[1] He had previously served as Prefect of the Virovitica-Podravina County between 2008 and 2016 and 4th Minister of Regional Development and EU Funds during 2016.

After finishing elementary and high school in his hometown, he enrolled in Zagreb Faculty of Law from which he graduated in 2003.

In 2010, he enrolled in the postgraduate specialist study "Local Democracy and Development" at the Zagreb Faculty of Political Science.

The cause of the lawsuit was that Tolušić, using a nickname "Roks", wrote on Virovitica.net news portal a comment in which he called Milivojević "ordinary thief" who "allegedly takes the bribe", alluding that Milivojević intentionally wrongly assessed the value of three apartments owned by the Virovitica General Hospital used by physicians that were intended for sale and took a bribe for that.

He also called Milivojević "member of the red gang" alluding to his membership in the center-left Social Democratic Party of Croatia.