"The three tenors will soon get an orchestra," he said while visiting the Montessori elementary school in reference to three HFP presidents arrested last weekend.
Asked if the investigation would cover other areas and institutions apart from the HFP, Mesic said the National Security Council concluded yesterday that Maestro was just one course of action.
There will be far many more courses as corruption, unfortunately, is omnipresent in society and dealing only with the HFP is not enough, he said.
"The HFP is the centre of corruption, but corruption still branches out from this centre and this octopus must be stopped in its entirety," the president underlined.
He said Croatia had a system that would succeed in that as all relevant institutions, such as the State Prosecutor's Office and the police, functioned without influence from politics or the executive authority.
Therefore we can certainly expect the fight against corruption to yield even bigger results, Mesic said.
Speaking about the same subject at a news conference in the Sabor, independent member of parliament Slaven Letica advocated forming an ad hoc parliamentary-civilian commission to supervise police work in the HFP, saying he feared the police might destroy valuable documents in an attempt to amnesty people on HFP supervisory bodies from responsibility for the corruption scandal.
He said the three arrested vice presidents could not be scapegoats for corruption in Croatia and that one should also consider the policy of organised bankruptcies in the 2000-03 period, when he claimed corruption went from the government to the HFP to commercial courts.