STA, 7 January 2020 - Following some three months of police search, runaway tax debtor Zlatan Kudić was apprehended on New Year's Eve, reportedly in central Ljubljana. One of the biggest tax debtors in the country, Kudić will await the end of his tax fraud trial in detention.
National broadcaster TV Slovenija reported on Tuesday that the Ljubljana District Court, where the trial began in 2013, did not want to reveal when the proceedings will resume since the defence had requested the panel of judges to be excluded, with the court president still deliberating on the issue.
Kudić vanished when the trial was drawing to an end. The former director of the Ljubljana company Maxicon, which went bust in 2012, is standing trial for tax evasion, money laundering and destruction of evidence.
The Financial Administration (FURS) should not hold out much hope of recovering EUR 25 million worth of debt owed by Kudić, said TV Slovenija, since Maxicon was erased from the list of tax debtors upon going into receivership.
FURS could claim the debt via a pecuniary claim in a criminal procedure, but it is questionable whether Kudić formally has any assets left at all.
It is not yet clear where the defendant was hiding from the arrest warrant. His attorney told the public broadcaster that Kudić did spend some time in Slovenia, at least in December.
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