The president of SDP Croatia, Peđa Grbin, on Tuesday held an extraordinary press conference in Parliament on the topic of the newly discovered HDZ affair 'Network' published in the new issue of the magazine Nacional." Today I planned to talk about alternative investment funds, i.e.

how the Government, through the introduction of mandatory allocation of 5% of pensions for alternative investment funds, threatens the pension of all Croatian citizens. How will this be another training ground from which money will be extracted for HDZ's eligible entrepreneurs, and at the same time we will all guarantee with tax revenues in the state budget that if someone plays with our money, that money will be refunded from the state budget. But alas, you open Nacional and you see that there is another terrible robbery going on in Croatia on the scale that can only be compared to the Fimi media affair. To be absolutely clear, from the transcripts published in Nacional, and I believe that I am not the only one waiting for noon when these tapes will be on their radio and publicly announced so that we can listen to them, it is evident that the HDZ machinery is through another in a series of minions, this time directly connected with the Minister of Economy Mr. Filipovic and the Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia, Mr. Plenković, She decided to dig into our pockets and steal the money of Croatian citizens. So, this network affair shows how HDZ state officials deal with our money, pay for advertising in certain media and then ask for a part of it to be returned to them. And here it is no longer either 5%, nor 10%, as we may have once been used to, here they are looking for half of what is paid to the advertising medium, they are asking for back. However, this ended up on the tape. I hope that Mr. Vlahović shared this recording, as he shared with Nacional, with the State Attorney's Office, either USKOK or the European Public Prosecutor. And if it is not, I call primarily on the European Public Prosecutor's Office, because here in the transcript directly mentions the Environmental Protection and Energy Efficiency Fund, they mention facades, and we know that it is financed from EU funds, to listen to these tapes, to exclude them and then to act in accordance with the law and regulations of the European Union. Because here at work, I will repeat it again, taking citizens' money, whether it is only Croatian or the entire European Union, is ultimately less important, except for the issue of jurisdiction." Grbin added that this is not about the sin of the individual, but about the sin of structures." This is about taking citizens' money in order to enrich the HDZ members once again. And now I read in the media that the HDZ members, specifically minister Bačić spoke about it, intend to throw Mr. Lovrinčević under the bus and show that this is a sin of an individual. But this is not about the sin of the individual. This is a sin of structures. Because, as he said, the unforgettable Ilija Čvorović: The switchboard can make mistakes once, but it can't a hundred times. And it cannot happen by chance that the sin of an individual is the Škugor affair in which Plenković's friend is involved. It cannot happen that the sin of an individual is the Sting affair in all its episodes, ending with the one of 24,000 kuna for a birthday party. It cannot happen that Plin za cent and Barbarić is the sin of only one individual. Simply, it cannot happen that there are so many cases that we have the sins of individuals quite by accident, directly related members of the HDZ, and that the top of that party has no idea about it. Because if they have no idea about it, then their ability, even intellectual, is more than questionable. Because, if you don't notice what's going on in your circle, how much is being stolen, then let me ask myself about the degree of your intelligence," Grbin said. And that is what HDZ is actually trying to do to all the citizens of this country – fools who will tolerate being stolen at this level, and they will pretend as if it is nothing. As if that's not a topic that needs to be answered at all. So, once again, I call on the competent state bodies and institutions to act promptly here, because, logic dictates, what a number of them did, HEP, the Ministry of European Funds, INA, now the Ministry of Economy, so surely others are happening. And that is why, if you do not want the money of Croatian citizens and EU citizens to continue to be stolen, then react immediately and send a clear message," he said. Regarding the law regulating the alternative investment fund, Grbin stated that this week SDP will invite all colleagues from the opposition to support their initiative to apply to the Constitutional Court for the evaluation of the law, with the motion to suspend the bill immediately." And if the Constitutional Court does not have the courage to do so, and does not have the courage to protect the future pensions of Croatian citizens, then this will be one of the first laws that SDP will after