Attorney Zeljko Olujic said at a hearing on Tuesday that Norac had never received any document containing the title Sector 1 or a document that would prove that a Sector 1 had been established.
Olujic expressed suspicion that a document on the establishment of the sector, read out today by Judge Marin Mrcela in the trial of Norac and another Croatian Army general, Rahim Ademi, was actually a forgery.
The attorney said he would explain his statement in greater detail in the course of the trial, "when the time is right".
Cedo Prodanovic, an attorney representing General Ademi, said that by making allegations of forgery Olujic was actually incriminating Ademi and that Norac was trying to shift responsibility onto Ademi.
The indictment, which charges the two generals with command responsibility, reads that Norac was commander of the Ninth Guard Motorised Brigade and of Sector 1, and that Ademi was acting commander of the Gospic Military District.
Today's hearing was dedicated to reading documents stated in the indictment which charges the two generals, in the first trial referred by the Hague war crimes tribunal to Croatia, with war crimes committed against Serb civilians and the excessive and random shelling of Serb villages.
The two generals followed the hearing calmly. As was the case with the first few hearings, Norac arrived in court from the penitentiary in Lipovica, where he is serving a 12-year prison sentence, while Ademi, who is not in custody, arrived in court in the company of his wife.
The reading of documents, which is part of the procedure of proposing evidence, will continue at the next two hearings. Next week, the first two witnesses, Ivan Jarnjak and General Mladen Markac, are expected to take the stand.
Markac's statement is still not certain, and his attorney Goran Mikulicic, who is representing him at the Hague war crimes tribunal, has asked if Markac can, as a person indicted by the tribunal which has banned him from making public statements, appear in court as a witness.
Attorneys for Norac and Ademi believe that Markac's testimony will be approved and that there is no reason why he should not appear in court.