ZAGREB, June 26 (Hina) - Police on Saturday took "Nacional" weekly's editor-in-chief Ivo Pukanic in for questioning, Zagreb police said in a statement Saturday. Police will file charges against Pukanic to the state attorney's office
for suspicion of having disclosed classified information. Earlier in the day, police searched Pukanic's flat looking for classified documents, in relation to articles on telephone tapping published in the weekly's latest two issues. In the search, five documents have been found which are held to be documents of Croatian intelligence services, representing a state secret and whose sections were published in the weekly, the police statement said. The police found no documents classified top secret inside the flat, Pukanic and his attorney Ivan Polan told reporters after the search. Prior to the search, Pukanic asked to see the search warrant, which he then read to the press.
ZAGREB, June 26 (Hina) - Police on Saturday took "Nacional"
weekly's editor-in-chief Ivo Pukanic in for questioning, Zagreb
police said in a statement Saturday.
Police will file charges against Pukanic to the state attorney's
office for suspicion of having disclosed classified information.
Earlier in the day, police searched Pukanic's flat looking for
classified documents, in relation to articles on telephone tapping
published in the weekly's latest two issues.
In the search, five documents have been found which are held to be
documents of Croatian intelligence services, representing a state
secret and whose sections were published in the weekly, the police
statement said.
The police found no documents classified top secret inside the
flat, Pukanic and his attorney Ivan Polan told reporters after the
search.
Prior to the search, Pukanic asked to see the search warrant, which
he then read to the press. The warrant says that Pukanic, as editor-
in-chief and author, published in articles documents on the alleged
tapping of the telephones of the President of the Republic and those
of his closest associates, and on the tapping of the telephone of
the selector of Croatia's soccer team Miroslav Blazevic.
(hina) lml