By: Moja Dolenjska
Millions of public funds have, over the past three years, flowed into companies whose owners are either senior officials of the Freedom Movement or their partners.
During this term, Prime Minister Robert Golob’s private company received €731,000 of taxpayer money; the company owned by the partner of MP Tamara Vonta received more than €2 million; MP Aleksander Prosen Kralj received nearly €500,000; and the same amount went to the company owned by the daughter of MP Miroslav Gregorič, in which the MP himself illegally served as procurator for three years.
Golob’s family budget is primarily filled through his company Star Solar. The state‑owned Borzen transferred €776,000 to him during this term in subsidies for solar‑energy production. At the same time, Golob, as a member of the government, appoints Borzen’s supervisory board. The parliamentary commission is investigating the questionable practices of Star Solar, but the coalition, holding the majority, has been obstructing its work. In the past two years, the commission has met only three times in urgent sessions. Clearly, there is no interest in investigating these questionable deals.
Aleksander Prosen Kralj draws state money through the company Dobre zgodbe, in which he is a co‑owner. Over the past three years, the company has effectively latched onto the state budget through public tenders. During this term, it has received funds not only from the Ministry of Health but also from the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Labour, the Ministry of Culture, and the Ministry of Solidarity‑Based Future. Adding the money from the Government Communication Office, the total reaches nearly a quarter of a million euros.
Miroslav Gregorič served as procurator in his daughter’s private dental company with a state concession, which received nearly €600,000 from the health‑insurance fund during this term.
But all of this is pocket change compared to Tamara Vonta. Her partner’s company has received an astonishing €2.1 million in concession payments in just three and a half years.