The working group today heard former Croatian police chief Ranko Ostojic, who was also monitored by the POA according to media reports.
After the two-hour interview, Ostojic told reporters the Interior Minister (Marijan Mlinaric) exempted him from keeping official secrets and during today's interview he had presented information which should absolve him from what he called monstrous accusations made by a former POA head, Franjo Turek.
"Before this, I could not openly speak (about the matter), and now when I am exempted from the obligation of keeping secrets, I am finally able to deny allegations from Turek's famous presentation," Ostojic said.
He also refuted media speculation that he would become an advisor to Prime Minister Ivo Sanader.
Asked whether he would lodge a defamation suit against POA, Ostojic said that his goal was not to sue but to discontinue such a practice in the work of POA, explaining that it was not difficult to imagine what secret services could do to ordinary citizens after what they did to him,
Two interviewed reporters Zeljko Peratovic and Mario Kavain, announced their suits against POA.
Another reporter Ivica Djikic said he would be satisfied with an apology from that intelligence agency.
Those three reporters described today's talks with the parliamentary working group as fair, adding that they believed that the Committee could shed the light on the entire scandal.
The fourth reporter, Ivanka Toma, who was also today questioned, enclosed her own written explanation in which she stressed she did not want the entire case to be used in political purposes.
"According to statements given by working group members so far, it seems that our requests are going to be used for their political goals. I am not interested in their relations with the Hague-based UN tribunal or with former government. I am only interested in seeing whether POA was dealing with reporters, for which it had no grounds or rights," she said.