UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND ILLEGAL PRIVATIZATION OF SOCIAL OWNERSHIP (HT SHARE) AS A CONSEQUENCE OF ILLEGALLY CONVERSION AND PRIVATIZATION

In the paper, the authors point out the illegally carried out transformation, privatization, and confiscation of contractual private ownership over “Hrvatski Telekom” (HT). Namely, until the 1990s, citizens financed the construction, through the PTT, TT network, node, local, long-distance, and main telephone exchanges. Proof of this are the Agreements on pooling funds for the construction, expansion, or reconstruction of telecommunications facilities with the company PTT (Post-Telegraph-Telephone), then HPT (Croatian Post and Telecommunications), and today HT (Hrvatski Telekom). Based on the contractual purchase and sale relationship, the citizens became the owners of ideal shares in the ownership of HT. The enactment of the Act on the Separation of Croatian Post and Telecommunications into Croatian Post and Croatian Telecommunications stipulates that the privatization of these companies will be carried out according to a special law. However, in the privatization process, citizens were deprived of their property, contrary to the Constitution and international documents.