It was only after he arrived at USKOK offices that the minister realised that he had been mistaken for the 32-year-old Ivan Vrdoljak, a former Dinamo player and now a member of the football club Legia from Warsaw.
The police were to have interviewed the football player as part of the ongoing investigation into Mamic, but a police officer from the Police Directorate phoned the minister, informing him that he should come to USKOK offices to give a statement.
"So you are in Zagreb then? You're not in Wasaw?," the policeman asked the minister, who did not find the question odd because he frequently travels on business and he immediately went to the USKOK headquarters. Upon arriving there, he chanced on the USKOK deputy director and they realised then that the wrong Vrdoljak had been summoned.
The Police Directorate confirmed the mistake and apologised to the minister.
Zdravko and his son Mario Mamic, businessmen Sandro Stipancic and Igor Krota, and Croatian Football Federation executive director Damir Vrbanovic are suspected of having siphoned more than 10 million euros and 500,000 pounds sterling from Dinamo through off-shore companies since 2004.