By: Moja Dolenjska
Former Director General of Police Senad Jušić will have to stand trial due to suspicions of corruption. On Friday, the Special Department for the Investigation and Prosecution of Officials with Special Powers within the Specialised State Prosecutor’s Office filed a request for an investigation against Jušić, Večer reported.
Prosecutors suspect that Jušić incited the criminal offense of accepting benefits for unlawful intervention, an offense punishable by a fine and up to four years in prison.
Specifically, in January of last year, Jušić allegedly tried to influence state prosecutor Mateja Gončin during a meeting, urging her to intervene with a fellow prosecutor who was handling Jušić’s criminal complaint against the former acting Director General of Police, Boštjan Lindav, concerning a supposedly controversial employment matter. Jušić reportedly hinted that if the complaint against Lindav were upheld, he would invite her to a candlelit dinner, something Gončin later stated publicly in December, claiming she had material evidence to support her allegation. Lindav had been a thorn in the side of Prime Minister Robert Golob, and by extension also to Jušić, since Lindav had exposed Golob’s alleged attempts to engage in political staffing within the police force.
Due to the inappropriate and corrupt offer, prosecutor Gončin filed a criminal complaint against Jušić. Initially, the Special Department of the Specialised State Prosecutor’s Office almost entirely dismissed her complaint, prompting her to submit over one hundred pages of requests for specific investigative actions to the Ljubljana District Court, targeting ten employees of the Police and the Centre for Security and Protection.
According to unofficial reports from Večer, the court proceedings are expected to reveal events that should never occur within the police force, including why prosecutor Luka Virant, from the Special Department of the Specialised State Prosecutor’s Office, dismissed most of Gončin’s criminal complaint.