ZAGREB, Nov 14 (Hina) - Interior Minister Sime Lucin told parliament on Wednesday his ministry's intelligence service had not wiretapped any one journalist or politician after his coming into office early in 2000. This will be
established when a new interior minister comes into office, he said. There are no files on politicians at the Interior Ministry but there are traces indicating that some politicians were under surveillance, Lucin confirmed, adding these files probably were subjected to special treatment. He said former intelligence officials had told him some files had been transferred to the President's Office. Answering a question from Marin Jurjevic of the Social Democrats (SDP), Lucin said the persons on whom files were kept could see them within the next one or two months. Ljubo Cesic-Rojs of the opposition's Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) countered the minister's claim that the Constitution
ZAGREB, Nov 14 (Hina) - Interior Minister Sime Lucin told
parliament on Wednesday his ministry's intelligence service had
not wiretapped any one journalist or politician after his coming
into office early in 2000.
This will be established when a new interior minister comes into
office, he said.
There are no files on politicians at the Interior Ministry but there
are traces indicating that some politicians were under
surveillance, Lucin confirmed, adding these files probably were
subjected to special treatment. He said former intelligence
officials had told him some files had been transferred to the
President's Office.
Answering a question from Marin Jurjevic of the Social Democrats
(SDP), Lucin said the persons on whom files were kept could see them
within the next one or two months.
Ljubo Cesic-Rojs of the opposition's Croatian Democratic Union
(HDZ) countered the minister's claim that the Constitutional Order
Protection Service (SZUP) had not wiretapped politicians after the
January 2000 change of government, saying that some of his
telephone conversations had been tapped.
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