The media reports that a child from the Congo was recently brought to Croatia; what questions does that raise?
Despite the Zambia affair, according to 24sata, one child from DR Congo was adopted and brought to Croatia after the eight were arrested at the beginning of December last year in Zambia.
After eight Croatian citizens ended up in a Zambian prison on suspicion of child trafficking from DR Congo, a woman from central Croatia managed to adopt a child from that country, from the same orphanage, and bring him to Croatia, 24 Hour has learned .
"The woman adopted a child from the same orphanage as the arrested Croats, and the adoption process was identical. The girl she adopted received all Croatian documents," people familiar with the case told 24sata, Telegram reports .
They said that when she saw what happened to the Croats in Zambia, she decided to go directly to DR Congo to get the child. According to the interlocutors involved in the case, the woman gave an African woman a power of attorney to bring her a child from an orphanage. "She went to DR Congo alone to meet her and the child. The African woman in question, who has a company in Croatia, and who had a power of attorney, came to pick her up at the airport in DR Congo," they say.
Then the two of them brought the girl to Croatia. 24sata states that seven more children with Croatian documents are waiting to go to Croatia in the same orphanage.
New questions opened
This information raised several questions, some of which we have referred to the Ministry of the Interior, and we will publish the answers when we receive them.
Therefore, state officials previously mentioned that eight more children from the DR Congo with Croatian passports are waiting for their adoptive parents to come pick them up.
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This is obviously a case that belongs to that story, given that they mention 24 hours a day that seven more children are waiting to go to Croatia.
Given that there was a difference in the numbers of children who came to Croatia from the DR Congo, Žarko Kati?, the State Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs , said that in the last ten years, 94 minors born in the DR Congo received Croatian passports , and Marin Pileti? , Minister of Labour, Pension System, Family and Social Policy, spoke about 131 children adopted from DR Congo in the same period.
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We also asked for an answer to the question of why the two ministries use different figures and whether, in this context, the MUP checked why there is a significant difference in the figures.
We sent a similar inquiry to the Ministry of Labour, Pension System, Family and Social Policy .
We asked for an answer to the questions whether they have knowledge that another minor born in the DR Congo was adopted in Croatia in the last four months, whether the mentioned case is related to the earlier mention of the eight Croatian couples who have not yet gone to pick up their adopted children from the DR Congo, and whether established the origin of the difference in the number of adopted children in the last ten years in the context of different figures of the MUP and this ministry.
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