ZAGREB COUNTY STATE PROSECUTOR RESIGNS

ZAGREB, April 14 (Hina) - Zagreb County's state prosecutor Krunoslav Canjuga confirmed to Hina on Monday he resigned to his post after chief state prosecutor Mladen Bajic told him earlier in the day that he would be suspended on Tuesday. #L# "I tendered my resignation when... Bajic told me he no longer trusted me and announced that he would suspend me tomorrow," said Canjuga. He said he told Bajic the suspension would be unnecessary because he did not wish to hold an office on which he was not trusted. Canjuga, therefore, tendered a written resignation. Canjuga said Bajic did not tell him why he no longer trusted him or the reasons for the suspension. He also said that tomorrow's press articles about said reasons were "media speculation". According to Jutarnji list daily's unofficial sources, the wiretapping of a Zagreb attorney recorded a telephone conversation involving Canjuga which mentioned the doctoring of files on people suspected of large-scale trafficking and the division of bribes. "As the county state prosecutor in Zagreb I did not alleviate any case, I only demanded more strictness," Canjuga is quoted in Jutarnji list as saying. Representatives of the interior ministry, the state prosecution and the Office for the Prevention of Corruption and Organised Crime today announced uncovering and preventing abuse of office and corruption in the public sector would be a priority for police and the state prosecution in the coming period. Bajic said there were grounds to suspect corruption in the public sector. (hina) ha