ZAGREB, March 17 (Hina) - Croatian police are still searching for Hrvoje Petrac, but no international arrest warrant has been issued yet, Interior Ministry spokesman Zlatko Mehun told Hina on Wednesday following a meeting of
representatives of the police, the Office for the Prevention of Corruption and Organised Crime (USKOK) and the Office of the Public Prosecutor.
ZAGREB, March 17 (Hina) - Croatian police are still searching for
Hrvoje Petrac, but no international arrest warrant has been issued
yet, Interior Ministry spokesman Zlatko Mehun told Hina on Wednesday
following a meeting of representatives of the police, the Office for
the Prevention of Corruption and Organised Crime (USKOK) and the
Office of the Public Prosecutor.#L#
The Interior Ministry said on Tuesday that Petrac was wanted on
suspicion of involvement in the recent abduction of General Vladimir
Zagorec's 17-year-old son.
Mehun said that today's meeting coordinated further activities and
that it also discussed media reports about the case.
Mehun would not speculate to what extent the publication of documents
by the media threatened the investigation, but noted that the
documents were made public when Petrac was most probably no longer in
Croatia and was beyond the reach of the Croatian police.
The police arrested six suspects in the kidnapping of Tomislav
Zagorec, including Hrvoje Petrac's son Novica. Three members of the
organised crime ring set up abduction purposes are still on the run.
The USKOK and the police claim that the organised crime ring,
established by fugitive suspect Ivan Matekovic, planned to kidnap the
children of some other Croatian business people.
An investigation into the nine-member group is under way, and a court
has issued an order that those arrested be remanded in custody.
(Hina) vm sb