According to Feral, the passport was one of 3,000 gone missing from the general consulate in Mostar, Bosnia in 1999.
Citing Feral, Jutarnji says that a group of counterintelligence agents, working on the case of the fugitive general, succeeded in establishing how Gotovina was issued with the fake passport and who in the Zagreb Police Department did it.
These latest developments are expected to be shown to a European Union task force soon as proof of the seriousness of Croatian services' efforts to track down Gotovina.
Interior Ministry spokesman Zlatko Mehun told Jutarnji that "the Croatian police and the security services are doing a series of checks in connection with the alleged existence of a fake passport used by Ante Gotovina". "We cannot divulge any details in the interest of the investigation, but the results of the checks will be sent to the State Prosecutor's Office," Jutarnji quoted him as saying.
The article wonders if the alleged fake passport was one of those gone missing from the consulate in Mostar given that passport patterns were changed in 2000.