According to reports from Croatian media citing U.S. judicial authorities, Supina-Saltus is suspected of having used her authority and access to bank accounts to make unlawful payments to her own accounts at a bank in the United States from July 2017 to November 2023, thereby acquiring approximately $750,000.
Supina-Saltus had access to these accounts because she was employed in the financial-administrative department of Croatia’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations.
She is suspected of having, in some cases, made duplicate payments for the same invoices. Specifically, one amount would be paid to the actual supplier, while another would be redirected to her account. In other instances, she allegedly created false invoices, including those from fictitious suppliers, and directed the funds to accounts under her control.
Supina-Saltus was arrested yesterday and brought before a court in Connecticut. U.S. authorities have charged her with one count of wire fraud and two counts of money laundering.
The proceedings were initiated in cooperation with Croatia’s USKOK, which had previously conducted investigations based on information from the Croatian Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs and forwarded the collected data to U.S. authorities.