Motovun is abuzz about a scandal involving the former mayor of Motovun and his closest associates from the municipal administration. It is about polo development. The scandal goes all the way to the former governor of Istria and his closest associates from the regional administration. It entails untold machinations with land ownership and outright bribery. The German investor in polo, whose many attempts have been frustrated by corruption and organized crime, has come out into the open after many years of trying in vain. The scandal makes me laugh, though. Polo is next to nothing by comparison with golf development, which preceded it by several years. That is where corruption and organized crime go from one of the former prime ministers of Croatia to the former mayor of Motovun via the former governor of Istria. I cannot wait for that scandal to come out in the open. By comparison with polo development, which entailed some seventy-million euros all told, golf development entailed more than four-billion euros across Croatia, where more than sixty golf courses were to be built during the real estate boom. Golf and polo courses would cost about the same amount of money. But about a third of golf development involved Istria. The only reason why the golf scandal is still out of sight is that it involves at least sixty times as many people as the polo scandal. And at all levels of the Croatian government.