proceedings regarding Balija’s claims of 2.3 million kuna from Agava.

We invite entrepreneurs to present their problems. Following your writings, by pointing out the absurdities in individual cases, we will highlight the shortcomings of the system as a whole and thus support Lider readers as individuals in their unequal disputes with the cumbersome state administration.

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