The tax fraud unit of the anti-corruption office USKOK, which has been operating as part of the Tax Administration since 1 January 2017, filed, from that date to October 9 this year, 22 reports against 298 natural persons and legal entities for tax fraud and white-collar crime, Jutarnji List daily said on Wednesday.

This information was provided by the Tax Administration following unofficial reports that investigators working on white-collar crimes had also worked on the JANAF corruption case.

Jutarnji List has learned from unofficial sources that tax fraud investigators established, already in their preliminary report, discrepancies in the value of former JANAF CEO Dragan Kovacevic’s property and earnings even though they are still working on the case.

The Tax Administration has officially confirmed having worked on the case but could not say more due to tax secrecy.

Since 1 July 2017 tax fraud investigators have discovered cases of fraud amounting to HRK 1.3 billion, of which 70% refers to the Agrokor food and retail conglomerate, while discrepancies between the property investigated and earnings totalled HRK 20.5 million.

Possible discrepancies in the value of one’s property and income are determined at the request of USKOK.

Investigators have discovered tax evasion in the amount of HRK 178.7 million, cases of siphoning money from and defrauding companies in the amount of HRK 1.031 billion, of which around HRK 900 million refers to Agrokor alone, while subvention fraud amounts to HRK 18.6 million.

In the same period, investigators checked properties in 92 cases, finding discrepancies in their value in relation to the owners’ earnings in 18 cases involving 108 people.