ZAGREB, July 2 (Hina) - Mario Baljkas, the head of the analytical department of the Croatian Intelligence Service (HIS), suspended on suspicion of having revealed secret documents, on Thursday refused to complete the procedure of
leaving the office, accusing an assistant to the HIS head, Djurdja Susak, of not allowing that the take-over procedure be finished in line with previous agreement. Baljkas issued a statement on Thursday saying that "when we agreed upon a way for conducting the take-over and drew up documents on the matter in order to remove any doubt about legality of that act, Mrs. Djurdja Susak, an Assistant Head of the HIS, forbade such way of the take-over. When I was notified of it, I realised that the take-over would assume a form of caricature, and I declined to take part any longer in such acts and left the HIS building." Baljkas gave no further expla
ZAGREB, July 2 (Hina) - Mario Baljkas, the head of the analytical
department of the Croatian Intelligence Service (HIS), suspended
on suspicion of having revealed secret documents, on Thursday
refused to complete the procedure of leaving the office, accusing
an assistant to the HIS head, Djurdja Susak, of not allowing that
the take-over procedure be finished in line with previous
agreement.
Baljkas issued a statement on Thursday saying that "when we agreed
upon a way for conducting the take-over and drew up documents on the
matter in order to remove any doubt about legality of that act, Mrs.
Djurdja Susak, an Assistant Head of the HIS, forbade such way of the
take-over. When I was notified of it, I realised that the take-over
would assume a form of caricature, and I declined to take part any
longer in such acts and left the HIS building."
Baljkas gave no further explanation in relation to the above-
mentioned ban.
"It is one of attempts, and perhaps a fait accompli, to remove
evidence on illegal work of a part of intelligence services," as
well as to set him (Baljkas)up with adjusted evidence, the
suspended HIS employee added.
Baljkas said he had previously endured all "illegal decisions" in
connection with him, which were "completely unnecessary labelled
as official secret," and about which he did not inform the public.
But what happened to him on Thursday must not be kept secret for
several reasons, "first of all, for the personal protection of his
own integrity, and for a situation in which the country has found
itself due to problems in a part of the intelligence community."
That's why Baljkas first forwarded a letter to the Croatian
National Sabor internal policy and national security committee. He
also forwarded letters to the head of the Office for the National
Security (UNS) Ivan Jarnjak, the HIS head Tomislav Druzak, the
Ombudsman Ante Klaric, Interior Minister Ivan Penic, Justice
Minister Zvonimir Separovic, the County Court in Zagreb and the
municipal State Attorney's Office in Zagreb.
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