ZAGREB, April, 19 (Hina) - The parliamentary commission of inquiry probing the sale of Zagreb's "Vecernji list" daily will not be dissolved, but could cease work pending a police investigation, Commission chairman Josko Kontic said
Wednesday.
ZAGREB, April, 19 (Hina) - The parliamentary commission of inquiry
probing the sale of Zagreb's "Vecernji list" daily will not be
dissolved, but could cease work pending a police investigation,
Commission chairman Josko Kontic said Wednesday. #L#
"We will not be dissolving the commission of inquiry, instead I will
suggest that we do not convene until the Interior Ministry
completes its investigation," Kontic told reporters.
He said he and Parliament president Zlatko Tomcic should listen to
tapes holding the conversation between former president Franjo
Tudjman and the then presidential internal affairs advisor, Ivic
Pasalic, about the secret purchase of Vecernji list for the
Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party.
The Commission should follow with an extraordinary closed-door
session to decide on freezing activities, he said.
Parliament president Zlatko Tomcic told reporters Croatian
President Stipe Mesic had pledged he would submit the tape
Wednesday to be compared to a transcript they had received
earlier.
"The content of the transcript leads to a very serious suspicion
that these actions had not been legal," Tomcic said, adding the
results of the police investigation would show more.
Only the Parliament can decide whether Pasalic's member of
parliament immunity should be rescinded.
The "Nacional" weekly published a transcript of the conversation
between Tudjman and Pasalic about the covert operation of the
purchase of Vecernji list, by which the newspaper with the biggest
circulation would be placed under the direct control of the HDZ.
Pasalic denied Tuesday that he had held a conversation with Tudjman
about the subject, and asserted the transcript of the conversation
published in Nacional had been fabricated.
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