Dinko Cvitan
8th Attorney General
In office
24 April 2014  24 April 2018
Preceded byMladen Bajić
Succeeded byDražen Jelenić
Director of USKOK
In office
2005–2014
Succeeded byTamara Laptoš[1]
Personal details
Born1958
Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia
(now Croatia)
Alma materUniversity of Zagreb

Dinko Cvitan is a Croatian lawyer who served as an Attorney General of Croatia between 24 April 2014 and 20 April 2018, had previously served as director of the Croatian State Prosecutor's Office for the Suppression of Organized Crime and Corruption.

Early life and education

Dinko Cvitan was born in Zagreb in 1958 where he finished elementary and high school, after which he enrolled in Zagreb Faculty of Law from which he graduated in 1983.[2]

Career

After graduation, Cvitan started working as a trainee at the Zagreb Municipal Court. In 1985, he passed the bar exam, and after that started working at the Zagreb Municipal State Attorney's Office where he was appointed as Deputy Municipal State Attorney in 1986. Since 1991, he worked as a lawyer in a private practice, first in Daruvar and after the breakout of Croatian War of Independence, in Zagreb. In 1999, he started working as the director of legal affairs in insurance company Sunce osiguranje d.d. In 2003, Cvitan returned to the State's Attorney Office. In August 2003, he was promoted to a Deputy County Prosecutor, but immediately after that he was assigned the duties of Deputy Director of USKOK.[3] Since February 2004, he received a permanent appointment to the position of deputy director of USKOK. In October 2005, he was appointed Deputy Attorney General and on 2 November 2005 the acting director of USKOK, instead of Željko Žganjer who resigned in the circumstances of poor relations with the Attorney General Mladen Bajić.[4] In late February 2014, he was mentioned as a completely new prospective candidate for the position of the Attorney General.[5] He was appointed to that position on 7 March 2014 by the Croatian Parliament.[6]

References

  1. Slavica Lukić (28 February 2014). "JUTARNJI DOZNAJE Tamara Laptoš bit će prva žena na čelu USKOK-a". Jutarnji.hr. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  2. "Državno odvjetništvo Republike Hrvatske". Dorh.hr. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  3. "Dinko Cvitan novi stari ravnatelj USKOK-a - Internet Monitor". Monitor.hr. 20 April 2010. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  4. "Državno odvjetništvo Republike Hrvatske". Dorh.hr. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  5. "Cvitan radio kod glavnog svjedoka u aferi Granić - Večernji.hr". Vecernji.hr. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  6. "Državno odvjetništvo Republike Hrvatske". Dorh.hr. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
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