Professor Takes Football Tickets as a Bribe

We reveal the whole system of corruption at the transport faculty and results of the police and corruption office’s investigation.

ZAGREB, CROATIA - The business of selling exams flourished at Zagreb’s Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences. With access to reliable documents, we saw that a great deal of the profitable business was organized by the student Mladen Budor from Sesvete.

He was the organizer and mediator for the sale of grades from certain tests between the professors and students, which as the current investigation reveals, were not shy in giving and receiving bribes.

Budor ensured that the following students, as well as others, got grades for numerous subjects: Domagoj Jovic, Marko Mihaljevic, Tomislav Jagetic, Irma Abaz and Vjekoslav Litvic.

Mediators had their “pawns”

Besides Budor, others that continually sought students interested in paying for grades without taking an exam were: the law graduate Zlatko Radosevic, the graduated transport engineer Josip Maric, the graduated transport engineer Ante Bilusic, the master’s degree holder of traffic sciences Ante Kujundzic and economist Bozidar Bojic. Together, they will all be charged with cooperating in order to commit a criminal act.

Of course, all of the act were done in agreement with the professors: Dammar Bozicevic, Dragan Badnjak, Jerko Rados, Velimir Kolar, Sanja Marusic, Ivan Bosnjak, Marina Manucci, the assistant Miroslav Vujic and a faculty staff member Nerina Puskaric.

The organizers, which because of conspiring to commit an offence could serve three or more years in prison, found “pawns” who did the physical job of making the agreements with the professors. The people they trusted were Stjepan Clekovic, Ivan Pasalic, Oliver Frljak and Josip Djakovic.

Croatia Vs England football tickets as a bribe

For giving grades, the usual payment was money, of which a part went to the professors, and a part was left to compensate the mediators.

However, sometimes money was not enough.

At the start of September, professor Damir Bozicevic accepted a call from the suspected Mladen Knezovic, a police officer from Zagreb.

In the telephone conversation he asked for help in transferring the son in law of his friend Ante Malenice, named Mislav Korak, from the Faculty of Law to the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences. The next day, Bozicevic allegedly met with Korak and explained the needed procedure during transfer to him, and later asked for 500 euros for the favour. Amongst other things, Bozicevic asked about tickets to the football match between Croatia and England, so Knezovic bought four tickets which he gave him.

Police wire-tapped the telephones

Also, for a few hundred euros, grades were changed and failed tests were erased. This is how the father of the student Domagoj Jovic paid Mladen Budor 700 euros to get a grade with professor Sanja Marusic. His son already failed the test in the subject “Mathematics 2”, but the grade was changed to the minimum passing grade of 2.

A large number of incriminating documents, exam application forms, were found during the searches of the suspects’ apartments. As we found out unofficially, the police had been wire-tapping the telephone conversations of the mediators and the communication at the transport faculty.

Below is a list of names of those suspected for buying/selling exams at the transport faculty, and the charges that will be brought against them:

Suspected professors and officials of the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences

Dragan Badanjak - accepting bribes

Jerko Rados - accepting bribes

Antun Sretic - accepting bribes

Damir Bozicevic - accepting bribes, being an intermediary

Velimir Kolar - accepting bribes

Sanja Marusic - accepting bribes

Ivan Bosnjak - accepting bribes

Marina Manucci - accepting bribes

Miroslav Vujic – abuse of position and powers

Nerina Puskaric - accepting bribes

Organized group for the business of selling grades

Mladen Budor - giving bribes, cooperating to commit a crime

Zlatko Radosevic - giving bribes, cooperating to commit a crime

Josip Maric - giving bribes, cooperating to commit a crime

Oliver Frljak - giving bribes, cooperating to commit a crime

Josip Djakovic - giving bribes, cooperating to commit a crime

Ivan Pasalic - giving bribes, cooperating to commit a crime

Ante Bilusic - cooperating to commit a crime

Ante Kujundzic - cooperating to commit a crime

Stjepan Celkovic - cooperating to commit a crime

Bozidar Boic - cooperating to commit a crime

Users of the service of grade sales

Zeljko Jovic – giving bribes

Marko Mihaljevic – giving bribes

Ivan Kutle – giving bribes

Vjekoslav Litvic – giving bribes

Irma Abaz – giving bribes

Jurica Sokec – giving bribes

Josko Musan – giving bribes

Damir Musan – giving bribes