Word: kladusa
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Under the hard-driving Abdic, Agrokomerc grew from a tiny milk-processing plant to a conglomerate with 13,500 employees, 1985 sales of $183 million, and products ranging from chicken parts to frozen dough. The rapid expansion transformed the firm's hometown, Velika Kladusa, from an impoverished peasant village to a prosperous community of whitewashed brick homes. But it turned out that Abdic had financed much of the expansion through a type of fraud that has become common in Yugoslavia's byzantine financial system...