{"id":35355,"date":"2021-10-14T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ostro.si\/?p=35355"},"modified":"2026-06-09T09:21:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T07:21:23","slug":"the-fugitive-and-his-two-medusas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ostro.si\/en\/stories\/pandora-papers\/the-fugitive-and-his-two-medusas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fugitive and His Two Medusas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u00bbHe was addicted to drugs and alcohol at the time, which is why he needed money, and he couldn\u2019t get a job because of his illness. He met \u0110uri\u0107 at the train station in Ljubljana and \u0110uri\u0107 promised him 50 euros for every car he sold, assuring him it was a legal business.\u00ab <\/p>\n

This is how, in 2014, the court in Kr\u0161ko described the beginning of cooperation between Dragan \u0110uri\u0107, a car salesman, and Ale\u0161, an addict from Bre\u017eice at the time. They were both convicted of tax evasion, and \u0110uri\u0107 was later also convicted of corporate fraud by a court in Ljubljana. <\/p>\n

\u0110uri\u0107 bought used cars in Germany and imported them to Slovenia. The cars were paid for by Ale\u0161\u2019s shell company in cash that was handed to him by \u0110uri\u0107. After buyers purchased the cars, Ale\u0161 withdrew their payments from the company\u2019s account and gave the money to \u0110uri\u0107. <\/p>\n

In less than two months, they imported 31 used passenger cars and evaded value-added tax (VAT), which was stated fraudulently on the invoices. The Slovenian Financial Administration detected 58,000 euro of unpaid VAT during this period alone. <\/p>\n

This, it seems, was not the only problem \u0110uri\u0107 had with the Financial Administration. As late as June this year he appeared on the list of tax defaulters with debts between half a million and a million euros. At the end of August he was no longer on the list, although, as confirmed to O\u0161tro by the police, he remains a fugitive. <\/p>\n

His actual tax debt might be even considerably higher, the Pandora Papers<\/a> show. As early as in 2010, \u0110uri\u0107 secretly founded a company called Medusadoo LTD in the Seychelles. Initially he had considered another name, Lobi LTD. <\/p>\n

Just like the two people at the centre of O\u0161tro\u2019s first two stories based on the Pandora Papers \u2013 Marko Glin\u0161ek<\/a> and Roman Stropnik \u2013 \u0110uri\u0107 also decided to open a bank account on the Caribbean island country of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.<\/p>\n

At the time, he was also the owner of the Slovenian company Medusa, d. o. o., which had 14 million euros total revenue in the last financial year for which reports are available.<\/p>\n

Business operations of the Slovenian Medusa may have in fact involved Medusadoo from the Seychelles that \u0110uri\u0107 set up through the local office of All About Offshore (AABOL), a corporate agent whose documents were leaked to more than 600 reporters of the Pandora Papers investigation.<\/p>\n

According to \u0110uri\u0107, Medusadoo with a share capital of 100,000 dollars would deal with \u00bbthe sale of copper (metals), scrap copper, crude oil and diesel, and other services\u00ab.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n