A former inspector of the Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices (JAZMP) who had been accused of setting up offshore firms in the aftermath of the massive leak of documents from a Panamanian law firm, has now been cleared by a new leak from Mossack Fonseca. The newly revealed records corroborate his claims of identity theft.

Coatings group Helios said it generated EUR 390m in sales revenue in 2017, a 6% increase on the year before. The profit figures were not disclosed by the company, which had a net profit of EUR 58m in 2016.

Sava shareholders have opted for selling the holding's 37.6% stake in the bank Gorenjska Banka to Serbian counterpart AIK Banka, which already holds 33%. The EUR 43m for the bank has already been deposited in a fiduciary account. The shareholders also okayed a capital injection for Sava.

The Ministry of Finance welcomed on Friday the eurozone decision to allow Greece to exit the bailout programme in August, labelling it "good news for the eurozone as a whole".

The SBI TOP on the Ljubljana Stock Exchange closed 0.65% lower at 886.75 points on Friday. Overall trading volumes amounted to EUR 1.21m, over half a million of which was in chemical company Cinkarna Celje, which added 0.4% to EUR 248.

The Celje District Court sentenced to prison on Friday two former business executives charged with abuse of office. The Velenje-based businessman Tomaž Ročnik got a year and nine months and the former CEO of bakery Klasje, Dragica Veršič, a year and two months. The ruling is not final yet and both sides announced an appeal.

Business sentiment rose by 1.2 percentage points to 13.3 points in June compared to May. It was up by 14.6 points compared to the long-term average, the Statistics Office said on Friday.