TOMCIC TO SET UP ENQUIRY COMMISSION TO VERIFY ORTYNSKI'S CLAIMS

ZAGREB, April 18 (Hina) - Croatian parliament speaker Zlatko Tomcic on Thursday announced that he would recommend the setting up of an enquiry commission to verify statements by outgoing Chief State Prosecutor Radovan Ortynski about connections between organised crime and government institutions. #L# Tomcic made the proposal after the parliament rejected an earlier proposal by the HDZ for the parliament's Justice Committee to set up such an enquiry commission. "The parliament cannot compel the Committee to do any such thing but it can make suggestions", MP Mato Arlovic of the SDP said, explaining that the HDZ proposal was in contradiction to the Book of Rules. An exhaustive discussion in the parliament on whether or not HDZ's proposal was in line with the Rule Book, was cut short by Tomcic announcing that he would convene a meeting of the parliament's Presidency on Monday with party bench leaders where they would discuss setting up an enquiry commission that would be in keeping with the Law on Enquiry Commissions. Drago Krpina (HDZ), earlier in the day claimed that by rejecting to set up the enquiry commission the parliament was in fact attempting to conceal the truth about Ortynski's claims on Wednesday about connections between organised crime and government institutions. Krpina claimed that Ortyinski's claims cannot be verified by the government and now the parliament has made a similar decision because amongst them there were people Ortynski accused of connections with crime. (hina) sp sb