In a statement issued through the Croatian Journalists' Association (HND), Puljiz said that she did not possess information about and did not act against national security, and that POA agents had no reason to call her for an interview. She believes that her human rights were violated and has therefore decided to seek court protection.
A member of the Istrian Democratic Assembly (IDS) and the Parliament's Committee on Home Affairs and National Security, Damir Kajin, said the report of the Council for the Civil Control of Security Services read that the reason why POA had interviewed Puljiz was the fact that she was a friend of the Petrac family.
"I do not know Hrvoje Petrac and never had any contact with him," Puljiz said in her statement, adding that government spokesman Ratko Macek was falsely claiming that she was connected with Petrac.
Petrac is a businessman from Zagreb for whom the police have issued an arrest warrant for his involvement in the kidnapping of the son of retired general Vladimir Zagorec, and whom the media have connected with criminal circles in recent years.
Puljiz also said that she had never had any private contacts with the President's former national security advisor Zeljko Bagic, whom she contacted only while she was reporting about the work of President Stjepan Mesic.
The reporter believes that the Council for the Civil Control of Security Services, in its response to her complaint, should have established whether POA had had a justified reason to interview her and that POA should have previously sought her consent for the interview, of which she was not aware at the time.