Doric told a news conference in the Croatian parliament that last year he had warned the international community that a great number of war criminals had been living in European countries, Canada and in the United States and that some of them had been granted citizenship of Council of Europe members without a prior examination whether they were suspected or convicted of war crimes in absentia.
After that, the PACE Committee on Legal Affairs appointed Doric as a rapporteur for the obligation of Council of Europe member states to co-operate in the prosecution of war crimes.
Doric said that he was now collecting data for his report, the compilation of which will take one year.
Speaking about embarrassing situations and problems he had faced in his work, Doric said that he had learnt about five to six cases when war criminals had been arrested in other countries on Croatian warrants but they were later released as the Croatian judiciary failed to produce documentation necessary for extradition.
"I have been outraged to hear that extradition requests (in those cases) have never been forwarded," said the HNS parliamentarian.
He said that European officials had hinted that Croatia should change its treatment of Interpol arrest warrants, given that, he said, some Croatian nationals who committed crimes in European states fled back to Croatia, and the Croatian police and judiciary did not do anything in such cases although they had received arrest warrants for such cases.
It remains to be seen whether inactivity could be ascribed to "corruption, political pressure, a lack of co-ordination between some ministries or to complete lack of competence", Doric said calling on justice Minister Ivan Simonovic to respond to this problem.