Spokeswoman for the Prosecutor's Office Marina Mihordin said the ICTY documents, which the DORH received last February, were still being examined, stressing she could not reveal details given that this was a pre-criminal procedure which requires that all information be treated as confidential.
"(The Prosecutor's Office) is working in cooperation with the Police Directorate and it is not correct that the case is sitting in the drawer, as some media are alleging," Mihordin told Hina.
She declined to speculate when the Prosecutor's Office could complete the analysis and decide about further measures.
According to recent media headlines, the ICTY Prosecutor's Office forwarded to the Croatian Chief State Prosecutor's Office evidence against the president of the Association of Croatian Homeland War Veterans, Tomislav Mercep, who was a secretary for national defence in Vukovar in 1991, after which he was appointed assistant interior minister in charge of an interior ministry reserve unit.
The evidence allegedly links Mercep with the killing of Serb civilians in Vukovar in 1991, crimes in Pakracka Poljana, and the detaining and torturing of civilians at Zagreb Fair premises.
At the end of December 2006, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) posted on its web site a report on the role of Tomislav Mercep in atrocities committed against ethnic Serbs in the early 1990s during the war in Croatia.
The 10-page report was compiled on October 19, 1995 by an inter-agency working group on the Balkans, including staff from the CIA, the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), and the National Security Agency (NSA). It was declassified on March 26, 2004.
The report was released as part of a regular periodical review that made publicly available thousands of documents that had earlier been classified as confidential, a CIA spokeswoman told Hina on Monday.