ZAGREB, May 6 (Hina) - The Council for the Civilian Control of Intelligence Agencies will not today discuss the case of a former police chief, Ranko Ostojiic, as it is still collecting all pertinent data in order to take a stand on
the matter, the Council's chairman, Vlatko Cvrtila, said before the beginning of the Council's session on Thursday afternoon.
ZAGREB, May 6 (Hina) - The Council for the Civilian Control of
Intelligence Agencies will not today discuss the case of a former
police chief, Ranko Ostojiic, as it is still collecting all pertinent
data in order to take a stand on the matter, the Council's chairman,
Vlatko Cvrtila, said before the beginning of the Council's session on
Thursday afternoon.#L#
Cvrtila explained that the Council was checking all the elements of
the case. Ostojic claims that a former chief of the Croatian
Counter-Intelligence Agency (POA), Franjo Turek, had unlawfully
ordered that Ostojic be monitored and that his telephones be bugged as
Turek believed that Ostojic was an agent of the CIA.
Cvrtila recently said that Ostojic had obtained information from POA,
at his own request, that some measures were taken in his case, in
compliance with a decision of the Supreme Court, and that those
measures were discontinued in the meantime.
Asked by reporters whether Ostojic had been monitored for being a CIA
agent, Cvrtila said today that this was only speculation and that he
had not seen such allegations in a report submitted by POA.
(Hina)