Now that the Croatian government seems to be on the verge of collapse, I am writing to you in the hope that you can do something about an alleged case of organized crime of staggering proportions, of which I have become aware only recently. Of course, you and your office will need substantial help from law enforcement services, but you seem to me to be the only one in this country to whom I can write at this moment about this important matter.

From sources close to the highest officials of the Croatian government I have learned that a British investor in tourist development in Istria and Dalmatia is only a front for money laundering by highest government officials in this country. I have become aware of the alleged connections through my involvement in environmental protection of Motovun and its surroundings, where this particular British investor is engaged in golf development. When I recently learned about the alleged money-laundering scheme, everything became clear to me. The scheme brings together all pieces of the jigsaw puzzle.

The investor in question goes under the name of Jupiter Adria, which is allegedly part of Jupiter Group, a fund management company in London. However, from sources close to the City in London I have learned that Jupiter Group does not recognize Jupiter Adria as part of its organization. Jupiter Adria has a seat both in Luzern, Switzerland, and in Zagreb. One person connecting London, Luzern and Zagreb is William Crewdson, who serves as a company director both in Luzern and Zagreb. The leading Croatian person in Jupiter Adria in Zagreb is Zdenko Leko. I have recently tried to get in touch with both of these gentlemen, but without any success.

Now, Jupiter Adria has reported intentions to invest some six-hundred-million euros in tourist development in Croatia, of which about seventy million are intended for golf development in Motovun. If my sources close to the highest government officials in Zagreb are correct, a large portion of this money would actually come from Croatia itself via banks abroad that have their branches in the country. That is, the very same government officials would be preparing the ground for foreign investment in Istria and Dalmatia, and acting as foreign investors in their own country.

You are surely aware of the many curious things that have been happening in this country in connection with golf development. Last year the parliament even passed a bill about golf courses, which gives investors draconian expropriation powers that have no parallel anywhere in the world. The bill is now in the Constitutional Court. Also, more than sixty golf courses have appeared in spatial or physical plans across the land, of which nearly a half are in Istria alone. There is an outcry against most of these developments throughout Croatia. Moreover, the environmental impact study of golf development in Motovun is now in the Administrative Court for many irregularities during its vetting process overseen by the Ministry of the Environment. All this indicates that highest government officials have been involved from the beginning of the golf development craze that started about a decade ago with the sale of government land. Once more, the alleged money-laundering scheme would explain their behavior perfectly well.

These are serious allegations, and they require a systematic investigation by Croatian law enforcement services. Again, you strike me as the only one in this country who can set in motion such an inquiry. As for me, I am only dutifully reporting what I have learned from well-informed sources in Zagreb and London. I am not in position to investigate the alleged criminal activity all by myself. I trust that you will take this task upon yourself.

Addendum (September 30, 2009)

By way of a reminder, today I forwarded this letter to the Croatian president. I also sent him the following letter, in which I repeated my pleas for attention and action:

An entire month has passed since I sent you the attached letter, but neither you nor anyone from your office has yet found the time to respond to it. I cannot but assume that the letter has not been passed onto the relevant law enforcement services, either. I am risking much, and possibly even my life, for my allegations are pretty serious, but you remain surprisingly silent, as though golf development in Motovun and elsewhere in Croatia is a perfectly legitimate business conducted in complete accordance with the laws of the land. I hearby plead one more time for your attention and your action.

What are the chances that I will get a response from either him or someone from his office? Zero, I would say. After six years in Croatia, I know its government inside out.