Great Britain Freezes 5 Million Euros of HSS Donor

Authorities in Great Britain froze a five million euro transaction to a controversial Croatian entrepreneur involved in various scandals.

ZAGREB, CROATIA – British authorities have frozen the payment of five million euros by a Croatian businessman, Andrija Kevic, which was to go to Serbia. Due to the suspicious character of the transaction, as well as because of a notification by Croatian investigators, the transaction was frozen. 

Since late 1990’s Andrija Kevic has been suspected of selling offices in the name of the Mesopromet company and took commission for it, the Jutarnji list daily reports.

He also owned a company with the killed Croatian reporter Ivo Pukanic, which dealt with investments into real-estate. He was also close to Croatian Peasants’ Party’s (HSS) Ante Markov, the JANAF pipeline CEO, so he was involved in financing the HSS’s campaign.

Be built a villa with Pukanic and took his daughter on a trip 

Kevic was charged with unconscientiously doing business and fraud in Mesopromet in 1996 and 1998. In 2000 he spent six months in detention.

In January 2006 he bought the “Jugoslavija” hotel in Belgrade for 31.3 million euros. But an influential entrepreneur from Republika Srpska negotiated the purchase of the hotel on his behalf and Kevic never paid for his services. Due to the tense relations with people who helped him buy the hotel, Kevic requested the services of an owned of a security company.

Recently, Mirjana Pukanic, Ivo Pukanic’s widow, protested over the fact that Kevic took her underage daughter for a trip to London. But Kevic got permission from child welfare and police to take her to London because he was Pukanic’s close friend. They made joint investments into the shares of the Jadranska Banka and built a villa in Zagreb.