ZAGREB, Jan 30 (Hina) - The Zagreb County Prosecutor's Office said on Wednesday it would decide about the prosecution of some participants in the Croatian Television broadcast "Latinica - Justice in Croatia" and submission of requests
for disciplinary proceedings with the Croatian Bar Association once additional information on statements made by participants in the broadcast was gathered. Acting Zagreb County Prosecutor Krunoslav Canjuga said in a statement today said measures would be authorised by Chief State Prosecutor Radovan Ortynski. Additional facts must be collected so that it could be established if there are elements for the processing of some persons who participated in the programme due to suspicion that they committed the criminal act of exerting pressure on judicial officials, Canjuga said. Canjuga says that statements made by "Nacional" weekly reporter Srecko Jurdana, Zagreb attorney
ZAGREB, Jan 30 (Hina) - The Zagreb County Prosecutor's Office said
on Wednesday it would decide about the prosecution of some
participants in the Croatian Television broadcast "Latinica -
Justice in Croatia" and submission of requests for disciplinary
proceedings with the Croatian Bar Association once additional
information on statements made by participants in the broadcast was
gathered.
Acting Zagreb County Prosecutor Krunoslav Canjuga said in a
statement today said measures would be authorised by Chief State
Prosecutor Radovan Ortynski.
Additional facts must be collected so that it could be established
if there are elements for the processing of some persons who
participated in the programme due to suspicion that they committed
the criminal act of exerting pressure on judicial officials,
Canjuga said.
Canjuga says that statements made by "Nacional" weekly reporter
Srecko Jurdana, Zagreb attorney Ante Nobilo, and an HTV journalist,
who covered a trial of Zagreb mobsters, are false.
He considers comments on Ortynski's work and that of the State
Prosecution an act of pressure on judicial officials.
The statement reminds that the Penal Code envisages sentences of
between six months to five years in prison or fines if views on how a
judicial official should decide are made in public before the court
has made the final ruling.
Justice Minister Ingrid Anticevic Marinovic refused to comment on
the intention of the State Prosecution to collect additional facts
on the statements of the guests in the programme.
Speaking to reporters at a rally of the Social Democratic Party
(SDP) this evening, the minister, who participated in the
programme, said the programme contained elements of pressure on
judicial officials and added that the former HDZ-led authorities
were the most responsible for the inefficient judiciary.
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