ZAGREB, June 3 (Hina) - The Zagreb County Prosecutor has launched an investigation against and ruled month-long detention for Vinko Zuljevic-Klica (aged 43), who is suspected of killing Veselin Marinov (35) in a Zagreb bar last
week.
ZAGREB, June 3 (Hina) - The Zagreb County Prosecutor has launched an
investigation against and ruled month-long detention for Vinko
Zuljevic-Klica (aged 43), who is suspected of killing Veselin
Marinov (35) in a Zagreb bar last week. #L#
The investigation was launched by Zagreb County Court
investigating judge Kresimir Devcic, whom Zuljevic today told that
he shot Marinov in self-defence because Marinov had drawn his gun
and started shooting at him first.
The prosecution has proposed that 11 witnesses and expert witnesses
be questioned during the investigation.
Marinov, a Croatian citizen of Bulgarian origin, believed to be
linked to organised crime circles, was killed last Friday in "NBA"
bar at the junction of Zagreb's Heinzel and Vukovar streets.
Zuljevic killed him by firing several shots from his gun. Shortly
afterwards he turned himself in and admitted before an
investigating judge that he had shot at Marinov.
Like Marinov, Zuljevic, too, is believed to be linked with
organised crime. The media have reported that Zuljevic is a member
of a mob clan formerly headed by Vjekoslav Slisko, who was killed in
Zagreb's Cvjetni Square last year.
Judge Devcic told reporters last week's murder did not include any
elements of organised crime, adding that there was no reason for the
Office for the Prevention of Corruption and Organised Crime (USKOK)
to take it over.
According to the investigation request, the said incident is an
"ordinary murder", which was not committed as part of attempts to
conspire to organise a criminal organisation, Devcic said.
Declining to comment on this statement, USKOK acting director
Marinka Orlic told Hina that USKOK would definitely take over the
case. "It was agreed at the very beginning that the investigation
request would be submitted by Zagreb Deputy County Prosecutor,
because she was at the scene of the murder and was informed about it,
as well as that the case would be transferred to USKOK," she said,
explaining why the investigation request was filed by the Zagreb
County Prosecution and not USKOK.
Additional investigative activities regarding the circumstances
of and motives for Marinov's murder were agreed on with the police,
she added.
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