MP Jurjevic repeated his question about the Split shipyard, claiming that Interpol, the FBI and the Austrian police were investigating the case and that the Croatian Ministry of the Interior had informed the Austrian police of its suspicions about money laundering, with money following the route Split-Cyprus-Graz-Zagreb.
He said that the PM had misinformed the public at the previous parliamentary sitting by stating that there was no suspicion regarding the contract.
PM Sanader said that the police were investigating all transactions regarding the contract, but that according to the government's information, the contract was not harmful.
An anonymous person reported members of the management and supervisory boards of the Brodosplit shipyard claiming that by signing harmful contracts they had caused at least USD16 million of damage to the company. The Split County police department on June 3 reported that an investigation had been carried out and that it did not establish any elements of criminal activity.
PM Sanader dismissed as insinuation claims by Antun Vujic of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) that purges were being carried out in the Vjesnik daily and that its reporters were being intimidated and suspended, as well as that the paper was turning into a bulletin for the ruling Croatian Democratic Union.
Sanader also dismissed claims by another SDP deputy, Nenad Stazic, who said that in the 916 days of Sanader's government 1,212 people had been employed as advisors in different ministries.
Commenting on the recent publishing of the White Paper by Slovenia, Sanader said that he hoped that Croatia's neighbour would eventually agree to Croatia's proposal to have disputed border issues settled before an international judicial body.
He repeated that the government was preparing a Blue Paper as a response and confirmed that detailed maps with border areas along the Mura River would be published to remove any doubts regarding the border.
The PM dismissed claims by Antun Kapraljevic of the People's Party (HNS) that the government was politically and financially isolating local self-government units where the HDZ was not in power, urging him to report such cases to the government so that it could set the situation right.
Deputy PM Jadranka Kosor said that domestic violence had to be condemned without compromise and fought on a daily basis, as well as that domestic violators had to be publicly labelled as such. Kosor was responding to Irena Ahel of the HDZ who sought her comment on a recent murder of a woman by her husband in Zagreb.
Sea Minister Bozidar Kalmeta announced entry into force of regulations putting an end to the unloading of ballast waters in Croatia's inland waterways and the pollution of the Adriatic Sea.