Bajic said that the police had interviewed a large number of people in connection with the killings and that some of them had made a statement for the public prosecutor and the investigating judge.
The statement did not reveal any details of the steps that being taken by the Office of the Public Prosecutor or the police in this regard.
The killings were again brought to public attention by the Split-based Feral Tribune weekly, which said in its latest issue that the Office of the Public Prosecutor had received a witness statement about the arrests, torture and murders of Serb civilians in Osijek in the second half of 1991 and in 1992.
According to press reports, the witness alleged that orders for the murders were issued by independent member of the Croatian Parliament Branimir Glavas, who served as head of the National Defence Office in Osijek in the early 1990s. That person said he witnessed the murder of two civilians, and admitted to senior officials from the Office of the Public Prosecutor that he had personally participated in ill-treating civilians.
Glavas on Friday described the media reports as "a continuation of attempts by the state leadership to compromise him" and stressed that he was proud of everything he had done during the 1991-1995 Homeland War.
"My immediate superior was (current Parliament Speaker) Vladimir Seks, who at that time was chief of the crisis management centre for Slavonija and Baranja. He knew very well what was going on there, and if he thought or if he thinks that something that happened was against the law or in violation of the rules of conduct in time of war, it was his duty to respond," Glavas said.