The two officials from Croatia were the last witnesses to give their testimonies in the trial. The questioning of all witness in the trial lasted several months. The trial chamber requested prosecutor John McNair and Jelavic's attorney Dragan Barbaric to prepare their closing statements and the date of their presentation will be set subsequently.
Answering questions by the defence and the prosecutor, Cosic said that he had been informed of the intention to set up Hercegovacka Banka in late 1997 by the then Croatian defence minister Gojko Susak. The Croatian Defence Council (HVO) had a bank account at Hercegovacka Banka into which funds given by Croatia as aid for Bosnian Croats were paid, Cosic said. He added that the money was transferred from Croatia to Bosnia-Herzegovina through Privredna Banka Zagreb.
Cosic added that none of the international officials he came in touch with or with whom he discussed relations between Croatia and Bosnia at the time had opposed this model of providing aid to Croats in the neighbouring country. The financial aid to Croats in Bosnia-Herzegovina was not directed into the budget of the Croat-Muslim entity, Cosic said, to which judge Carolyn Temin said that one of the more important issues in the trial was whether the funds should have been directed into the entity budget, and added that the trial chamber would issue its position on the matter later.
Witness Miljenko Galic, who was in charge of the finance and budget of the Croatian Defence Ministry, said that during the period covered by the indictment in 1998, funds totalling 1.271 billion kuna were set aside for Bosnian Croats in line with a decision by former defence minister Gojko Susak.
He explained that orders for the transfer of those funds were signed by Susak and several of his associates at the Defence Ministry. Galic claimed that Jelavic had never intervened with him or given any instructions regarding the payment of funds intended for Bosnian Croats into the HVO account at Hercegovacka Banka. He confirmed that it was only as late as 2000 that the first agreement between the Bosnian Croat-Muslim entity and Croatia regarding aid for Bosnian Croats was signed, adding that the agreement was signed at the request of the international community and the IMF.