The Ministry said in a press release on Friday that there was a bank account abroad that had been opened in 1999 and that it was used last time in 2001 by the government led by SDP leader Ivica Racan in the second stage of the privatisation of Croatian Telecom (HT).
The ministry said, among other things, that it was not true that there was no record of the existence of that account at the ministry.
Since the account was opened, reports on its state have been sent regularly to the State Audit Office, the ministry said.
An SDP member of parliament on Thursday accused the Ivo Sanader cabinet of intentionally failing to register the government's foreign bank accounts in order to use money in those accounts to bribe local councillors.
Ante Zigman, state secretary at the Finance Ministry, dismissed the accusations, saying that all bank accounts opened abroad had been listed in 2004 and that the amounts in those accounts were not secret.