According to sources close to the investigation into the fake Gotovina passport, Loncaric said that in spring 2004 he notified the offices of the prime minister and the president of the republic, the State Prosecutor's Office and the Interior Ministry about what he had learned about the fake passport in the name of Kristijan Horvat.
Loncaric confirmed that he took retired police officer Salih Fazlic, suspected of having instigated Franjo Katavic to make the fake passport, to chief state prosecutor Mladen Bajic.
Another testimony was heard today, that of Mladen Caganic, currently in jail for robbery.
According to the unnamed source close to the investigation, Caganic claimed that he obtained the fake passport in the name of Kristijan Horvat via Fazlic for DEM2,500. That passport was allegedly one of many gone missing from the Croatian Consulate in Mostar, Bosnia. Caganic was imprisoned because of the passport in 2001, when he said that he had bought it from someone. Today he told investigating judge Ratko Scekic that he had done so at the instigation of Fazlic's friends in the police.
Caganic met Fazlic in 2001, when Fazlic was already retired, and knew that Fazlic and Katavic were friends because he had seen them together.
Katavic allegedly made fake passports for three Croatian fugitives, including Gotovina. He claims he did it at the instigation of the other two suspects in the fake Gotovina passport case, Fazlic and Marijan Pedisic, one of Gotovina's attorneys. They rejected the accusations and, unlike Katavic, are free pending trial.