"I don't know everyone who used forged and stolen passports. I must say that we didn't discuss that at the National Security Council (VNS), but if it's true that there were 3,000 such passports, it would be good if at its next session the VNS was also informed of who received those passports, who was in charge of them and where they are appearing," Mesic told Croatian reporters covering his trip to Norway.
"It's a big problem," he said, adding that he did not know if Gotovina had used one of those passports but that he would raise the question at the next VNS session.
Citing Feral Tribune weekly, Jutarnji List daily said today that Gotovina fled Croatia in 2001 with a fake passport issued by the Zagreb police. The passport was allegedly one of 3,000 gone missing from the general consulate in Mostar, Bosnia in 1999.