The Croatian Foreign Ministry informed Hina about this telephone call immediately after it reported that it had received information about his disappearance.
"I just came back home to fetch his photo and take it to the ministry, and Jakov phoned me from Baghdad," the driver's father Petar Krpan told Hina on Thursday afternoon.
Petar Krpan said that he decided to report his son's disappearance on Wednesday evening after he watched a television broadcast on the engagement of Croatian drivers in Iraq, a country which the foreign ministry put on a list of states where it did not advise citizens to travel.
"My son told me that he will remain in Iraq for another seven days as there is now no possibility for his early return," P. Krpan said today.
He reiterated that he did not know the exact name of the company for which his son was working now, as he had just received that job before the trip to Iraq.
The father added that his son had already made two tours to Iraq in the last six months.
He reported the disappearance of his son after he had not heard from him for three weeks. The last time Jakov called the family was in early October when he phoned them from the Turkish-Iraqi border.