ZAGREB, march 26 (Hina) - Charges against a total of 90,350 people were filed with the Croatian State Prosecutor's Office last year, which is a 16 percent increase in relation to the year 2000, an annual report by State Prosecutor
Radovan Ortynski says, and concludes that in the past two years, crime in the country has significantly increased.
ZAGREB, march 26 (Hina) - Charges against a total of 90,350 people
were filed with the Croatian State Prosecutor's Office last year,
which is a 16 percent increase in relation to the year 2000, an
annual report by State Prosecutor Radovan Ortynski says, and
concludes that in the past two years, crime in the country has
significantly increased. #L#
Out of the 75,506 charges, county state prosecutions resolved
48,076 cases. Police and other state bodies have 16,702 charges
unresolved, and state prosecutions 7,728 cases, says the report.
State prosecutions have dismissed 11,939 filed charges, filed
8,251 requests for investigative proceedings, and issued 23,189
indictments.
Courts last year returned verdicts in 20,575 cases, six percent
more than in 2000. Guilty verdicts were returned for 16,758
indictees, and 3,817 were acquitted.
County state prosecutions filed complaints against 3,028 people.
Courts last year solved 2,325 complaints, of which they admitted
1,147, and dismissed 1,178.
The report on the work of the State Prosecution in 2001 should be
included in the parliamentary agenda in April, after which it will
be decided whether Ortynski will remain in office or will be
dismissed as the Croatian Democratic Union party requested last
November.
(hina) lml