Lawyer Zvonimir Hodak told reporters that his colleague in the Macedonian capital Jagula Kunovska had presented to the tribunal's investigators a document, signed by Johan Tarculovksi, who denied Boskoski's involvement in the incident.
According to the statement Tarculovski gave in the presence of his lawyers, Boskoski, as soon as he heard of the conflict involving Macedonian paramilitary troops, ordered an investigation and the punishment of perpetrators.
Hodak assessed that Boskoski's interview with the tribunal's investigators was useful for his client. He added, however, that he was aware of a great problem given that Boskoski was in a specific position as a suspect and that his government in Skopje was discrediting him and trying to transfer him to the Tribunal in The Hague.
Boskoski has been in custody in Pula since the end of August. He is believed to be responsible for another case when, in his capacity as Macedonian Interior Minister, he ordered the killing of seven economic immigrants from Pakistan and India in Macedonia in 2002.
He is in a Croatian prison because he holds dual citizenship -- Croatian and Macedonian -- and was in Croatia when he was arrested.