DR KURJAK DENIES HE IS UNDER INVESTIGATION

ZAGREB, April 5 (Hina) - Speaking at a press conference on Friday, Chief-of-Staff of the Gynaecological and Obstetrics Ward of the Sveti Duh Hospital, Dr. Asim Kurjak, said that the police are not conducting any investigative proceedings against him relating to the apparent misuse of ovary banks and artificial insemination, or unlawful healing of septums (uterus alterations).#L# Referring to a conversation with the police director, Ranko Ostojic, Kurjak said that police had only received an anonymous call accusing him, however, the State Prosecutor did not instigate any criminal investigation nor had an investigative judge accepted any such request. Kurjak denounced claims in the media and a recent statement by Health Minister Andro Vlahusic that the police were conducting a investigation into accusations against Kurjak. "I abominantly deny slander published in 'Globus', 'Jutarnji list' and 'Slobodna Dalmacija'", Kurjak said, announcing charges against all the journalists involved in writing the articles about the commencement of investigative proceedings into the apparent abuse of ovary banks, that were published in these papers. Kurjak presented an entire series of documents, opinions by experts and medical associations which, as he said, prove that these accusations against him were fabricated and false. (hina) sp sb