Nearly Half of Addressed Politicians Are Cooperating With Our Asset Investigation
Oštro
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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.
Illustration: Šumrada Sinčić
In October*, as part of Oštro’s Asset Detector project which aims to increase the transparency of the activities of Slovenian politicians, we published data on the assets of Members of the European Parliament, new government officials and MPs, and the first six mayors. Today, we added information on the assets of the mayors of Brda, Domžale, Dobrna, Grosuplje, Koper, Maribor, Radenci, Ribnica, Semič, and Velenje, as well as MP Janja Rednjak who replaced her colleague Jani Prednik.
Before publication, each official is informed of our findings and given the opportunity to respond and to confirm, deny, or supplement the information. They are also asked to provide us with a copy of the asset declaration form they submitted to the Commission for the Prevention of Corruption in accordance with the law.
The following infographic shows how many officials responded to Oštro’s questions, and which ones are willing to publicly disclose their assets or those of their family members.
Among the 44 officials featured in the October and December editions of the Asset Detector, the largest group – nearly half – consists of those who took our journalistic work seriously and provided substantive answers to our questions. The MEPs were particularly responsive.
Sixteen percent of the officials covered in October and December sent us a complete inventory of their assets, as submitted to the anti-corruption commission. Three of them also provided us with a form detailing changes in their assets, which allows us to track wealth throughout their term of office.
Nine officials responded, but did not answer questions about their assets.
However, nearly a third of the officials, including a new MP, did not respond to our inquiry.
Oštro collects data on the assets of politicians exclusively through investigative and data journalism methods. Our journalists will continue to update all previously published data in the coming months, and we also plan to carry on the project by investigating the assets of additional politicians.
If you have knowledge of any assets held by public officials that are missing from our database, you can help us by sending tips to detektorpremozenja@ostro.si to be verified by our editorial team. If our journalists are able to confirm the information, they will add the asset to the database.
*The article in Slovene was published on December 17, 2025.