The media received a copy of Sepic's lawsuit on Tuesday from his attorney Vladimir Gredelj. The lawsuit was addressed to the Office for the Suppression of Corruption and Organised Crime and the State Prosecutor's Office (DORH).
The latter said it had not received the lawsuit but believed it constituted pressure on judicial officials and the DORH so that no criminal proceedings should be initiated in case of possible crimes involving Derma.
The lawsuit suspects Bajic of inciting Loncar and other responsible people at Zagreb's County Prosecutor's Office to abuse office and powers and take bribes.
In 2001, charges were pressed against Sepic and three Zagreb Commercial Court judges for abuse of power in Derma's bankruptcy proceedings by borrowing about three million kuna from the bankruptcy estate which they never returned. They allegedly spent the money to renovate the building of the High Commercial Court, of which Sepic was president at the time.
Gredelj claims in the lawsuit that Loncar and her subordinates did not process the charges against Sepic promptly, which the law bound them to do, but did so five years later, on the eve of the election of a new High Commercial Court president, a position for which Sepic applied. Gredelj maintains that by doing so they damaged Sepic's honour and reputation and undermined his possibility of being elected.
The lawsuit also states that a request with the State Judicial Council that Sepic be stripped of immunity was filed at the most propitious moment to damage and discredit him in public.
Gredelj maintains that Bajic and the other prosecutors had no direct interest in Sepic's not being elected High Commercial Court president and that they, therefore, acted on the instructions of a third, unidentified person who might have bribed them.
Under the law on the State Prosecutor's Office, parliament's approval is necessary to press charges against the chief state prosecutor except if he or she is caught committing a criminal act which is punishable with five or more years' imprisonment, in which case the parliament speaker is informed.