PM sacks economy minister and his special adviser

Filipovic's dismissal came after the Nacional weekly ran an article saying that his special adviser Lovrincevic offered to the Zagreb-based local television network Mreza TV to lease advertising space to a number of state companies and institutions, in return asking for half of the agreed amount to be paid to him. The weekly released an audio recording of a conversation between Lovrincevic and a Mreza TV reporter.

A government press release said that Lovrincevic was relieved of all duties to which he had been appointed by the government, including as a member of the crisis response team on the security of gas supply, a member of the Management Board of the Environmental Protection and Energy Efficiency Fund and as government representative on the Assembly of the Croatian Energy Market Operator.