ZAGREB, Jan 16 (Hina) - The Interior Ministry's white-collar crime department has filed charges in more than 16,000 cases of economic crime in the past two years. Out of the total, 11% of the cases were dropped, while the remaining
include 132 high-profile cases, Interior Minister Sime Lucin said in reply to MPs questions on Wednesday. The minister stated that the cost of criminal investigations was about 9.2 billion kuna, and not one of the cases had a court epilogue. He said he hoped wheels would be set in motion and results achieved. Milan Djukic of the Serb People's Party (SNS) asked Justice Minister Ingrid Anticevic Marinovic in which phase the drafting of a law regulating compensation for the consequences of terrorist actions in areas outside former war zones was. The minister said that the drafting of the law was in its final stage, and confirmed Djukic's claim that n
ZAGREB, Jan 16 (Hina) - The Interior Ministry's white-collar crime
department has filed charges in more than 16,000 cases of economic
crime in the past two years. Out of the total, 11% of the cases were
dropped, while the remaining include 132 high-profile cases,
Interior Minister Sime Lucin said in reply to MPs questions on
Wednesday.
The minister stated that the cost of criminal investigations was
about 9.2 billion kuna, and not one of the cases had a court
epilogue. He said he hoped wheels would be set in motion and results
achieved.
Milan Djukic of the Serb People's Party (SNS) asked Justice
Minister Ingrid Anticevic Marinovic in which phase the drafting of
a law regulating compensation for the consequences of terrorist
actions in areas outside former war zones was.
The minister said that the drafting of the law was in its final
stage, and confirmed Djukic's claim that numerous citizens, unable
to obtain indemnity, had complained to the European Human Rights
Court. This is a consequence of somebody's negligence, because of
which Croatia will suffer great material loss, she said.
The fact that Djukic posed his question in fluent Serbian provoked
MP Ivo Loncar, who warned that the official language in Croatia was
Croatian, and that Djukic was "violating the Constitution". Loncar
requested the parliament speaker to "find him an interpreter or
have Djukic speak in English."
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