We have expanded the Asset Detector project to include the financial disclosures of ten mayors and one member of parliament. The infographics below show how public officials responded to Oštro’s findings.
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In the first half of the year 2025, the Commission for the Prevention of Corruption fined two officials and issued warnings to four others for breaching restrictions on business activity. Half of these measures were taken following questions from Oštro’s journalists as part of the Asset Detector project. Warnings were issued to Alenka Jeraj, Andrej Kosi, and Martin Premk.
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We have published the asset data of MEPs, new government officials and MPs, and the first six mayors in the new edition of the Asset Detector. The mayors were selected through a public vote, but not everyone was thrilled with the outcome. The Municipality of Ljutomer namely reported Oštro to the Specialized State Prosecutor’s Office and the Information Commissioner.
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Following Oštro’s revelation that Minister Aleksander Jevšek’s ‘garage’ does not comply with the issued building permit, as it is a Pannonian house, the minister has told other media outlets that “the process of changing the intended use of this allegedly controversial building has been underway since the beginning of last year”. However, the Murska Sobota Administrative Unit this week informed Oštro that they have no record of a request for a change of use in this specific case.
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In 2021, the Murska Sobota Administrative Unit issued a permit to the then mayor of Murska Sobota, now Minister of Cohesion, Aleksander Jevšek, to build a small partially open garage with a canopy. About a year later, a building that is almost half too large and resembles a Pannonian house stands on the site of the planned garage.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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More than 42% of the current MPs have not declared to the Commission for the Prevention of Corruption any related companies that the National Assembly is not allowed to do business with. Only 23% of the 88* MPs decided to cooperate at least partially with journalists, while the others remained silent or made excuses, claiming compliance with legal obligations.
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Only 19 of the 50 state secretaries provided Oštro with copies of their asset forms. In the second installment of the Asset Detector project, we find that the main issues are in understanding and declaring companies linked to family members.
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Oštro has developed a new interactive project Zvezoskop – the “Relationscope”, which allows the public to independently research the links between current ministers, secretaries of state and MPs. Of the 160 elected officials, as many as 40% were new to politics, while others were moving between politics and business.
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At least five Slovenian portals which are sources of disinformation or disseminate disinformation earned advertising euros through the Google AdSense platform in 2021 and 2022, Oštro can reveal. Advertisers could block advertising on disinformation portals, but they do not.
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In Slovenia, no one except the Commission for the Prevention of Corruption knows what assets high-ranking officials own. They cannot judge whether they are gaining illicitly from holding public office. This is why Oštro has decided to turn the light on for the public and track politicians' assets in the Asset Detector.
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Disgraced former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner personally funded an ethnically divisive disinformation campaign in Trinidad and Tobago designed by an election engineering firm to discourage black Trinidadians from voting.
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Katerina Tikhonova, the daughter of the Russian president, visited Slovenia at least five times between 2014 and 2019. Even though the visit was not by a foreign leader but by his daughter, the authorities should have been notified of visits by Tikhonova in advance. It is not clear if they were.
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