The State v. Pozar (1992) was the companion criminal proceeding to the Vijrje Restoration Scandal, in which former Vijrje Mayor Stevan Pozar pled guilty to fraud, embezzlement, and accessory to corruption after resigning office and turning state’s evidence against District V Senator Mlada Wrba.
Background
Pozar and Wrba diverted more than â‚15 million in heritage-restoration funds through the shell firm “V-Construction.” When the theft became public, Pozar resigned in late 1991, surrendered financial ledgers, and cooperated with federal prosecutors — a sharp contrast to Wrba, who clung to senatorial immunity until her 1992 electoral collapse.
Holding
Before the District V Court (Moskiprovac) in 1992, Pozar entered a guilty plea. He was sentenced to eight years and served six. The ledgers he produced became central evidence in the later prosecution of Wrba.
Legacy
The case is remembered as the cooperating half of the Vijrje purge: Pozar’s plea and early release versus Wrba’s unanimous conviction and twelve-year term in The State v. Wrba (1993). Together with The State v. Palic the same season, it marks the post-1992 reckoning that stripped Blue Dawn senators of immunity after electoral collapse — and the immediate spur for Sanjakorin’s 1994 Shell Reform Act. Catalogue: Landmark Cases.