"As soon as the information has been checked, the police will inform the Chief State Prosecutor's Office of their findings, but before that we cannot say anything more about the case," Mehun told Hina.
Mehun would neither confirm nor deny details published by the Feral Tribune weekly and the Jutarnji List daily indicating that the police had identified the police officer who had helped Gotovina obtain a passport on another person's name.
Chief State Prosecutor Mladen Bajic would not comment on the reports either.
Citing Feral Tribune, Jutarnji List reported in its issue on Friday that Gotovina had fled Croatia in 2001 using a fake passport issued by the Zagreb Police Department. The passport was reportedly one of the 3,000 passports that disappeared from the Croatian Consulate-General in Mostar in 1999.
The media have reported that a group of Counterintelligence Agency (POA) agents working on the case of the runaway general have established how Gotovina was issued with the fake passport and who in the Zagreb Police Department was responsible for that. The latest discovery should soon be presented to the EU's task force evaluating Croatia's cooperation with the Hague tribunal as evidence of how serious Croatia is in its efforts to track Gotovina down.