ZAGREB'S SDP SLAMS EX-HDZ GOVERNMENT FOR LOSING 114 MLN KUNA

ZAGREB, April 23 (Hina) - The Social Democratic Party's (SDP) councillor in the Zagreb City Assembly, Zdravko Tomac, and the president of Zagreb's SDP branch, Milan Bandic, said Wednesday that individual responsibility for 114 million kuna (EUR15 million) deposited in the Komercijalna Bank Zagreb and other banks between 1995 and 2000 which were subsequently lost, would be established very soon. #L# At a news conference today, Tomac and Bandic relayed a message from Zagreb's SDP to people from the former government -- those in the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and those who transferred from this party to the newly established Croatian Bloc party (HB) -- that there would be no statute of limitations in the case of Komercijalna Bank Zagreb. Deputy Zagreb mayor, Bandic, said he was lately encouraged by actions by the Municipal Prosecution. He believes that there will be no statute of limitations for crimes. SDP city councillors do not accept the transfer of political responsibility. Tomac and Bandic stressed it was impermissible that those who were politically responsible for covering up the loss of 114 million kuna from the city's budget were today seeking their resignations because the Komercijalna Bank case was allegedly being statute- barred. (hina) lml sb