After the three-hour interview, Turek told reporters that he and POA had done everything in line with law, following approvals given by the Supreme Court.
Asked whether he believed that all what he had worked had been justified, including the tapping of phones of the reporters and the Hague-based UN tribunal's investigators, Turek answered in the affirmative, explaining that in any other case competent bodies would not have given the greenlight to his and POA operations.
Asked why he had tapped phones of the tribunal's investigators who stayed in Croatia legally, Turek replied that "everybody can produce their identity documents for whatever they want to be" but that they were for him "foreign agents".
According to some reports, the parliamentary committee and the Council will interview Gordan Malic, a reporter who wrote an article in the Globus weekly on the alleged tapping of him and the other four reporters.
In the coming days, a former police chief, Ranko Ostojic, another former POA chief, Josko Podbevsek, and the four monitored reporters are expected to be interviewed about this scandal.
According to unofficial reports, a five-member parliamentary team, that has so far paid two visits the POA headquarters to investigate the case, has not found any trace which might indicate that, except Malic, the other four reporters had been 'processed' by POA, either even as "collateral victims".
Earlier this month, after the national weekly Globus reported on Turek's presentation about documents with regard to information on "acts of intelligence-media manipulation with the aim of discrediting Croatia", the parliamentary committee received letters sent by the five reporters.
According to Globus, Turek's presentation branded the five journalists' articles on what Turek said were false reports on the whereabouts of the fugitive general Ante Gotovina, as being harmful for the interests of Croatia, and that's why they were monitored.
The reporters in question have asked the committee to investigate whether there were any unlawful procedure in that case.