ZAGREB, May 13 (Hina) - Neither the government nor its ministers did or will interfere with the decisions of Croatia's judiciary, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader said at a government session on Thursday.
ZAGREB, May 13 (Hina) - Neither the government nor its ministers did or
will interfere with the decisions of Croatia's judiciary, Prime
Minister Ivo Sanader said at a government session on Thursday.#L#
The government would not dream of interfering with the judiciary's
decisions, let the rule of law function, Sanader said without
specifying what prompted this statement.
The statement can be interpreted in connection with former foreign
minister Mate Granic and the president of the Koncar Management Board,
Darinko Bago, who were arrested last Friday on bribery charges and
released on Monday because there was not enough evidence for founded
suspicion.
Zagreb's County Court on Wednesday agreed with its investigating judge
and turned down a request by the Office for the Prevention of
Corruption and Organised Crime to investigate Granic and Bago.
After analysing the file on which the investigation request was based,
the court decided the file does not point to the existence of founded
suspicion that Granic and Bago were involved in bribery.
Sanader stressed that the executive authority must not interfere with
the decisions of the judiciary.
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