The Office for Suppression of Corruption and Organised Crime (USKOK) on Wednesday requested pre-trial detention for former prosecutor Mirela Aleric-Puklin, former Agrokor board member Piruska Canjuga, former director of the Croatian lottery company, Zeljko Fadljevic, and two businessmen.

One of those businessmen is Goran Puklin, the husband of Mirela Aleric-Puklin, and the other is Tomislav Gligora, the owner of the Fleksbit company.

The five were arrested on Tuesday on charges of abuse of office, conspiracy to commit white-collar crimes and obstruction of justice.

Mirela Aleric-Puklin, who was one of the prosecutors in the Agrokor case until 2019, is believed to have leaked important pieces of information from the Agrokor investigation to Canjuga, and the information was conveyed by Aleric-Puklin’s husband Goran Puklin.

The second part of the investigation in this case of obstruction of justice alleges that Goran Puklin made it possible for Gligora’s company Fleksbit to conclude deals with Hrvatska Lutrija, the national lottery of Croatia, in collusive tendering processes in order to gain an unfair advantage.

The deals, concluded in unfair practices, benefited Fleksbit, which was awarded an HRK 8.2 million job of procuring IT services for Hrvatska Lutrija.