Marko Kaloh, brother of independent MP Dejan Kaloh, is a dental industry entrepreneur. In March 2020 he registered a marketing company in Banja Luka. Things changed a few months down the line, and he instructed Rok Snežič to dissolve the company. It would seem that despite assurances, the latter hasn’t done so.
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The investigative project Cartomb disclosed a systemic problem with out-of-function vehicles in Slovenia, as more than 70 unreported car dumps were discovered across the country. A portion of them is located on official lands, belonging to municipalities, the state, or a state-owned company.
Epstein helped a girlfriend obtain roles at the International Peace Institute, an influential New York-based think tank. Emails suggest he even subsidized her salary at one point. The scoop was discovered and penned by Oštro's editor in chief Anuška Delić, who is also OCCRP's Balkan co-editor.
Marko Kaloh, brother of independent MP Dejan Kaloh, is a dental industry entrepreneur. In March 2020 he registered a marketing company in Banja Luka. Things changed a few months down the line, and he instructed Rok Snežič to dissolve the company. It would seem that despite assurances, the latter hasn’t done so.
Domestic and international journalism organizations have responded to the proceedings against Oštro brought by the Information Commissioner’s Office and the District State Prosecutor’s Office in Murska Sobota, which they view as politically motivated pressure on journalistic work. Oštro will present the Asset Detector website where we collect data on the assets of politicians, today, December 18, at a public editorial meeting in Velenje.
A movement originating in Ukraine has been spreading globally to systematically deliver climate disinformation under the guise of climate change awareness. Although its main premise — the world ending in 2036 — may seem fringe, its proponents recently secured an audience with Pope Francis and engaged a registered lobbyist to work on their behalf in the US.
For more than two years, the two companies of lawyer Peter Premk, brother of Freedom Movement MP Martin Premk, have had no restrictions on dealings with the National Assembly. Peter Premk was also a co-founder of the predecessor of the Freedom Movement (Gibanje Svoboda), where Finance Minister Klemen Boštjančič is now Vice-President. His ministry has transferred nearly 27 thousand euro to Premk’s company in a year.
In early September 2022, the wife of SDS MP Tomaž Lisec, then still employed in the public sector, opened a part-time sole proprietorship. Just a few days later, she signed a consultancy contract with the Rudolfovo Institute, which had been established by the government of Janez Janša (SDS). The sequence of events raises suspicions of a possible pre-arranged cooperation.
SDS MP Andrej Kosi used to live in a building that was officially categorised as a crop storehouse. The living situation of two MPs, who are residing in buildings with reported useful floor areas smaller than a couple public parking spaces, also remains unclear.
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