Nadan Vidošević (born 30 January 1960) is a Croatian politician, businessman and entrepreneur arrested on 12 November 2013, on the charge of misappropriating 32.9 million kunas (US$5,784.363) from Croatian Chamber of Commerce. He was a long-time member of the

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, before launching an independent and ultimately unsuccessful candidacy in the

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Overview

Vidošević graduated from the Split Faculty of Economy in 1984. He started his career at Dalmacijacement, a company producing construction materials, becoming the company's

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in 1990. In 1992, he became president of the Croatian football club

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, a position he held for nearly 4 years. During that time, Hajduk managed to win 2 league titles, 1 cup and reach the

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quarter-finals in 1995 which was Hajduk's greatest achievement in modern-day Croatia. On the negative aspect, Ivan Buljan,

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and he were charged with tax evasion during their work in Hajduk for supposedly damaging it for 55 million kunas (7.3 million euros). Following the 1993 Chamber of Counties election, he was elected to the now defunct Chamber of Counties of the

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on the

ticket as a representative from

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. In October the same year, he was appointed

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under

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, a position he held until 1995. In 1995, he was elected chairman of the Croatian Chamber of Commerce, a position he held until 2013, after being re-elected four times: in 1999, 2003, 2007, and 2011. Vidošević won 11.33 percent of the vote in the first round of the 2009 presidential election and was eliminated. Vidošević was arrested on 12 November 2013, on the charge of misappropriating 32.9 million kunas (US$5,784.363) from Croatian Chamber of Commerce.

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