"I'm not interested in this specific case. I would like to see why that money was taken abroad, who used it and what happened to those transfers. I'm not interested in individuals here, but in the system of theft, because it was theft with the knowledge of the authorities," Mesic told reporters in Zagreb on Wednesday.
"Now we have to expose this entire network, which I think we can because Croatia today is a state based on law," he added.
Mesic said that Croatian authorities had discovered about a hundred secret bank accounts abroad into which funds had been paid for defence purposes.
"It's not clear to me why such accounts continued to be opened even after Croatia became independent and when it was quite clear that Yugoslavia didn't exist anymore, and why they were abroad. Those people were beating their chests about their patriotism while at the same time they were keeping their money abroad. That's interesting," the president said.