ZAGREB, May 18 (Hina) - Croatian Parliament President Vlatko Pavletic, Justice Minister Zvonimir Separovic, and Supreme Court President Marijan Ramuscak on Tuesday met for talks on the situation in the judiciary. Pavletic said the
most serious problem in the Croatian judiciary was the large number of unsolved cases. He stressed the need for speedier work of the courts, particularly as regards economic cases. Minister Separovic said not all courts were slow in dealing with cases. He pointed to the problem of court debts, which amount to more than US$14.3 million. This problem cannot be solved without help from the Government, he added. The judges should first deal with cases concerning economic crimes, which the state leadership itself has already warned about. Separovic expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that the State Attorney's Office had given up the prosecution of Nada Sakic. S
ZAGREB, May 18 (Hina) - Croatian Parliament President Vlatko
Pavletic, Justice Minister Zvonimir Separovic, and Supreme Court
President Marijan Ramuscak on Tuesday met for talks on the
situation in the judiciary.
Pavletic said the most serious problem in the Croatian judiciary
was the large number of unsolved cases. He stressed the need for
speedier work of the courts, particularly as regards economic
cases.
Minister Separovic said not all courts were slow in dealing with
cases.
He pointed to the problem of court debts, which amount to more than
US$14.3 million. This problem cannot be solved without help from
the Government, he added.
The judges should first deal with cases concerning economic crimes,
which the state leadership itself has already warned about.
Separovic expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that the State
Attorney's Office had given up the prosecution of Nada Sakic.
Sakic was extradited to Croatia by Argentina last year on suspicion
that she had committed war crimes while serving at the Ustashi
concentration camp of Stara Gradiska during World War II. However,
due to lack of evidence, the State Attorney's Office this year had
to give up the case.
Separovic expects that the new evidence, submitted to Croatia by
the Simon Wiesenthal Centre director Ephraim Zuroff would enable
the renewal of the proceedings.
Croatia will not extradite Fikret Abdic to Sarajevo, said Separovic
speaking of the "sensitive" Abdic case.
Abdic, a former member of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency and a
Croatian citizen, has been indicted by the BH authorities for war
crimes.
Separovic said Croatia would request the United States that priest
Momcilo Djujic, a Chetnik leader from the Knin area (southern
Croatia) from World War II, be extradited so that he could be tried
for war crimes.
The Justice Minister also said that Croatia would repeat its
request to the United States for Zvonko Busic, who is serving his
sentence in the United States for hijacking a plane, to continue
serving his sentence in Croatia.
Supreme Court Ramuscak said the main priority of the judiciary was
to solve more than one million cases, which would be followed by the
reorganisation of the judiciary and the improvement of the
financial situation of employees.
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