The police started a search searching the flat of Construction Minister Darko Horvat on Saturday morning, media outlets have reported.

Neither the law enforcement authorities nor the Office of State Attorney-General have made any official statement on the matter so far.

The Telegram news website has reported that the minister is implicated in the abuse of office.

According to that media outlet, the search is in connections with the allegations that Horvat’s former aide, Ana Mandac, is suspected of wrongdoings in awarding grants to businesses under an aid scheme of the economy ministry while Horvat used to be at the helm of that ministry.

Mandac is suspected by the Office for the Suppression of Corruption and Organised Crime (USKOK) of misappropriations of the grants in the case implicating former official Josipa Rimac.