Soon afterwards, three former managers of "Hrvatske autoceste", Jurica Prskalo, Mario Lovrinčević and Goran Legac, were arrested for embezzling over 21 million kuna on a public tender, together with a chief engineer Željko Kandžija and owner of a private construction company Slaven Žužul. Kalmeta has consistently stated he never knew about those affairs and has refused to take any kind of responsibility. President Stjepan Mesić was one of many who suggested Kalmeta needed to resign. After another railway accident on November 21 near Rijeka, the railway workers union sent an open letter of complaint to the minister. On December 11, 2009, Kalmeta underwent an interpellation and survived a vote of no confidence. In December 2010, Kalmeta dismissed the last remaining member of the Board of Directors of Hrvatske autoceste, Josip Sapunar, after he was indicted for participating in a large-scale embezzlement scheme. The latter subsequently testified in USKOK and accused the minister of complicity. In June 2015 Kalmeta and 12 others were indicted by USKOK for corruption. Kalmeta is married with three children. He speaks English and Italian and his hobbies include spearfishing, jogging and reading.