IN THIS MESSAGE YOU WILL FIND MENTIONED A DETAILED STATEMENT OF APPEAL WHICH HAS BEEN LODGED WITH THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA BY MR. MARIO JUTT, LAWYER TO THE PLAINTIFFS; MAJOR AND MRS MLADEN TARNAWA-KRUPA OF KARLOVAC.
THE KRUPAS FIRST MOVED TO CROATIA IN 1943. PRIOR TO THIS TIME MAJOR KRUPA'S FATHER – ALFRED - AND HIS FAMILY HAD BEEN MOVED FROM ONE NAZI DEATH CAMP TO ANOTHER. ALFRED'S SISTER HAD BEEN BURNED ALIVE BY THE GERMANS AND ALFRED HIMSELF ONLY SURVIVED THE GAS CHAMBER BY A FORTUITOUS ACT OF GOD. JUST AS THE GUARD WAS ABOUT TO CLOSE THE CHAMBER DOORS A RUSSIAN AIR FORCE SQUADRON DIVE-BOMBED THE CAMP AND BLEW IT INTO OBLIVION.
ALFRED MANAGED TO ESCAPE AMIDST ALL THE TERROR AND MAYHEM BUT LATER FOUND HIMSELF RECRUITED INTO THE AFRIKA KORPS WHO, OF ALL THINGS, TRAINED HIM FOR DESERT COMBAT BY SENDING HIM TO A BARRACKS NESTLED IN THE TIROLEAN MOUNTAINS.
ONCE HE HAD FINISHED HIS INDUCTION, RATHER THAN BEING SENT TO NORTH AFRICA, ALFRED – A POLISH JEW - FOUND HIMSELF BEING WHISKED OFF TO THE BALKANS WHERE HIS REGIMENT WAS SUPPOSED TO QUELL PARTISAN INSURGENCY AND LIASE WITH THE USTAZI AND THE HUNGARIANS, AND ASSIST WITH THE EXTERMINATION OF THE JEWISH POPULATION. HOWEVER, UNBEKNOWNST TO HIS NAZI SUPERIORS, ALFRED HAD OTHER PLANS ALTOGETHER.
A couple of days into his tour of duty his Company was annihilated by a platoon of Croatian Partisans. Again, Alfred managed to cheat death by hurling himself over a large rock only to find himself staring down the barrel of a partisan's rifle.
ALFRED TRIED TO EXPLAIN TO THE LAD THAT HE WAS POLISH BUT TO NO AVAIL. JUST AS THE CHAP WAS ABOUT TO PULL THE TRIGGER, A LITTLE OLD LADY FROM THE RED CROSS SUDDENLY JUMPED UP, PUNCHED THE PARTISAN, AND THE GUN DISCHARGED IN MID-AIR. DISCUSSIONS ENSUED AND ALFRED BEGAN HIS CAREER AS A CROATIAN PARTISAN IN CHARGE OF HEAVY GUN BATTERIES.
DURING THIS LATEST STAGE IN HIS MILITARY VOCATION ALFRED ASSISTED IN THE RESCUE OF WINSTON CHURCHILL'S SON, WHO HAD BEEN SHOT DOWN BY GERMAN ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS, AND HE LOYALLY SERVED HIS ADOPTED NATION WITH HONOUR AND DISTINCTION. WHEN HE RETIRED AFTER THE WAR HE WAS FETED AS A HIGHLY DECORATED, CROATIAN NATIONAL HERO.
ALFRED KRUPA MOVED TO KARLOVAC, MARRIED A LOCAL ETHNIC CROATIAN GIRL AND SPENT THE REST OF HIS REMAINING YEARS AS A CELEBRATED ARTIST, CONSIDERED TO ONE OF THE BEST WATERCOLOURISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY.
FORTY FIVE YEARS LATER ALFRED'S SON MLADEN CONTINUED THE FAMILY'S LOYAL MILITARY TRADITION. DURING THE BALKAN CONFLICT OF THE EARLY 1990'S MAJOR MLADEN KRUPA CO-FOUNDED THE KARLOVAC COUNTY REGIMENT OF THE CROATIAN ARMY OF LIBERATION AND ORGANIZED THEIR ENGINEERING UNITS. AS THE WAR CONTINUED MLADEN'S SON, ALFRED KRUPA JUNIOR, MANAGED TO DEFECT FROM THE YUGOSLAVIAN FORCES AND JOIN HIS FATHER AS A NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICER. BOTH MEN SERVED THE CROATIAN REPUBLIC WITH LOYALTY AND DISTINCTION AS THEIR SIRE, ALFRED SENIOR, HAD DONE BEFORE THEM.
FOR THREE GENERATIONS THE TARNAWA-KRUPA FAMILY HAVE BEEN LAUDED AS PROMINENT CROATIAN INTELLECTUALS AND ARTISTS. ALFRED KRUPA IS A LEADING PROFESSOR OF FINE ART, HIS WORKS ARE DISPLAYED IN KARLOVAC MUSEUM AND FORM A SUBSTANTIAL PART OF MANY PRIVATE COLLECTIONS BOTH IN CROATIA AND ACROSS THE WORLD. ALFRED IS A MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF ARTS, MANUFACTURERS AND COMMERCE IN LONDON; THE CROATIAN SOCIETY OF ARTS AND THE CROATIAN SOCIETY OF ART HISTORIANS IN ZAGREB. HIS OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC ACHEIVEMENTS HAVE BEEN EXHIBITED IN 16 SINGLE-ARTIST EXHIBITIONS ACROSS CROATIA, AND HAVE FORMED PART OF MANY OTHER EXHIBITIONS IN CROATIA AND GERMANY.
ALTHOUGH OF EARLY JEWISH ORIGIN, THE KRUPAS ARE BAPTISED CATHOLICS WHO DESCEND FROM AN ANCIENT POLISH NOBLE AND ROYAL FAMILY AND ALFRED KRUPA JUNIOR INTRODUCED AND ESTABLISHED THE WESTERN EUROPEAN CATHOLIC ORDER OF KNIGHTS TEMPLARS IN CROATIA, WHERE HE SUBSEQUENTLY HELD THE OFFICE OF GRAND PRIOR, ASSISTED BY HIS FATHER. ALFRED WAS BESTOWED WITH THE TITLE OF IMPERIAL CHEVALIER BY HIH CROWN PRINCE JACOBE WOSSEN, RECEIVED A TITULAR DUCHY OF JERUSALEM AND LATER SERVED IN THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS AS CHIEF OF PROTOCOL IN THE GRAND PRECEPTORY OF LA ROCHELLE.
THE KRUPA FAMILY HAD THEIR OWN VERY SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS; AUTOKRUPA LTD, CONSISTING OF AN ENGINEERING FACILITY AND A CAR DEALERSHIP WHOSE OFFICES WERE SITUATED BENEATH THE KRUPA RESIDENCE IN THE BEAUTIFUL PALACE OF KARLOVAC. THE BUSINESS HAD A METICULOUS TRACK RECORD WHEN IT CAME TO PAYING ITS OVERHEADS AND AT THE TIME OUR STORY BEGINS THE COMPANY WAS FINANCIALLY SOUND AND DEBT FREE.
SO ALL IN ALL THE FAMILY, WHO WERE FINANCIALLY WELL OFF AND OWNED THE EXTREMELY DESIRABLE PROPERTY THEY OCCUPIED, WERE WELL LIKED AND RESPECTED MEMBERS OF THEIR LOCAL COMMUNITY, AND RESPECTED MEMBERS OF THE CROATIAN NATIONAL FAMILY AT LARGE. THIS WAS PROBABLY THEIR DOWNFALL.
IN THE PLEA BY THE KRUPAS TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT IN ZAGREB, IN 2003 IT IS CLAIMED THAT THE FAMILY'S BANKERS - ZAGREBACKA BANKA D.D. OF ZAGREB, INVENTED A DEBT OF 30,000 EUROS AND CHARGED THIS NON-EXISTENT SUM TO AUTOKRUPA LTD, WHOSE GUARANTORS WERE MAJOR AND MRS MLADEN TARNAWA-KRUPA. MR. AND MRS KRUPA HAD OFFERED THEIR RESIDENCE – WORTH SOME 250,000 EUROS - TO THEIR BANKERS AS SURETY FOR THE FAMILY BUSINESS, WHICH WAS BEING RUN BY ALFRED.
ON 14TH APRIL 2003 THE BANK FILED A SUIT OF DISTRAINT AGAINST AUTOKRUPA LTD IN THE MUNICIPAL COURT OF KARLOVAC. THE COURT ENFORCED THE ORDER IN THE BANK'S FAVOUR ON THE 18TH OF THAT MONTH. THE KRUPAS FILED A COMPLAINT WITH THE SAME COURT, STATING THAT THE DEBT DIDN'T EXIST AND THAT TO CLAIM THAT IT DID, EVEN TO THE AMOUNT REQUIRED BY THE BANK (PLUS INTEREST) WAS TOTALLY UNJUSTIFIABLE. THE COURT IGNORED THIS AND FAILED TO DIRECT THE FAMILY TO FILE A SUIT OF INADMISSIBILITY OF DESTRAINT. THE NAMES OF THE PRESIDENT AND PRESIDING JUDGE IN THIS STAGE OF THE CASE CAN BE FOUND BELOW.
HOWEVER, ON THE ADVICE OF THEIR ATTORNEY, THE KRUPAS DID FILE THE COUNTER SUIT OF DESTRAINT IN OCTOBER 2003 AND THIS WAS HEARD IN THE MUNICIPAL COURT IN KARLOVAC AND, SURPRISE SURPRISE, THE PRESIDING JUDGE WAS THE SAME ONE WHO HAD EARLIER FOUND IN FAVOUR OF THE BANK WHO HAD INVENTED THE KRUPA DEBT OUT OF NOTHING AND STOPPED THE COMPANY FROM TRADING.
ALTHOUGH FILED IN 2003, THE KRUPAS COUNTERSUIT AGAINST THE BANK'S FRAUDULENT DESTRAINT WASN'T ALLOWED TO BE HEARD UNTIL 13TH NOVEMBER 2007, FOUR YEARS AFTER THE INITIAL KRUPA COUNTERSUIT WAS PRESENTED TO THIS SURPRISINGLY INTERESTED JUDGE. BY THIS TIME A HEALTHY FOUR YEARS INTEREST ON THE INVENTED AUTOKRUPA DEBT HAD BEEN INCURRED, AND THE SPACE OF TIME IN WHICH THE CASE FINALLY CAME TO COURT HAD BEEN DECLARED TO BE OVERLONG AND ILLEGAL.
SO BY THIS TIME WE HAVE A FAMILY WHOSE ABILITY TO EARN AN INCOME HAD BEEN TAKEN FROM THEM AND HAVE BEEN LEFT MORE OR LESS DESTITUTE, BUT THERE'S MORE TO COME.
ON THE 6TH NOVEMBER 2007, DESPITE NUMEROUS COMPLAINTS AND ATTEMPTED ACTIONS BY THE FAMILY, THE SAME JUDGE IGNORED ALL THEIR PLEAS AGAINST THIS INJUSTICE AND SOLD AT AUCTION THE FAMILY HOME AND CONTENTS AT KARLOVAC PALACE, WHICH HOUSED TWELVE PEOPLE, FOR A SCANDALOUSLY LOW PRICE (SOURCE: MARIO JUTT), TO A PERSON CALLED VESNA RODIC OF ZAGREB. THIS SAME JUDGE SEEMS TO HAVE FORGOTTEN TO PAY THE BANK THE MONEY THEY DEMANDED FROM THE KRUPAS AND, THE LAWYER CLAIMS, THE WHOLE POINT OF THE EXERCISE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN TO ENGINEER, USING LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURE, THE SALE OF THE KRUPA HOME AND BELONGINGS TO VESNA RODIC FROM ZAGREB, FOR VIRTUALLY NOTHING.
REMEMBER, THE JUDGE – MR JOSIP STRUCELJ – WHO SEEMS TO HAVE GONE OUT OF HIS WAY TO ATTEND TO ALL STAGES OF THESE CORRUPT AND REPREHENSIBLE PROCEEDINGS, AND HAS EVEN BEEN SAID TO HAVE MADE SERIOUS PERSONAL THREATS TO MR. MARIO JUTT THE KRUPA'S DEFENCE LAWYER (CHC). ACCORDING TO THE SAME LAWYER, MR. STRUCELJ NEVER HAD ANY INTENTIONS OF AWARDING THE AMOUNT OF THE ULTIMATE DEBT TO THE BANK, WHICH AMOUNT AND ITS INITIAL JUSTIFICATION WERE NEVER DIVULGED BY HIM.
PERHAPS SOMEONE TOOK A SHINE TO THE KARLOVAC PALACE APARTMENTS OWNED BY THE FAMILY AND, FANCYING A HOLIDAY HOME WHERE THEY COULD TAKE NICE WEEKEND BREAKS FROM ALL THE HUSTLE AND BUSTLE OF DOWNTOWN ZAGREB, DECIDED TO INITIATE BEHIND-THE-SCENES PROCEEDINGS OF THEIR OWN, STARTING MAYBE WITH A PAY-OFF TO THE BANK AND ENDING UP, THROUGH NUMEROUS LEGAL (OR SHOULD I APPARENTLY ILLEGAL) COURT ACTIONS WHICH, TODAY, LEAVE THE KRUPAS FACING EVICTION ON 12TH JANUARY 2010.
THROUGH THOROUGH RESEARCH IT HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED THAT THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT THE KARLOVAC COURTS HAVE EVER ATTEMPTED TO EVICT A FAMILY (WITH YOUNG CHILDREN) AND LEAVE THEM WANDERING THE STREETS, WITH NOWHERE TO GO, IN THE DEPTHS OF THE HARSH, FREEZING CROATIAN MIDWINTER. AND THIS HAS BEEN ORDERED, WE WILL REMEMBER, BY JUDGE JOSIP STRUCELJ.
THE KRUPAS FOUGHT THE INITIAL EVICTION ORDERS ON APPEAL AND SO FAR THEY HAVE BEEN ABLE, BY THE SKIN OF THEIR TEETH, TO AVOID HOMELESSNESS. AS YOU WILL SEE FROM THE KRUPAS APPEAL TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT IN ZAGREB, THE CHC – THE CROATIAN HELSINKI COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS – WHICH HELPS FIGHT CORRUPTION, FRAUD AND ILLEGAL IRREGULARITIES BECAME INVOLVED. ON 20TH NOVEMBER 2008 THE CHAIRMAN OF THE CHC, MR. IVO BANAC, WROTE TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT, A LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA, AND A LETTER TO THE MINISTRY OF PHYSICAL PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION. WELL OVER A YEAR LATER, NONE OF THESE INDIVIDUALS HAS BOTHERED TO REPLY.
WHY? IS IT LETHARGY AND INDIFFERENCE? IS IT THAT THEY WANT THE SITUATION TO GO AWAY, AND SO THEY ARE BURYING THEIR HEADS IN THE SAND LIKE A FLOCK OF OSTRICHES, OR IS IT BECAUSE THEY TOO HAVE SKELETONS IN THEIR CLOSETS? IT WOULDN'T BE SURPRISING. BY ALL ACCOUNTS CORRUPTION AND FRAUD ARE ENDEMIC TO THE CROATIAN WAY OF LIFE AND, WITHOUT ITS PRESENCE AT MANY LEVELS OF THE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, LEGISLATIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE, IT IS STATED AUTHORITATIVELY THAT THE CROATIAN REPUBLIC WOULD COLLAPSE.
BECAUSE NOTHING IS BEING DONE INSIDE CROATIA, PERHAPS THE GOVERNMENT WILL TAKE A BIT MORE NOTICE IF THE KRUPA CASE IS AIRED INTERNATIONALLY. TO THIS END, THIS DOCUMENT OF PROTEST HAS BEEN SENT TO OVER 5000 CONTACTS WORLDWIDE AND IN ALSO CROATIA ITSELF. THESE CONTACTS WILL SEND IT TO THOUSANDS OF OTHER CONTACTS, INCLUDING TV, RADIO AND NEWSPAPER JOURNALISTS INTERNATIONALLY. THE KRUPA CASE IS NOT AN ISOLATED INCIDENT, IT IS WOVEN INTO WHAT SEEMS TO BE A FAR REACHING WEB OF UBIQUITOUS, OFFICIALLY SANCTIONED CULTURE OF CORRUPTION; OF FRAUD, INTIMIDATION, PERSECUTION AND MAFIA MURDERS.
(SOURCE: 'JAVNO')
SINCE THIS TRAGIC ABOMINATION BEGAN A DECADE AGO THE KRUPA FAMILY SAY THEY HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED TO LEGAL HARASSMENT AND THREATS, THEY HAVE BEEN SUMMONED TO THE KARLOVAC COURTS ON THE WHIM OF THIS SAME JUDGE, WHEN THEY WERE NOT EVEN SCHEDULED TO APPEAR BEFORE THE BENCH, WHO THEN, BECAUSE OF THE KRUPA'S UNWITTING ABSENCE WERE ARRESTED BY THE LOCAL POLICE ON THE ORDERS OF THE SELF SAME JUDGE AND WERE DETAINED FOR NO REASON AT ALL.
ACCORDING TO MARIO JUTT A CERTAIN SPECIALISED “FAMILY” (ID EST “MAFIOSI”) HAVE BEEN REGULARLY USED TO CLEAR CADASTRES AND LAND REGISTRIES IN THIS AND NUMEROUS OTHER CASES INVOLVING OTHER FAMILIES, AND THREATS TO ONE JOURNALIST'S LIFE WERE MADE WHEN THEY PUBLISHED THE KRUPA STORY(CHC). THE KRUPAS HAVE BEEN PHYSICALLY THROWN OUT OF THE COURT, DOWN THE STEPS OF THE BUILDING AND ONTO THE STREET WHEN POSSIBLY THE JUDGE DIDN'T LIKE THE DIRECTION OF THEIR EVIDENCE. THEY, AND MRS KRUPA IN PARTICULAR, SAY THEY HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED, OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS SINCE THIS VICTIMISATION BEGAN, TO DEPLORABLE AND TOTALLY UNCONSCIONABLE VERBAL ABUSE ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS BY THE COURTS AND TWO WEEKS AGO THE COURT ACTUALLY RULED THAT THEY SHOULD HAVE THEIR FAMILY PET, A BULLDOG, DESTROYED. WHY?
BECAUSE, DESPITE BEING BAPTISED CATHOLICS AND DESPITE BEING LOYAL AND HEROIC CITIZENS OF THE REPUBLIC, THEY ARE KNOWN TO BE ULTIMATELY OF HEBREW DESCENT AND THIS, CYNICALLY, AND FURTIVELY, BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN DECIDED TO BE SUFFICIENT AN EXCUSE, AND CAUSE ENOUGH, TO TARGET THE KRUPAS IN A CAMPAIGN OF RELENTLESS, RUTHLESS AND CHRONIC SUBLIMINAL RACE HATRED AND VICTIMISATION, FUELLED BY THE GREED, JEALOUSY AND ENVY OF THE MAFIA IT WOULD APPEAR WHO, IT IS CLAIMED, ARE SUPPORTED BY LOW PAID JUDGES WHO USE THEIR POWERS TO DO THE BIDDING OF THEIR MOB MASTERS, AND WHO USE THE POLICE AS THEIR OWN PRIVATE MILITIA (CHC).
CROATIA HOPES FOR ABSORBTION INTO PAN EUROPA AND IS TO NEGOTIATE MEMBERSHIP OF THE EUROPEAN UNION. IF EVERYTHING WE HEAR IS TRUE THEN WE HAVE TO ASK OURSELVES WHETHER WE, AS EUROPEANS, WISH TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH AN OPPRESSIVE, BANKRUPT REGIME WHICH IS, TO ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES, GOVERNED ON MANY LEVELS BY A CROATIAN PEASANT, WANNABE VERSION OF THE ITALIAN MAFIA. AS A POINT OF IDLE INTEREST THE READER MIGHT LIKE TO KNOW THAT, AFTER THE BALKAN WAR, ZAGREBACKA BANKA D.D. OF ZAGREB, WAS BOUGHT OUT BY THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT. WHILST BEING A SUBSIDIARY WITHIN THE ITALIAN BANKING SYSTEM, ZAGREACKA BANKA HAVE ILLEGALLY PULLED OUT THE RUG FROM BENEATH THE KRUPA FAMILY, AND WE HAVE HEARD NO CRIES OF OBJECTION, AND NO EXORTATIONS TO CEASE AND DESIST, COMING FROM THE DIRECTION OF THEIR ITALIAN MASTERS, WHO MUST HAVE KNOWN WHAT THEIR CROATIAN ACQUISITION WAS UP TO. DOES THIS SUGGEST JOINT CULPABILITY AND TACIT APPROVAL ON THE PART OF THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT?
I HAVE EVERY FAITH IN MADAM PRIME MINISTER JADRANKA KOSOR, WHO SAID RECENTLY IN CROATIA'S NEWSPAPER 'JAVNO', THAT “EVERYONE INVOLVED IN CORRUPTION WILL PAY A HEAVY PRICE”. SHE IS CLEARLY DETERMINED TO ACT, BUT HAVING LOOKED AT THE RESEARCH AND THE FINDINGS OF THE HELSINKI COMMISSION, SHE WILL FACE HEAVY RESISTANCE IN TRYING TO ERADICATE WHAT HAS BEEN FOR GENERATIONS AFTER ALL, A POPULAR AND VERY LUCRATIVE NATIONAL HOBBY.
ANY CORRESPONDENT HERETO WHO WISHES TO READ EXAMPLES OF NATIONAL CORRUPTION, OR WOULD LIKE TO STUDY THE REPORTS ON THE WEAKNESS, LISTLESSNESS AND FATALISM WHICH NOW COMPRISES THE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF THE CROATIA GRASSROOTS POPULATION, AND WHICH PREVENTS THEM FROM TAKING A UNITED STAND IN THE FACE OF INSTITUTIONALISED CORRUPTION AND OPPRESSION, ARE ENCOURAGED TO FIND THE MOST RECENT COPY OF 'JAVNO' ON THE NET
(HTTP://WWW.JAVNO.COM/HR-HRVATSKA/KRUPA--KAZNENO-SMO-PRIJAVILI-NADANA-VIDOSEVICA_205346 ) THE REPORTS FROM CROATIA'S MOST PROMINENT AND INFLUENTIAL PSYCHOLOGISTS MAKES ABSORBING READING.
The Tarnawa-Krupas are decent, loyal and law-abiding citizens. They love their country and they love their Croatian brothers and sisters and do not wish to be forced to flee their homeland. However, in the face of such apparently unyielding and sustained racial cruelty, and now in fear for their very safety and physical existence, the Krupas are forced unwillingly to consider moving from their beloved republic and to seek refugee status in Europe before, as they fear, that they too will pay the ultimate price for being Jewish and successful.
FINALLY, IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED THAT CROATIA HAS OPENED ITS DOORS TO FOREIGN HOLIDAY MAKERS AND IS KEEN TO BENEFIT FROM THE INFLUX OF OVERSEAS CURRENCY INJECTED INTO THE ECONOMY VIA TOURISM. IT IS ALSO VERY KEEN TO MARKET ITS VACANT PROPERTIES AS HOLIDAY HOMES TO PEOPLE LIVING OUTSIDE THE REPUBLIC. TWO POINTS ARISE IN OPPOSITION TO THESE FINANCIAL AMBITIONS.
1.WHAT FOREIGN NATIONAL WOULD WANT TO RISK VISITING A COUNTRY THAT, HOWEVER SCENIC AND BEAUTIFUL, WOULD, BY ALL OUTWARD APPEARANCES, ALLOW ITS POLICE AND ITS LEGISLATURE TO BE CONTROLLED BY ITS OWN HOMEGROWN MAFIA, WHEN, IT IS CLAIMED, THAT LEGISLATURE USES THE POLICE TO ARREST AND DETAIN ITS OWN PEOPLE AT WHIM?
2.Who would buy a holiday home in Croatia knowing now that, if the mafia wanted the property for themselves, they could easily pressurize or bribe government officials to conveniently lose their property deeds and thereby force an eviction, resulting in the loss of the foreign investor's life savings, a tragic situation for which they may have no redress in Croatian law at all? If the government allows this to happen to their own people, not only to the Krupas, but to numerous other Croatian families as well, as stated by the Croatian Helsinki Commission, then it forces the very serious question; what level of indifference to, or culpability in, the blatant theft of property would then pertain, when it belonged to a foreign national?
THE ONLY SENSIBLE ADVICE HERE WOULD BE, IN THE INTERIM, TO WARN FOREIGN NATIONALS IN THE STRONGEST OF TERMS TO AVOID THE REPUBLIC, AND TO PLEAD WITH EUROPEAN AND OVERSEAS COMPANIES TO THINK TWICE BEFORE SINKING GOOD CASH INTO A DEAD LOSS.
AS 'JAVNO' HAS ALREADY REPORTED, ONE FOREIGN BUSINESS HAS HAD TO SHELL OUT CONSIDERABLE SUMS IN BRIBES TO OFFICIALS IN ORDER TO SECURE THEIR POSITIONS IN THE CROATIAN MARKETPLACE, AT THE COST OF MILLIONS OF KUNAS IN LOST REVENUE TO THE STATE.
IMAGINE THE SIZE THAT CORPORATE SLUSH-FUNDS MIGHT HAVE TO REACH IF SERIOUS BUSINESS WAS BEING NEGOTIATED. ALSO CONSIDER THAT BY BEING FORCED TO DO BUSINESS THIS WAY, FOREIGN INVESTORS MIGHT WELL BE RESPONSIBLE THEMSELVES FOR RE-ENFORCING AND PERPETUATING AN ENDEMIC CULTURE OF CORRUPTION WHICH MAY ULTIMATELY COST THE CROATIAN GOVERNMENT BILLIONS OF KUNA.
SUCH A DEFICIT WOULD INEVITABLY HAVE TO BE PASSED DOWN TO THE INNOCENT MAN ON THE STREET, LEAVING THE NATION AND ITS PEOPLE DESTITUTE, AND ANY PROSPECT OF FUTURE OUTSIDE INVESTMENT UNTENABLE. THOSE COMPANIES WHO MIGHT THEN HAVE ALREADY INVESTED MILLIONS OF EUROS OR DOLLARS IN THE REPUBLIC MIGHT STAND TO LOSE EVERYTHING THAT THEY HAD PLOUGHED INTO THE ECONOMY.
PERSONALLY, WHEN IT COMES TO THE EUROPEAN UNION INVESTING ITS CITIZENS HARD-EARNED TAX EUROS INTO A STATE THAT UNOFFICIALLY, MIGHT EASILY USE THE CASH TO ALLOW GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TO BUY FLASH CARS, OR TO OWN PRESTIGIOUS HOLIDAY APARTMENTS IN DUBROVNIC, OR TO FINANCE REGULAR EXPENSIVE HOLIDAYS ABROAD, THE SIMPLE QUESTION IF SUCH MIGHT PERTAIN WOULD BE “WHY ON EARTH SHOULD WE ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN”?
ESPECIALLY WHEN THAT MONEY MIGHT ALSO BE USED TO PROP UP AN ECONOMY THAT SEEMS FOREVER TO BE TEETERING ON THE BRINK OF COLLAPSE WHICH, IF INDEED IT DID, MIGHT COST THE EU BILLIONS, AND THAT LOSS WOULD EVENTUALLY HAVE TO BE PAID FOR IN INCREASED TAXES TAKEN OUT OF OUR POCKETS. WE HAVE ALREADY SUFFERED A RECESSION CAUSED BY THE GREED AND STUPIDITY OF THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL COMMUNITY, IN THE NEAR FUTURE, WITH THEIR IMPENDING EU MEMBERSHIP BEING CONSIDERED, WOULD CONSTANTLY BANK-ROLLING A COUNTRY LIKE CROATIA RESULT IN ANY DIFFERENT A FISCAL SCENARIO IN THE LONG TERM?
I THINK IT WOULD BE WONDERFUL, IF NOT A POLITICAL MIRACLE, IF MADAM JADRANKA KOSOR AND HER SUCCESSORS COULD SERIOUSLY ADDRESS THESE SAD, UNFORTUNATE PROBLEMS, AND BRING THE REPUBLIC INTO THE UNION, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE STATE AS A WHOLE, AND BY EXTENSION, FOR THE LASTING BENEFIT OF THE LONG SUFFERING CROATIAN PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR. GOOD LUCK.
FINALLY, I MUST THANK THE READERS FOR THEIR PATIENCE IN ADDRESSING THEMSELVES TO THIS PROBLEM. MY CORRESPONDENCE HAS HAD, BY NECESSITY, TO BE EXTENSIVE AND COMPREHENSIVE, IN ORDER THAT THE READERS MAY HAVE SOME APPRECIATION OF THE SEEMINGLY INSURMOUNTABLE SERIOUSNESS OF THE CRISIS THAT THE KRUPA FAMILY HAS TO FACE. A CRISIS WHICH, IF LEFT TO PUBLIC AND POLITICAL INDIFFERENCE, WILL RESULT IN THE CONTINUED DESTITUTION AND ULTIMATELY TO THE COMPLETELY ILLEGAL AND CORRUPT EVICTION OF A PERFECTLY DECENT AND INNOCENT FAMILY AND THEIR YOUNG CHILDREN, WHO WILL BE LEFT TO WANDER THE STREETS IN THE HARSH DEPTHS OF WINTER. AND WITH NO FIXED ADDRESS, ANY POSSIBILITY OF EARNING ANY FORM OF INCOME TO FEED THE FAMILY AND THE CHILDREN WILL DISSIPATE ENTIRELY. PLEASE DON'T ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN.
THIS IS NOW A MATTER OF INTERNATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, AND IF THROUGH INDIFFERENCE, THESE APPARENTLY CORRUPT, RACIST INDIVIDUALS ARE ALLOWED TO WIN THE DAY, IT WILL THEN BECOME A MATTER OF INTERNATIONAL CULPABILITY.
LETTERS OF SUPPORT AND INTENDED ACTION MAY BE SENT TO PROFESSOR ALFRED KRUPA AND HIS FAMILY AT mladen.krupa@gmail.com
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