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Croatian authorities step up probe into secret defence accounts

ZAGREB, Nov 29 (Hina) - Chief State Prosecutor Mladen Bajic has declined to comment on an investigation into money deposited in secret bank accounts abroad for Croatia's defence in the 1990s, saying only that the probe has been intensified with the establishment of co-ordination between of all parties engaged in the enquiry: the police, the finance ministry, the tax administration and state inspectors together with prosecutors who are collecting information so as to reconstruct the flow of the money taken from these accounts.
ZAGREB, Nov 29 (Hina) - Chief State Prosecutor Mladen Bajic has declined to comment on an investigation into money deposited in secret bank accounts abroad for Croatia's defence in the 1990s, saying only that the probe has been intensified with the establishment of co-ordination between of all parties engaged in the enquiry: the police, the finance ministry, the tax administration and state inspectors together with prosecutors who are collecting information so as to reconstruct the flow of the money taken from these accounts.

As soon as relevant facts are established, we shall notify the public, Bajic told the press in Zagreb on Wednesday after he and the Croatian police chief Marijan Benko signed an agreement on cooperation between the Office of the Chief State Prosecutor and the Police Directorate.

Asked whether there was still some money in those accounts, Bajic answered that he could not say anything more about that.

Asked whether his office was selecting cases that it would deal with in the context of media reports that some former HDZ members claim that Ivo Sanader took the helm of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) thanks to electoral fraud at the party's election conventions and that the prosecution has not yet reacted, Bajic answered that there was no selective approach and that his office acts whenever charges are pressed and whenever there is enough evidence for the Office to initiate proceedings.

In response to reporters' questions about the Zadar police operation when two men were arrested on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack, police chief Marijan Benko said that they had contacted the Serbian police and colleagues in other countries so as to establish how the two suspects - Nikola Vein and Tibor Fur - had crossed the border and entered Croatia.

Vein was nabbed in the centre of the coastal city of Zadar on Sunday evening when he was preparing to plant an explosive device under a car. His accomplice Tibor Fur was arrested half an hour later during the police blockade of the nearby town of Obrovac. On Tuesday, an investigating judge ordered their one-month detention in custody.

Judge Vladimir Mikolcevic said on Wednesday that the investigation was under way.

Both men have criminal records and are linked in the media with the Serbian underworld.

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