Dario Simic at a press conference of the Croatian football team in Austria, June 2008. Photo: EPA/ROLAND SCHLAGER.
Croatian former international footballer Dario Simic was arrested on Tuesday as part of a major anti-corruption operation conducted by the Office for the Suppression of Corruption and Organised Crime, USKOK, and the police, Croatian news agency HINA reported.
Neda Livljanic, a retired former head of the Sibenik-Knin County Tourism Department, was also arrested in the operation.
Investigators suspect that Simic, a former player for Dinamo Zagreb, Inter Milan, AC Milan and the Croatian national team, illegally obtained permits to run his campsite in the Tisno area, a tourist destination on Croatia’s central Adriatic coast, with Livljanic’s assistance.
Livljanic was first arrested three years ago for abuse of power or position. In July 2025, USKOK indicted her before the Split County Court for issuing illegal permits to operate a campsite.
