Testifying in the joint trial of generals Rahim Ademi and Mirko Norac before the Zagreb County Court, Gugic said that he had given the report, which he had compiled during his visit to the Lika region, to Lausic shortly after the military operation, stressing that there was a record of it.
"I don't remember presenting the report to Susak nor him requesting it urgently," Gugic said in response to questions put by defence counsel for the accused generals.
Earlier in the day, appearing as a witness in the same trial, Lausic said that Gugic had submitted the report to Susak, who then suspended the investigation.
"We didn't suspend the investigation because it never officially started," Gugic said, explaining that at the time he came to the Lika region most of the territory in which the Medak Pocket operation had taken place, had already been under UN control, so that no investigation could be carried out anymore. He added that he had not met either an investigating judge or a team of police investigators there.
The accused general Ademi objected to Lausic's testimony, saying that he had not spoken with Gugic when Lausic sent him to Gospic in 1993. Gugic confirmed this, emphasising that it was his assistant, military police battalion commander Mile Prpic, who had spoken with Ademi.
The Ademi-Norac trial is the first war crimes case to have been transferred to a Croatian court from the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague. The next hearing was scheduled for September 3.