On December 11 last year Glavas's lawyer Drazen Matijevic attended a hearing in the so-called Sellotape Case, which concerns the alleged murder of Serb civilians by the Drava river in Osijek in 1991, when a witness said that police officers Vladimir Faber, Dinko Piric and Vjeko Tapsanji had been trying to talk him into giving false testimony against Glavas, who is one of the seven suspects in the case.
"Since I was in a serious state in hospital at the time, my defence counsel brought charges as a citizen whose duty it is to report an offence that is subject to prosecution ex officio," Glavas said through his attorney who filed the charges.
Glavas wrote that the charges had been rejected by the Osijek Municipal Prosecutor's Office on January 31, adding that this was why he was now pressing the charges again.
At the December 11 hearing the witness said that the three police officers had asked him to testify against Glavas, offering him money and a move to Australia together with his family. The damage caused by such behaviour of the police is immeasurable, particularly in the light of Croatia's efforts to join the European Union, when it has to prove that it cares about the rule of law, Glavas said.