Jelavic's attorney Dragan Barbaric, who previously started questioning Robinson, who is a witness for the prosecution, asked questions which referred exclusively to the year 1998.
He insisted on the fact that in 1998 the purpose of most payments from Croatia intended for Bosnian Croats was not specified, which he said was why the prosecution's allegation about Jelavic's responsibility for redirecting the funds was not true.
Assistance worth 872 million kuna was sent from Croatia to Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1998, of which some 200 million was given for pensions, disability allowances and social welfare in the Bosnian Croat army (the Croat Defence Council, HVO).
What remains unclear is what happened with the remaining 672 million, and Barbaric asked Robinson to state precisely what those funds, deposited into accounts in Hercegovacka Banka, had been spent on.
Robinson said that the bank's archives contained precise information on what the funds had been used for, but she added that she did not have the information with her and that she would submit it subsequently.
There is evidence about financial transfers to the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and some non-profit organisations, she said.
The attorney continued to insist on precise information, claiming that it was crucial for allegations about Jelavic redirecting the funds.
Prosecutor John McNair insisted that it was not irrelevant where the funds ended up regardless of the fact that their purpose was not specified.
The fact that the purpose of the funds was not specified does not mean that they should have been given to the HDZ, he said.
The prosecutor and the attorney spent a lot of time debating the semantics of the term capitalisation mentioned in the context of the fact that some of the money from Croatia was used to establish Hercegovacka Banka.
Attorney Barbaric said that the defence did not challenge the fact that some of the funds, totalling some six million euros, ended up in Hercegovacka Banka through a primary bond issue, but he insisted that this was only two percent of the entire sum.
Answering questions by Jelavic's attorney, Robinson said that she had not been able to check documents on payments to HVO members because they were not in the possession of the Defence Ministry of the Croat-Muslim Federation.
For the same reason it was not possible to check bills on the purchase of goods for the HVO, which was also financed with funds from Croatia.
The location of the disputed documents has not been established yet.
Asked explicitly by the defence attorney if there was any document linking Jelavic with the business operations of Hercegovacka Banka, Robinson said she knew only of one such document, a decision Jelavic signed on the opening of an HVO account in Hercegovacka Banka. She added that there was nothing dubious in the act itself.
During the cross-examination conducted by prosecutor McNair, Robinson explained that there had been an extremely unusual connection between the HVO and Hercegovacka Banka.
Bank commission on transfers between Privredna Banka Zagreb and Hercegovacka Banka ended up with the mediation of the HVO in the pockets of employees of the Mostar-based bank, she said.
The trial of Jelavic will continue with the testimonies of other witnesses for the prosecution.