ZAGREB, June 19 (Hina) - Attorneys for Miroslav Separovic, a former Justice Minister and head of the Croatian Intelligence Service (HIS), on Saturday issued a statement dismissing a statement made Friday by Interior Minister Ivan
Penic, who said that a search of Separovic's apartment had yielded 200 documents, which Separovic had allegedly kept after he was no longer HIS director. Separovic's attorneys Ante Madunic and Ivan Surjan claim that Penic spoke of a three times larger amount of documents than had been found in Separovic's apartment. The attorneys said that "after the search of the apartment and the confiscation of documents from Miroslav Separovic, authorised police officers issued appropriate certificates bearing no mark of a state or any other secret and stating the number and contents of the confiscated documents". The attorneys did not state the exact number of documents found
ZAGREB, June 19 (Hina) - Attorneys for Miroslav Separovic, a former
Justice Minister and head of the Croatian Intelligence Service
(HIS), on Saturday issued a statement dismissing a statement made
Friday by Interior Minister Ivan Penic, who said that a search of
Separovic's apartment had yielded 200 documents, which Separovic
had allegedly kept after he was no longer HIS director.
Separovic's attorneys Ante Madunic and Ivan Surjan claim that Penic
spoke of a three times larger amount of documents than had been
found in Separovic's apartment.
The attorneys said that "after the search of the apartment and the
confiscation of documents from Miroslav Separovic, authorised
police officers issued appropriate certificates bearing no mark of
a state or any other secret and stating the number and contents of
the confiscated documents".
The attorneys did not state the exact number of documents found in
the HIS safe in Separovic's apartment, which Separovic kept after
he was no longer holding the office of HIS director. By this
evening, Hina was not able to obtain the information on the number
of documents from Separovic's attorneys.
Madunic and Surjan also dismissed information presented at
yesterday's new conference by Penic's assistant, Zeljko Sancic,
who said that during the examination of contents of the HIS safe, a
document had been found marked "military secret", relating to the
period when Separovic was no longer HIS director.
Hina was unable to obtain an answer from Madunic and Surjan on
whether they believed that a document marked "military secret" had
been found in the HIS safe during the search of Separovic's
apartment.
(hina) rml