An investigating judge of the Pula County Court, Ivica Stanic, and Istria County Chief Prosecutor Vlatko Nuic wrapped up the questioning of witnesses in the Macedonian capital. Present at the Skopje interrogations was also Hodak.
Boskoski is charged with the murder of the seven economic emigrants, who were allegedly killed in order to present Macedonia as an active participant in the war on terrorism. At the time of their murder, Boskoski was the interior minister. Current judicial authorities in Macedonia allege that he ordered the killing.
His lawyer added that none of about 20 witnesses who had been questioned in Skopje accused Boskoski.
Pre-trial proceedings against Boskoski are being carried out both in Skopje and the Croatian coastal city of Pula as Boskoski has dual Croatian and Macedonian citizenship.
Hodak said he was satisfied with the developments in Skopje and announced that he was going to lodge an appeal before the Croatian Constitutional Court and that he would ask the Pula County Court to release his client from custody.
Boskoski was arrested by the Croatian police in the village of Bale near Rovinj on 31 August on the basis of a warrant issued by the County Chief Prosecutor and in line with the agreement between Croatia and Macedonia on mutual legal assistance.
In compliance with the document regulating this kind of cooperation, Macedonia referred the Boskoski case to Croatia.
Asked by reporters to comment on the refusal of the other four indictees in the Rastanska Lozja case to be questioned by the Croatian investigating judge and prosecutor who arrived in Skopje for this purpose, Hodak said that they had refused to be questioned as the Macedonian Supreme Court banned their lawyers from attending the interrogations. The Croatian lawyer labelled this as an omission by the Macedonian Supreme Court which he said would affect more the position of the prosecution than the defence.