ZAGREB, May 10 (Hina) - Croatian police confirmed on Saturday they were keeping under surveillance six friends of fugitive Hague war crimes tribunal indictee Ante Gotovina, stating this was part of the usual measures police were
authorised to take when tracing a person for whom an arrest warrant had been issued.
ZAGREB, May 10 (Hina) - Croatian police confirmed on Saturday they
were keeping under surveillance six friends of fugitive Hague war
crimes tribunal indictee Ante Gotovina, stating this was part of
the usual measures police were authorised to take when tracing a
person for whom an arrest warrant had been issued. #L#
Said six persons' phones are not bugged, an interior ministry
spokesman told Hina commenting on "Search Measures and Activities
Plan", a document dating from February on the surveillance of six
persons as part of the search for General Gotovina which was
published by a daily today.
Police are not wire-tapping the phones of local officials in Zadar
either and their names are not mentioned in the aforementioned
document, said Zinka Bardic.
The document was confidential and an investigation is underway to
establish how it was leaked, she said, stressing that in looking for
Gotovina all police steps were taken in line with the law.
All the steps the police have taken in tracing Gotovina are based on
Article 177 from the Law on Criminal Procedure and are in keeping
with police powers in the investigation of criminal acts, including
helping a suspect who is at large, said Bardic.
This crime is not listed among those for which measures of secret
tailing and phone tapping may be applied, in case of which the Law on
Criminal Procedure stipulates the temporary restriction of
constitutional rights and freedoms, which may be enforced only on
the order of an investigating judge.
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