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03. 02. 10. - 10:00

US court fines Croat pensioner $5.72 million for stock fraud

Croatian Times

Federal Judge Kimba Wood has confirmed the New York Federal Court’s ruling that a retired seamstress in Croatia must pay a fine of 5.72 US million dollars for stock fraud.

Sonja Anticevic from the southern town of Omis was reportedly involved in the "Reebok" fraud in 2005. She is suspected of having earned more than one million Euros from shares in Reebok by using inside information she got from a relative in the USA.

The judge issued his ruling despite a letter in which her attorney Ante Madunic claimed she was innocent.

The daily Slobodna Dalmacija has reported Judge Wood claimed the letter had arrived too late, adding it was written in August but sent in December 2009 after the New York Federal Court had issued its ruling.

Anticevic refused to appear in court in the USA. She had earlier claimed she had no knowledge of share trading and that all her brokerage accounts had been opened by her relative David Pajcin.

"Rent-a Husband" man a hit in Zagreb
A man in Croatia who ran a "rent-a-husband" ad after being fired from his job as a carpenter has started a website to advertise his growing business.

Zagreb airport terminal building may cost €360 mn
Zagreb airport head Tonci Peovic said today (Fri) the price for construction of a new Zagreb airport passenger terminal could amount to as much as 360 million Euros.

Raiffeisen International's Croatian subsidiary gets 30 million loan
Raiffeisen International’s (RI) Croatian subsidiary Raiffeisenbank Austria d.d. received a 30-million-Euro credit by the German Investment and Development Society (DEG), it was announced.

Police press criminal charges against factory managers
Police have pressed criminal charges against Split’s Zeljezara ironworks factory’s Polish heads Ryszard Bernard Giemz and Michal Ireneusz Koncezak.

TV series about Josip Broz Tito airs tonight
A highly-anticipated TV series about former Yugoslav leader Josip Broz "Tito" beginning this evening (Fri) was almost canceled because of disagreements between Croatian national television (HTV) and series director Antun Vrdoljak.

Vlado Franjevic promotes multilingual poetry
Croatian artist and author Vlado Franjevic is participating in the exhibition "From Death to Life" organised by reformed churches in the Swiss Rhine Valley.

Red Bull wins semi-finals against the Zagreb Bears
The Zagreb Medvescak ice-hockey club was defeated by Red Bull Salzburg by a score of 3:2 (0:1, 0:1, 2:1) in the fifth and final match of the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga (EBEL) semi-finals at the ice arena in Salzburg.

Croatia and Bosnia to build a bridge across the Sava River
The Croatian and the Bosnia-Herzegovina governments should soon begin negotiations about construction of a bridge across the Sava River that forms the border between the two countries.

Student injures his friend with hot scissors
Police are investigating the case of a 14-year-old student who burned a friend with hot scissors yesterday (Thurs)

Man who slapped and kidnapped youths faces charges
Police have pressed criminal charges against a 25-year-old man for having slapped and kidnapped two youths in Benkovac near Zadar.