Croatian Parliament's Commission for Conflict of Interest decided on Friday to launch an investigation against former Economy Minister Martina Dalic.

The case against Dalic, who handed in her resignation on Monday, was opened last week after the publication of leaked e-mails revealing her correspondence with a group of consultants and lawyers from the private sector who had drafted the controversial Lex Agrokor bill in early 2017.

The Commission voted unanimously on Friday to launch a procedure on Dalic, for non-transparent appointment of members of the informal group which drafted the bill, as well as her repeated refusals to disclose the bill’s authors.

They said that the process to draft the bill had strayed from the regular legislative procedure, and that she was not transparent when claiming she was the bill’s sole author, or when she claimed at a February meeting of the Parliament’s committee for economy that she had no relations with Boris Savoric, a lawyer who later appeared to be a member of the group which had drafted the bill.

The Commission said it will now investigate to see if Dalic and the informal group were connected by a common interest.

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