FINAL DECISION ON EX-POLICE CHIEF'S COMPLAINT EXPECTED NEXT WEEK

ZAGREB, May 11 (Hina) - The Council for the Civilian Supervision of Security Services on Tuesday discussed a complaint filed by former police chief Ranko Ostojic, while the final decision on the case should be made early next week, council chairman Vlatko Cvrtila said.#L# Cvrtila explained the council's role was to check if it had been possible to avoid tailing Ostojic, which the Counterintelligence Agency (POA) said had been okayed by the Supreme Court, and if in tailing Ostojic POA had violated his human rights. Late in April Cvrtila said that in tackling the case the Council for the Civilian Supervision of Security Services was taking into account Ostojic's claims that former POA chief Franjo Turek had unlawfully tapped his phones on suspicion that he was a CIA agent, as well as POA's claim that Ostojic had been tailed and his phones tapped in keeping with the law, based on a decision of the Supreme Court. Asked by reporters on that occasion if Ostojic's phones had been bugged because he was a CIA agent, Cvrtila said that was speculation and that no allegations to that effect had been made in POA's report. (Hina) ha