Petar Čobanković (29 January 1957) is a former

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n politician who served as Minister of Regional Development, Forestry and Water Management. Čobanković finished elementary and high school in

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, after that he attended Faculty of Agriculture at

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where he obtained his B.Sc. in agriculture. From 2000 until 2001 he was Prefect of

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. Between 2003 and 2008 he was the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management in the

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. On January 12, 2008 he was named Minister of Regional Development, Forestry and Water Management in the

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. In 2010 he became deputy-prime minister of Government of Croatia in the

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. Čobanković pleaded guilty and he was sentenced in March 2013 to one year in jail for corruption. The sentence was consequently reduced to a community sentence in an exchange for full cooperation with the prosecutor in the corruption case against the former Croatian premier

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cobankovic, Petar 1957 births Living people People from Ilok Croatian Democratic Union politicians Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb alumni Croatian politicians convicted of corruption