Stevan Pozar (born 1942) is a Kresimirian corporate consultant, public speaker, and disgraced former politician who served as the Mayor of Vijrje (Moskiprovac) from 1980 until his spectacular resignation in 1991. A former loyalist of the Blue Dawn establishment, Pozar’s mayoral tenure ended in one of the most infamous corruption scandals in the modern history of the Divine Republic of Kresimiria.
Alongside District V Senator Mlada Wrba, Pozar was the co-architect of the Vijrje Restoration Scandal. The two politicians systematically embezzled millions of Krejts intended to rebuild the city’s historic center and the 1931 Memorial Square, diverting the state funds into a shell corporation to construct private luxury villas. When investigative journalists exposed the theft, Pozar immediately resigned and pled guilty, serving six years in federal prison. Today, having rebranded himself as an expert in “corporate compliance,” he runs a lucrative public speaking firm in the very city he defrauded.
Rise to the Mayoralty (1980)
Born into a family of mid-level civil servants in the bureaucratic hub of Vijrje, Pozar was a product of the formidable political machine built by long-serving Blue Dawn Senator Nika Radman.
By the late 1970s, as the Radman era entered its twilight, the mid-century concrete tenements of Vijrje had aged terribly, earning the city a grim, utilitarian reputation. Seeking to refresh the party’s image ahead of the 1980 municipal elections, Blue Dawn tapped Pozar, a charismatic urban planner, to run for Mayor.
Pozar campaigned on an ambitious, highly publicized “Heritage Restoration Project.” He promised to soften the city’s brutalist skyline with green parks, pedestrian walkways, and public art, specifically focusing on rebuilding the central square destroyed during the 1931 BRC-21 terror attack. Riding the lingering goodwill of the Radman machine, Pozar coasted to an easy, solid victory.
The Vijrje Restoration Scandal (1990–1991)
For nearly a decade, the residents of Vijrje watched as their central square was demolished, fenced off, and left as a massive, muddy gravel pit. Pozar and his ally, Senator Mlada Wrba, continually cited “supply chain delays” and requested additional federal funding from the Council for Development in Sinj.
In late 1990, investigative journalists from the Kresimirian Herald broke the story. They revealed that the municipal contracts for the restoration work had been exclusively awarded to a shell company named “V-Construction.”
In 1991, the Council for Internal Affairs (CIA) launched a formal fraud probe. The investigation uncovered that “V-Construction” possessed no employees or equipment and was registered to Senator Wrba’s brother-in-law. Mayor Pozar had personally signed off on the transfer of over â‚15 million from the city budget to the shell company. These funds were subsequently diverted to construct a lavish private villa for Wrba on the outskirts of the city, while Pozar received millions in kickbacks used to purchase foreign luxury vehicles and Kruhlstutt jewelry.
Resignation and the 1992 Election Collapse
The public outrage in Moskiprovac was absolute. The theft of funds meant to honor the victims of the 1931 terrorist attack was viewed as a grave insult to the district’s history. Protesters surrounded City Hall, hanging effigies of Pozar and Wrba.
Unlike Senator Wrba, who arrogantly refused to resign in a desperate bid to maintain her parliamentary immunity, Pozar panicked. In late 1991, he formally resigned as Mayor of Vijrje in utter disgrace.
His actions triggered an absolute electoral earthquake for Blue Dawn. In the 1992 mayoral election, the local party machine frantically ran an uncharismatic bureaucrat, Tarik Maric, as a sacrificial lamb. Harnessing the immense working-class anger generated by Pozar’s corruption, Vjetrusa candidate Dominik Cilic managed to break the 60-year Blue Dawn municipal monopoly in a tense, extremely narrow race.
Imprisonment and Later Life
Stripped of his office, Pozar faced immediate criminal charges. Seeking leniency, he cooperated fully with federal prosecutors and pled guilty to multiple counts of fraud, embezzlement, and acting as an accessory to Senator Wrba’s crimes. In 1992, the Superior Tribunal sentenced him to 8 years in the Moskiprovac Federal Penitentiary.
He served six years of his sentence and was released on good behavior in 1998. Unlike Wrba, who died in poverty and obscurity after being charged in 1992, Pozar managed a cynical but highly successful second act.
Leveraging his intimate, firsthand knowledge of how state funds are illegally diverted and laundered through municipal bureaucracy, Pozar rebranded himself as a private consultant. He founded a boutique public speaking and “corporate compliance” firm in Vijrje. Today, at 83 years old, he frequently charges exorbitant fees to advise logistics companies and private contractors on how to successfully navigate federal audits and legally secure state infrastructure grants, remaining a highly controversial, wealthy figure in the city he once robbed.