ZAGREB, April 26 (Hina) - The Social Democratic Party (SDP) club of deputies on Monday presented a number of objections to the government-sponsored bill on changes to the Penal Code, which it considers too "narrow" to improve the
efficiency of the judiciary in fighting the most serious forms of crime.
ZAGREB, April 26 (Hina) - The Social Democratic Party (SDP) club of
deputies on Monday presented a number of objections to the
government-sponsored bill on changes to the Penal Code, which it
considers too "narrow" to improve the efficiency of the judiciary in
fighting the most serious forms of crime.#L#
SDP member Ingrid Anticevic Marinovic said at a news conference that
the SDP's bill, which was also forwarded into parliamentary
procedure, was more complete and that the government's draft lacked
the most important changes.
This primarily refers to the lack of will to introduce harsher
penalties for white-collar crime and extend the status of limitations
for grave criminal acts, which may result in the expiry of the status
of limitations for all criminal acts committed in the process of
privatisation in the 1990s, Anticevic Marinovic said.
The SDP advocates harsher penalties for the gravest crimes, such as
murder and attack on a public official, including life imprisonment.
A member of the SDP club of deputies, Ivo Josipovic, objected that the
government also failed to define as a criminal act the glorification
of fascist, Nazi and other totalitarian ideologies and regimes.
(Hina) rml