Stjepan Đureković

Stjepan Đureković
Stjepan Đureković
Born	c. 1926 Bukovac, Syrmia Oblast, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Died	28 July 1983 Wolfratshausen, Bavaria
Occupation	Businessman

Stjepan Đureković (c. 1926 – 28 July 1983) was a Croatian political dissident and businessman, best known as the politically-appointed CEO of the state-owned INA petrol company.

In 1982 he defected to West Germany and became active in Croatian nationalist émigré circles opposed to Yugoslavia.

Đureković was born in Bukovac near Petrovaradin. During World War II he avoided service in the Independent State of Croatia's armed forces to join the Partisans.

After the war he rose to a position within INA.

After falling out with the government he defected to West Germany in 1982 where he became involved with the Croatian National Committee, a Croat nationalist organization. Together with Ivan Botić he published Yugoslavia in crisis, in which the two argued that Yugoslavia's large inflation rate and unemployment was resulting in the exploitation of Croatian resources.

Đureković was assassinated in Wolfratshausen, West Germany by UDBA agents in 1983 in "Operation Dunav". Đureković's remains were reburied at Zagreb's Mirogoj cemetery in 1999.

In 2005, Germany issued an arrest warrant on Josip Perković for his involvement in the assassination. Krunoslav Prates was also put on trial on charges relating to the crime. Some sources have linked the assassination to Željko "Arkan" Ražnatović, a career criminal known to be contracted by Yugoslavia's State Security Administration (SDB) in various operations during the 1970s and 1980s.

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