Economy and Sustainable Development Minister Tomislav Coric said on Thursday that he was not sure that having future CEOs of state-run companies undergo security checks would prevent situations such as the JANAF case.

Asked ahead of a government session whether people assuming a position of leadership in a state company should undergo a security check, Coric said that whenever we were in a situation when there was suspicion of criminal activities then everyone had to make a conclusion that the answer was “yes”.

“However, things like that are simply not supposed to happen. I am not sure if such situations could be avoided even if there was a security check,” the minister said, noting that he would support the introduction of security checks.

He added that the person who would be appointed acting director of state-run oil pipeline operator JANAF could only be appointed for a shorter period of time, until the appointment of a new one through a public competition.

Asked whether he would request an internal inspection to see how much business JANAF did with Petek’s Elektrocentar company, he said that the public already pretty much knew the value of the contracts in question, and that every legal entity, and even reporters, could request this information from JANAF.