The transcript in question referred to a 31 July 1995 meeting the then Croatian president, the late Franjo Tudjman, held with top military brass on Brijuni Isles on the eve of Operation Storm, which liberated parts of Croatian territory occupied by rebel Serbs.
Municipal prosecutor Vesna Abramovic said in a press release on Monday the results of an investigation and an audio recording indicated there was no grounds to suspect that the transcript of the meeting had been forged.
Abramovic said the charges brought by Gotovina's attorneys Marijan Pedisic and Ivo Farcic were dismissed on Friday.
Farcic told Hina today they would request another investigation and said that he had not been officially notified of the rejection.
The attorney said he was surprised that the prosecutor's office had obtained an audio recording of the Brijuni meeting because it had always been claimed that it did not exist.
Before rejecting the charges, the prosecutor's office interviewed eight witnesses -- former and incumbent President's Office employees in charge of taping and transcribing meetings and archiving transcripts.
Gotovina's attorneys brought the charges last October, after some media printed the so-called Brijuni transcript. The attorneys claimed the transcript had been forged by an unknown perpetrator, basing their evidence on suspicion as to the transcript's authenticity which some participants in the meeting voiced in the media.
The attorneys claim the Brijuni transcripts are the backbone of the Hague tribunal's indictment against Gotovina and of the tribunal prosecution's claim that there existed a criminal enterprise intended to expel Serbs from Croatia.
According to the media, the Hague tribunal's prosecution has been in possession of the Brijuni transcripts since 2000. In autumn 2002, they were entered as evidence in the trial against ex-Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.