The leading Croatian newspapers are reporting today that Stipe Mesić, the former president of the country, is under investigation for alleged real estate manipulations during his mandate. Good news, no doubt. Ivo Sanader, the prime minister in the same period, is also investigated for crimes of this ilk. But there are few people in the government during the real estate boom who are innocent when it comes to crimes of this kind. This is where more than sixty golf courses planned at that time come into the picture, as well. And government officials at all levels were deeply involved in all sorts of shenanigans involving golf development. Most of them will never be investigated simply because there are too many of them to be brought to justice. The police, the courts, and the jails cannot possibly cope with so many people. Saved by numbers, as well as the lumbering recession, they are lying low right now. But it is good to remember that the entire Croatian government from top to bottom of the hierarchy was doing its best to turn the global real estate boom into personal gain for its craftiest members. The president and the prime minister of the time are but the tip of the proverbial iceberg.