PAVIC RELEASED FROM CUSTODY

ZAGREB, Dec 6 (Hina) - The dirty spy affair with third-grade newspapers has finished, co-owner and management board chairman of the Europa press Holding media company, Ninoslav Pavic, said Wednesday night after being released from the Remetinec penitentiary where he was held in custody for suspicion of collusion to commit a crime. #L# I think we shall soon see who stood behind all this and that the law- based state shall win, alluding at the Republika daily with the statement "third-grade newspaper". His attorney Vesna Alaburic said she expected the situation to end in this manner. "According to the legal situation, this was an expected development of events, and what is satisfactory to me is the assessment of the state prosecutor's office that there is not sufficient grounds for suspicion criminal acts had been committed," Alaburic said. She said she expected people in the Interior Ministry to be held accountable for not being capable of making the same assessment, although they are paid to make decisions on such matters. Liability will be sought for those who engaged special police forces to be present while regular police were searching flats and offices. A little more than an hour previously, Vinko Grubisic was released from custody. The two, along with five other persons, were apprehended on Monday under suspicion of having colluded with Miroslav Kutle and a person under the pseudonym Hrvoje Franjic (which the Republika daily claims to be that of a member of the Croatian Democratic Union, Ivic Pasalic), with the aim of taking over control over Croatian media. However, as the Zagreb County State Prosecutor's Office decided on Wednesday not to request official investigative proceedings due to insufficient evidence that crime had been committed, Pavic and Grubisic were released. The Interior Ministry tonight said in a statement they were continuing the enquiry. (hina) lml jn