Chief state prosecutor Mladen Bajic told Hina the Greek authorities were contacted via the Foreign Ministry and that Petrac was expected to be interviewed soon. He dismissed media allegations that he would travel to Greece to interview Petrac.
Bajic said the date had not been set yet when the Croatian investigators would visit Petrac in Greece, where he was sentenced to five months in jail for illegally entering the country and holding a fake passport when he was arrested in the port of Igumenica.
Bajic said the investigators would interview Petrac about "some things" unrelated to his role in a kidnapping in Croatia last year for which the Zagreb County Court sentenced him in absentia to six years in jail.
Bajic neither confirmed nor denied whether the investigators would interview Petrac about his alleged financing of fugitive Croatian General Ante Gotovina. Petrac is believed to be a strong link in the network of people helping the general wanted by the Hague war crimes tribunal.
One of Petrac's attorneys, Marijan Pedisic, told Hina the defence did not know when the Croatian investigators would visit Petrac in jail, but said Petrac's Greek attorney would be present.
Petrac was arrested in Greece on an Interpol warrant on August 31.