ZAGREB, April 23 (Hina) - An investigation lead into an agent of the former Yugoslavia's former secret service, Vinko Sindicic, has been completed, and the file is to be submitted to the Zagreb County State Attorney's Office next
week. The Attorney's Office will decide on issuing an indictment according to information in the file, Zagreb County Court investigative judge Vera Polak-Presecki said in Zagreb on Friday. Sindicic is suspected of killing a Croatian political emigrant Bruno Busic in Paris in 1978, by order of the former Yugoslav secret service. Having served a prison term in Scotland for attempted murder of emigrant Nikola Stedul in Glasgow, Sindicic was extradited to Croatia in mid-November last year, at the request of the Croatian Justice Ministry. At the start of the investigation, Sindicic dismissed the accusation that he had killed Bruno Busic. Some thirty witnesses, mostly former Yugoslav secret service a
ZAGREB, April 23 (Hina) - An investigation lead into an agent of the
former Yugoslavia's former secret service, Vinko Sindicic, has
been completed, and the file is to be submitted to the Zagreb County
State Attorney's Office next week.
The Attorney's Office will decide on issuing an indictment
according to information in the file, Zagreb County Court
investigative judge Vera Polak-Presecki said in Zagreb on Friday.
Sindicic is suspected of killing a Croatian political emigrant
Bruno Busic in Paris in 1978, by order of the former Yugoslav secret
service.
Having served a prison term in Scotland for attempted murder of
emigrant Nikola Stedul in Glasgow, Sindicic was extradited to
Croatia in mid-November last year, at the request of the Croatian
Justice Ministry.
At the start of the investigation, Sindicic dismissed the
accusation that he had killed Bruno Busic. Some thirty witnesses,
mostly former Yugoslav secret service agents were questioned in the
investigation process.
If the County State Attorney's Office issues an indictment and the
court pronounces him guilty, Sindicic could face up to years in
prison.
(hina) lml