ZAGREB, Nov 14 (Hina) - President of the Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS) Drazen Budisa told Hina Tuesday he was aware of the testimony of Munib Suljic who claimed he had been ordered to kill Budisa. "I saw a document marked as
top secret, in which Munib Suljic names his hirers to assassinate me," Budisa said. He refused to go into details, since, he stressed, the document bore the markings of a state secret. However, the document did include an account of how Suljic was to have carried out the assassination, the weapon to be used, as well as the amount of money Suljic was to receive after the job. Budisa refused to say who made the document available for him to see. Asked whether it was correct that the plans for his murder had been made during the creation of the SDP-HSLS party coalition in July and August 1999, Budisa said "they had been made later". This week's issue of the "Nacional" weekly ran a
ZAGREB, Nov 14 (Hina) - President of the Croatian Social Liberal
Party (HSLS) Drazen Budisa told Hina Tuesday he was aware of the
testimony of Munib Suljic who claimed he had been ordered to kill
Budisa.
"I saw a document marked as top secret, in which Munib Suljic names
his hirers to assassinate me," Budisa said.
He refused to go into details, since, he stressed, the document bore
the markings of a state secret. However, the document did include an
account of how Suljic was to have carried out the assassination, the
weapon to be used, as well as the amount of money Suljic was to
receive after the job.
Budisa refused to say who made the document available for him to
see.
Asked whether it was correct that the plans for his murder had been
made during the creation of the SDP-HSLS party coalition in July and
August 1999, Budisa said "they had been made later".
This week's issue of the "Nacional" weekly ran a story about how
Suljic, currently in custody at the Zagreb municipal penitentiary
for extortion, had uncovered he had been hired to kill Budisa.
The paper said Suljic had been questioned by agents of the Agency
for the Protection of the Constitutional Order (SZUP), director of
the Croatian Intelligence Agency (HIS) Damir Loncaric, and had even
been visited by Justice Minister Stjepan Ivanisevic.
Interior Ministry spokesman Slavko Rako said the Ministry had "no
comment" on Nacional's claims.
Munib Suljic has been known to the public since 1992 when he and a
group of police reservists under Tomislav Mercep's command were
suspected of the murder of the Zec couple and their 12-year-old
daughter in Zagreb, as well as of the murder of Serb civilians in
Pakracka Poljana. In both cases he was released due to procedural
errors in the investigation.
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