ZAGREB, Oct 23 (Hina) - Croatian Justice Minister Ingrid Anticevic Marinovic said on Wednesday that she had no information about Split judge Slavko Lozina having put on probation in 1983 for fraud, as today's "Slobodna Dalmacija"
daily reports.
ZAGREB, Oct 23 (Hina) - Croatian Justice Minister Ingrid Anticevic
Marinovic said on Wednesday that she had no information about Split
judge Slavko Lozina having put on probation in 1983 for fraud, as
today's "Slobodna Dalmacija" daily reports. #L#
"The justice ministry does not have this information," the minister
said after talks with the country's chief prosecutor, Mladen
Bajic.
Anticevic Marinovic said she had learnt about Lozina's sentence
from the press. She added she would request the president of the
Split County Court, Igor Benzon, to ask judge Lozina about the
allegations and inform the ministry of his statement.
Slobodna Dalmacija reports that Lozina, known in the public as the
presiding judge in the "Lora" prison war crimes trial, was given a
year-and-a-half suspended sentence 19 years ago.
According to the daily, Lozina, at the time a magistrate in Vrgorac,
was accused of taking part in a fraud by which a person tried to
claim damages from the "Croatia osiguranje" insurance company for a
traffic accident which never occurred.
Lozina has dismissed the claims as false.
(hina) lml