The vice president of parliament and president of the Croatian Social Liberal Party, Adlesic, requested chief state prosecutor Bajic earlier this month to inform her if there were grounds to extend the investigation of independent member of parliament Branimir Glavas to Parliament Speaker Vladimir Seks.
Adlesic told the press in parliament she sent a letter to Bajic to put an end to public speculation on whether Seks, whom Glavas described as his wartime commander, should step down.
"Such speculation have come from the leaders of three parties and they are not harmless because they refer to the parliament speaker."
Responding to a question from the press, Adlesic said her request was not intended to either attack or defend Seks and that she had not spoken with him before writing to Bajic.
Seks received requests to step down and to ask to be stripped of immunity for the duration of an investigation into war crimes allegedly committed in Osijek in 1991 by the presidents of the Social Democratic Party and the Croatian Peasant Party, Ivica Racan and Josip Friscic. They were joined by Democratic Centre leader Vesna Skare-Ozbolt.
Seks also said that Bajic today was informed of another matter which Seks described as a "famous construction" presented by former Justice Minister Vesna Skare Ozbolt in a Sunday political talk show on Croatian Television. Skare Ozbolt said she had received documents from Serbian minister for human rights and national minorities Rasim Ljajic which connect Seks with war crimes in Osijek in 1991.
"The documents that the Croatian Chief State Prosecutor's Office had received from the War Crimes Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade and the Serbian Justice Ministry do not contain the name of Vladimir Seks, nor is this name connected with any war crimes, crimes against humanity or the international law. It is mentioned only in one context, namely in a statement about a video recording of my speech at the Croatian Democratic Union founding assembly in Vukovar in 1990," Seks said, adding that the former minister Skare Ozbolt, who had been relieved of her duty, was maliciously manipulating the statement of the Serbian minister to cause damage to the reputation of the Croatian parliament speaker.