![]() The story took a turn yesterday with a statement by KŽK that the company paid Podgoršek's hotel bill, a copy of the paid bill, dated 30 January, having been obtained by several media. Majcen claimed at the time she was fired because she refused to heed to Podgoršek's pressure to settle in favour of KŽK and another company with a similar dispute, KG Lendava. The fund refused to settle out of court and its director, Irena Majcen, was dismissed in November last year. ![]() KŽK has been in a dispute with the Farmland Fund for two years over land that it leases from the fund and wanted to sublet to farmers. ![]() The portal suggested the payment of the bill may have to do with KŽK, a company which owns vast tracts of farmland in Gorenjska and was until 2019 part-owned by the hotel owner Merlak, who has since severed all formal ties with it. It was the investigative portal Necenzurirano that reported last week that Podgoršek and his wife stayed at the hotel owned by crypto millionaire Damian Merlak but did not pay the EUR 800 bill, doing so only after being asked for comment this month.Īfter the report was published, Podgoršek said he had asked the hotel to mail the bill because he and his wife were in a hurry, but he said he did not receive the bill at that time and did not realise that until he was contacted by Necenzurirano. The anti-graft watchdog has already launched a preliminary inquiry into potential ethics breaches, while Podgoršek himself claims he was being blackmailed and has reported the matter to the criminal police. "This is a fact and I regret it," Podgoršek said in a press statement published on Facebook, which comes after a media report saying that he did not pay for the weekend stay at the hotel. He said he was "resigning exclusively due to the late payment of the bill", and was accepting responsibility for this. STA, 20 April 2022 - Agriculture Minister Jože Podgoršek resigned on Wednesday after he became the target of media scrutiny over lack of clarity regarding the payment of his weekend stay at an upscale hotel in Bohinj in January. ![]()
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