ZAGREB, Nov 3 (Hina) - The former owner of Glumina Banka, Marko Marcinko, who is serving a prison term for financial fraud, appeared in a Croatian television programme on Sunday, and his statements prompted responses from people he
talked about.
ZAGREB, Nov 3 (Hina) - The former owner of Glumina Banka, Marko
Marcinko, who is serving a prison term for financial fraud,
appeared in a Croatian television programme on Sunday, and his
statements prompted responses from people he talked about. #L#
Croatian Bloc (HB) leader Ivic Pasalic told a press conference in
Zagreb on Monday that Marcinko "unilaterally presented his defence
for an hour" and slandered him again.
That was "an unprecedented and evident example of state television
and state authorities operating together", Pasalic said.
Neven Barac, former director of Dubrovacka Banka, issued a
statement following the programme, dismissing Marcinko's
allegations against him and saying that the former Glumina Banka
owner would have a chance to present his evidence before Zagreb
Municipal Court in a lawsuit he had brought against him.
Marcinko told programme host Aleksandar Stankovic in a prison
hospital in Zagreb that Barac had extorted money from him and taken
it to Pasalic.
Barac said it was inconceivable for a public television network in a
civilised society to enable a convicted person to present untruths
without allowing the persons at whom they were directed to
comment.
Stankovic told Hina he believed that convicted persons also had
civil rights like everyone else.
Stankovic dismissed the statement by Pasalic that the programme
promoted the government of the Social Democratic Party (SDP). He
added that the election campaign had not officially started yet and
that until then he had "no obligation towards Pasalic, Barac, SDP or
anyone else".
(hina) vm sb