ZAGREB, May 8 (Hina) - The deputy head of the Office for the Suppression of Organised Crime and Corruption, Ksenija Pavic, requested in her closing argument on Friday that all eight defendants in the anti-graft case dubbed Big Maestro
be found guilty and appropriately punished, and that the property which she holds that the first defendant, Josip Matanovic, a former vice-president of the Croatian Privatisation Fund, has illegally acquired, should be confiscated.
ZAGREB, May 8 (Hina) - The deputy head of the Office for the
Suppression of Organised Crime and Corruption, Ksenija Pavic, requested in her
closing argument on Friday that all eight defendants in the anti-graft case
dubbed Big Maestro be found guilty and appropriately punished, and that the
property which she holds that the first defendant, Josip Matanovic, a former
vice-president of the Croatian Privatisation Fund, has illegally acquired,
should be confiscated. She told the Zagreb County Court that all the
evidence and statements of USKOK informers Josko Kuzmanic and Mikhail
Mosnogorski proved that the defendants asked for bribes for their services.
The eight are charged with bribery, unauthorised disclosure of
confidential business information, conspiracy to commit said crimes, and abuse
of office in the conversion of the Nin Brickworks premises, the sale of the
Facinka land plot in Porec, and the privatisation of the Osjecka Pivovara
brewery.
The defendants pleaded not guilty.